Amherstburg
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thumb|right|Dalhousie St. between Murray and Richmond Sts. thumb|Main Street, Amherstburg, 1865. Amherstburg is a town near the mouth of the Detroit River in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. In 1796, Fort Malden was established here, stimulating growth in the settlement. The fort has been designated as a National Historic Site.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Amherstburg
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town (lower-tier)
- Settlement.image_skyline
- amherstberg ontario sandwich street.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- Sandwich St. at Richmond St
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag of Amherstburg, Canada.svg
- Settlement.flag_size
- 150x725px
- Settlement.image_seal
- Amherstburg_Coat_of_Arms.svg
- Settlement.seal_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- CAN ON Essex#Canada Southern Ontario
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
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- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Canada
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Ontario
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Essex
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- MPP
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Essex County
- Population
- 2759
- Area
- 71.66
- Elevation
- 181
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Shares border with
- LaSalle
- Official website
- www.amherstburg.ca/en/index.aspx
- Image
- Amherstberg ontario sandwich street.JPG
- Dialing code
- 226
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- Commons category
- Amherstburg
- described at URL
- visitwindsoressex.com/amherstburg
- postal code
- N9V
- inception
- 1878-00-00
- social media followers
- 3274
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thumb|right|Dalhousie St. between Murray and Richmond Sts. thumb|Main Street, Amherstburg, 1865. Amherstburg is a town near the mouth of the Detroit River in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. In 1796, Fort Malden was established here, stimulating growth in the settlement. The fort has been designated as a National Historic Site.
The town is approximately south of the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan, facing Wyandotte, Grosse Ile Township, Brownstown Charter Township, Trenton, and Gibraltar, Michigan. It is part of the Windsor census metropolitan area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amherstburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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