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Originally Posted by north 42
Windsor, while the city proper is technically not on Lake Erie, it’s metro is, and as of this year, it’s metro now includes all of Essex County. So that is a metro of about 425K (2021 estimate) on the north shore of Lake Erie.
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good point. detroit/windsor is the major lake city for the western end of lake erie, it just happens to be located ~15 miles up a major navigable river instead of
directly on the lakeshore itself.
similarly, the two sault ste. marie's are not
directly on lake superior itself either, but rather ~5 miles downstream from the lake on the st. mary's river where the falls are, yet everyone considers them "lake superior cities" without question.
so 15 miles vs. 5 miles. when talking about major navigable rivers like the detroit river or the st. mary's river, that's not really much of a difference at all.