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The Canada Day long weekend will bring the Hiram Walker 206th Birthday Celebration to Windsor’s historic Walkerville neighbourhood. In 2016, in honour of
Article content City hall is in a rush to construct a new parkette in Old Walkerville — to showcase the “incredible” $300,000 Hiram Walker sculpture that’s been sitting in storage for three years — so it’s completed by the whisky baron’s July 4th birthday. “We’re planning, as soon as it’s approved by council, to be full steam ahead — send it out for tender and get it built,” Heidi Baillargeon, Windsor’s manager of parks development, said Tuesday. A report on the Hiram Walker Parkette goes to city council on Monday. We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
A new parkette paying tribute to Hiram Walker is in the works for Riverside Drive and Devonshire Road. The planned parkette will be home to the life-sized bronze statue of Hiram Walker standing on top of six whiskey barrels. Plans for the statue were first announced in July 2016, and the original idea was to place it in a new roundabout at the intersection, but a study of the roadway called for a traffic signal instead of the planned roundabout. Article Continues Below Local Sponsor Message The statue depicts Mr. Walker walking from the Distillery to the town of Walkerville with plans under h...