Windsor

Windsor is perhaps best known for its ultra-modern Domtar fine paper plant. Apart from the Abenaki camps in this area between 1600 and 1700, it was unpopulated until the dawn of the 19th century. Around 1800, Governor General Prescott granted a tract of land to Joseph Brown to thank him for his service to the Crown. In 1876, when French-Canadian colonist Michel Cloutier acquired land, a rift grew between Francophones and Anglophones, with one side locating in the Township municipality and the other in the village of Windsor Mills. The latter was elevated to town status in 1899, and took its current name in 1914. The name springs from the village of Berkshire, where one might admire Windsor Castle (built around 1344 at the request of King Edward III). While the bulk of Windsor’s economy is built on the pulp and paper industry and textile manufacturing, there are also some worthy attractions. Thisread more > includes the Poudrière de Windsor, which bears witness to the manufacturing of black explosive powder in Canada around 1864.