LaSalle, Ontario

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official_name = Town of LaSalle, Ontario
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_type1 = Province
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name = Canada
subdivision_name1 = Ontario
subdivision_name2 = Essex
leader_title = Mayor
leader_title1 = Governing body
leader_title2 = Member of Parliament
leader_title3 = Provincial Representative
leader_name = Gary Blaxter
leader_name1 = LaSalle Town Council
leader_name2 = Jeff Watson (CONS)
leader_name3 = Bruce Crozier (LIB)
established_title = Incorporated
established_date = 1991
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area_land_km2 = 65.25
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population_total = 25285
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population_density_km2 = 387.5
population_density_sq_mi = 1003.6
timezone = Eastern (EST)
utc_offset = -5
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LaSalle is a town in Essex County, Ontario. It is located on the Detroit River, south of the City of Windsor. LaSalle, along with Windsor, is the oldest French settlement area in Southwestern Ontario, and the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in Canada west of the Quebec border. The town was named for explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. Now considered to be a bedroom community of Windsor, LaSalle is often cited as an example of urban sprawl where tracts of Canada's most valuable agricultural land have been developedFact|date=March 2007. It is a part of the Windsor Census Metropolitan Area and includes Fighting Island, in the Detroit River at its western side, an island that is privately owned by the world's largest chemical company, BASF.

One of LaSalle's biggest events is the annual [http://www.lasallestrawberryfestival.com/ Strawberry Festival] , which takes place on the first weekend in June.

In LaSalle, most teenagers attend either Sandwich Secondary School or St. Thomas of Villanova Catholic Secondary School. The attendance to both is relatively close in numbers.

LaSalle also has its own small but growing bicycle trail network, named the "LaSalle Trail", which links up to neighbouring Windsor, Ontario's own "Windsor Trail" network, allowing people to ride from Sandwich Secondary School all the way to Windsor's Riverfront Trail. The town has also expressed interest and intentions to connect LaSalle (and indirectly, Windsor) to the Chrysler Canada Greenway by wanting to construct a link to the Trans-Canada Trail near Oldcastle, Ontario.

References

* [http://www12.statcan.ca/english/profil01/CP01/Details/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=3537034&Geo2=PR&Code2=35&Data=Count&SearchText=LaSalle&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=35&B1=All&Custom= Community Profile: LaSalle, Ontario; Statistics Canada]

External links

* [http://www.town.lasalle.on.ca/ Town of LaSalle website]
* [http://www.lasallecultureandrecreation.ca/ LaSalle Culture and Recreation - LaSalle's Parks and bike trails website]
* [http://www.tuscanyoaks.com/trails.aspx Tuscany Oaks subdivision's website on the LaSalle Trail network]

Canadian City Geographic Location (8-way)
Northwest = Detroit, Michigan
North = Windsor
Northeast = Windsor/Tecumseh
West = Ecorse, Michigan/Wyandotte, Michigan
Centre = LaSalle, Ontario
East = Tecumseh
Southwest = Grosse Ile, Michigan
South = Amherstburg
Southeast = Amherstburg
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