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Windsorites are proud of their pizza — and a new business in Calgary hopes to show residents of Stampede City why pizza done the Windsor way is the best way.

“We really wanted to pay tribute to Windsor,” said Carly Labadie, co-owner of the newly opened Windsor Pizza Co.

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in southeast Calgary. “We wanted it to be known: This is Windsor pizza.”

The small pizza delivery shop has made Windsor its marketing hook — from the distinctive manner that pies are prepared to the Ambassador Bridge in its logo.

Windsor Pizza Co.

Labadie, 31, said she and co-owners Beau and Paul Bernard all hail from Windsor-Essex, and the Bernard brothers both worked at Windsor pizza shops in their youth. “I think Paul worked at Naples, and Beau worked at a few different ones (in Windsor),” she said.

Co-owner Laura Grossi is the shop’s only manager without Rose City ties.

For Labadie, who moved to Calgary in 2013, the motivation to start a Windsor-themed pizza business was simple: She wanted to eat Windsor pizza.