As to why housing costs are so high - cost of new builds drives higher prices for existing housing.  The assumption that the lumber prices alone should lead to lower housing prices isn’t true. There are other factors such as labour costs, developer charges, building permits, etc. Building is not a precise science, it is an art.  The application of new types and grades of materials requires highly skilled labourers.  Changes in the building code are also a factor. Building has

Uncertain times are nothing new for Amherstburg.  The area was initially settled by merchants following the military when it left Detroit in 1796 to establish Fort Amherstburg (later Fort Malden). The Town was the centre of activity in Essex County.  Prosperity lasted until 1846 when Great Britain abolished colonial preferences thereby causing a depression in Canada.  Prosperity returned in 1854 when Canada negotiated the Reciprocity Treaty with the United States enabling goo

There is a rumour in town about providing the newer area of the King’s Navy Yard Park (former Duffy’s property) with an Indigenous name, in which case it must be remembered that the area was Huron/Wendat territory of the Wyandot Nation of Anderdon, whose presence was shown by the Wyandot cemetery at Front Road North and County Road 10, the Assumption Parish (1740)  originally known as “Mission of Our Lady of the Assumption among the Hurons,” the Huron Church Road next to Assu