Walker Road is one of the busiest roads in

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. It has an average annual daily traffic (AADT) level of 32,000 cars per day at the

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crossing.

History

The road is named after

Hiram Walker Hiram Walker (July 4, 1816 – January 12, 1899) was an American entrepreneur and founder of the Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Walker was born in East Douglas, Massachusetts, and moved to Detroit in 1838. He p ...

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. The CP Rail crossing where Walker Road meets Grand Marais Road and the

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Windsor plant is the location where the Tornado of 1946 cut through and reached its peak intensity ( F4). Today, the road is very busy, servicing mainly industries and businesses along the road, with an

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with E.C. Row Expressway. It begins at the Hiram Walker distillery and continues southerly past the

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plant and the

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. Outside the City of Windsor, Walker Road was designated as a " Windsor Suburban Road", with its shield remaining the same, but with Windsor Suburban replacing "Essex County". In 1998, the Windsor Suburban Roads Commission was disbanded and the road reverted to Essex County.

In the field

At the

Highway 401 King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one, is a controlled-access 400-series highway in the Canadian prov ...

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(which is the

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s for Windsor), the road gains the designation of Essex County Road 11. It does not have direct access to Highway 401, but it does intersect with Provincial Road (County Road 46) which has an interchange with Highway 401 approximately 500 metres southeast of Walker Road. The road is dead straight for 17 km, before swinging southeast (concurrent with County Road 18) towards

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, its final terminus.

History

In the field

See also

Former Provincial Highways