Shaping a community vision for a national urban park in Windsor

“You have to feel the wind, hear the leaves, witness the life here — that’s when the stories of this place truly come alive.” — Clint Jacobs, Indigenous knowledge connector, UWindsor professor, and senior advisor to the president on Indigenous initiatives.

Windsor is on the path to becoming home to Canada’s next National Urban Park with efforts rooted in connection to land, knowledge, and community, and Canada will see multiple new national urban parks created in the coming years. Led by the UWindsor National Urban Park Hub (UW-NUPH), a collaboration between researchers Anneke Smit, director and founder of Centre for Cities, Clint Jacobs, senior advisor to the UWindsor president on Indigenous initiatives, and Catherine Febria Healthy Headwaters Lab, researchers and community partners are working together to shape the future of the Ojibway National Urban Park and the other parks to come.

UWindsor teams are working to advance reconciliation, protect biodiversity in the city, and explore how to ensure urban parks help reconnect people with nature.

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