Hiram Walker, all those years ago, planned this area to be the perfect little town. Perfection, of course, isn’t attainable, even if only as an ideal - and yet, I’d like to think he’d be damn proud of what this place has become.

The streets are filled with businesses where you’re just as likely to be helped by the owner as any other employee. Not to mention, the products on offer are sourced locally, and often bought by locals as well.

I’ve been to an untold amount of areas that have been gentrified and, in the process, have lost their identity, but somehow, Walkerville has managed to grow and amplify their history and identity in that process.

To be honest, this is the content I love writing. The content that tells a story worth telling, about a place worth visiting. The more I travel the more I realize that it isn’t the enormous churches, and the monstrous museums that steal my heart.

It’s the places where I can go and sit at the bar and be served good beer from the hands of the owner. It’s places where I can get a cup of coffee and the server knows where the beans came from and why that matters. It’s places where I can visit a store that wasn’t there ten years ago, but will likely be there forever more.

So go and forge your own path there. My guess is, it’s only going to get better and better and I, for one, will be back to test that theory.

I want to humbly thank Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island (TWEPI) and Ontario’s Southwest for hosting me as media. All opinions are completely my own. Below, I’d love to know in the comments if you’ve visited the this city or region before, or just your general thoughts! I personally respond to each and every comment!