His transportation network moved smuggled liquor from the rum-runners of the East Coast, The Purple Gang in Detroit, who brought liquor in from Canada, with help from Belle River native Blaise Diesbourg, also known as " King Canada ," and local production which came from Midwestern moonshine operations and illegal breweries.

Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, have, since the 1950s, celebrated both Dominion or Canada Day and the United States ' Independence Day with the International Freedom Festival ; a massive fireworks display over the Detroit River, the strait separating the two cities, is held annually with hundreds of thousands of spectators attending.

About this time, an organization called the " Thistle Club " was founded and, curling being a winter sport, was played when the ice was suitable on the Detroit River at the foot of Joseph Campau ; on the bay ; and at the old Recreation Park.

Hiram Walker's distillery in Windsor, Ontario, directly across the Detroit River from Detroit, Michigan, easily served bootleggers using small, fast smuggling boats.

The Detroit River is a river in the Great Lakes system.

The Detroit River has served an important role in the history of Detroit and is one of the busiest waterways in the world.

When Detroit underwent rapid industrialization at the turn of the 20th century, the Detroit River became notoriously polluted and toxic.

There are numerous islands in the Detroit River, and much of the lower portion of the river is incorporated into the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge.

The Detroit River is designated an American Heritage River and a Canadian Heritage River — the only river to have this dual designation.

The Detroit River flows for from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie.

However, today, the Detroit River is rarely referred to as a strait, because bodies of water referred to as straits are typically much wider.

The Detroit River is only wide.

The Detroit River starts on an east to west flow but then bends and runs north to south.

The deepest portion of the Detroit River is deep in the northern portion of the river.

The watershed basin for the Detroit River is approximately.

Its largest tributary is the River Rouge in Michigan, which is actually four times longer than the Detroit River and contains most of the basin.

These clubs became the Granite Club, and in 1885, the present Detroit Curling Club was organized.

Following the completion of the Erie Canal in 1817, which opened up easier travel to Lake Erie from the East Coast of the United States, the Detroit River became a heavily traversed route for settlers traveling to northern Michigan, and Detroit, as well, experienced a sudden increase in population.

Detroit became the center of a new industry known as rum-running, which was the illegal smuggling or transporting of alcoholic beverages or any other illegal drinks during Prohibition.

Detroit became the leader in the illegal importation of alcohol, which found its way all over the country.

Following his sensational discovery, Howard Carter retired from archaeology and became a part-time agent for collectors and museums, including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).

Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

Ritchie found small-town life dull ; he became interested in rap music, learned how to breakdance and participated in talent shows in the Detroit area.

Once back in Detroit he became friends with Uncle Kracker after battling his brother in a freestyle rapping competition ; Uncle Kracker became Kid Rock's DJ.

At age 20, Cobb became the youngest player to win a batting championship and held this record until 1955 when fellow Detroit Tiger Al Kaline won the batting title when he was twelve days younger than Cobb had been.

The university was founded in 1817 in Detroit as the Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania, about 20 years before the Michigan Territory officially became a state.

In 1933, Tucker moved to Buffalo, New York and became regional sales manager for Pierce-Arrow automobiles, but after only two years he moved back to Detroit and worked as a Dodge salesman for Cass Motors.

John Kinzie ( December 3, 1763 – January 6, 1828 ) was a fur trader from Quebec who first operated in Detroit and what became the Northwest Territory of the United States.

Peter Forsberg's number 21 became the fourth jersey number retired by the Avs on opening night, a contest Colorado would lose to Detroit 3-0.

After qualifying for the post-season in 2001 and 2002 as the eighth and final seed in the Western Conference ( losing to the eventual Stanley Cup winners Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings, respectively ), the Canucks became regular contenders for the Northwest Division title.

As a result, Detroit soon became a major center of iron production, especially for use in stoves.

It became a bedroom community for Detroit workers, with most of its growth in housing from 1920-1951.

Waldron formed a partnership with two builders from Detroit, Hyman and Irving Green, who became majority owners of a group of 36 corporations.

In the early 20th century, the town became known as " Little Detroit " because of its importance to the automobile industry.

The Pembina-Emerson border crossing is the busiest between Blaine, Washington and Detroit, Michigan and the fifth busiest along the Canada-United States border.

In 2010, Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport was the 16th-busiest airport in the United States and the 24th busiest airport in the world in terms of passenger traffic.

It is the busiest such crossing west of Detroit.

Romulus is home to Michigan's busiest airport, Detroit Metro Airport, and it also includes the Romulus Athletic Center, an indoor fitness center, water park, and conference center.

The Detroit Metro Airport is the busiest in the area with the opening of the McNamara terminal and the now completed North Terminal.

A railway tunnel and a commercial truck ferry service also travel between Detroit and Windsor.

* August 20 – The first commercial radio station in the United States, 8MK ( WWJ ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.

In some " Twin city " markets close to the Canadian or Mexican border, such as Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, or San Diego, California and Tijuana, Baja California, commercial stations operating from those countries target U. S. audiences on " reserved band " channels, as neither Canada nor Mexico has such a reservation.

* Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport ( DTW ) ( Romulus )-Major commercial airport, hub for Delta Air Lines and Spirit Airlines

Southfield is a commercial and business center for the metropolitan Detroit area, with Southfield's of office space surpassing that of even Detroit's central business district.

Grosse Ile is considered to be one of the best locations along the Detroit River to observe commercial shipping and pleasure boat traffic.

TV3 is a " commercial supported Public-access television cable TV station " that broadcasts out of Detroit Lakes for the regional Arvig Communication Cable System.

The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by four bands: The Strokes, who emerged from the New York club scene with their début album Is This It ( 2001 ); The White Stripes, from Detroit, with their third album White Blood Cells ( 2001 ); The Hives from Sweden, after their compilation album Your New Favourite Band ( 2001 ); and The Vines from Australia with Highly Evolved ( 2002 ).

* The aforementioned sculpture of Louis's fist ( see Legacy above ) was one of several Detroit landmarks depicted in " Imported from Detroit ," a two-minute commercial for the Chrysler 200 featuring Eminem that aired during Super Bowl XLV in 2011.

As a teenager, she attended the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts ; she soon began singing radio commercial jingles, and took part in ( and won many of ) local TV and radio talent shows.

During this time, most commercial traffic shifted from small Detroit City Airport ( now Coleman Young International Airport ) northeast of downtown Detroit to the larger Willow Run Airport over west of the city, and west of Wayne County Airport.

The Wright Company was the commercial aviation business venture of the Wright Brothers, established by them on 22 November 1909 in conjunction with several prominent industrialists from New York and Detroit with the intention of capitalizing on their invention of the practical airplane.

Operating a Ford Tri-Motor between Washington, D. C. and Detroit, Michigan, via Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Cleveland, Ohio, she is the first female pilot for a regularly scheduled commercial airline.

Then Michigan voters narrowly approved a ballot measure in 1996 permitting three larger commercial casinos in Detroit.

Detroit, Michigan-born comics fan Shel Dorf, had in the mid-1960s mounted the Detroit Triple-Fan Fairs, one of the first commercial comics-fan conventions.

Dawber was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Thelma M. ( née Fisher ) and Eugene E. Dawber, a commercial artist.

The commercial breakthrough from these scenes was led by bands including The Strokes, who emerged from the New York club scene with their début album Is This It ( 2001 ) and The White Stripes, from Detroit, with their third album White Blood Cells ( 2001 ).

Automobile assembly and associated manufacturing soon dominated Detroit, and the newly-minted automotive magnates built commercial and office buildings such as General Motors Building ( 1919 ), the General Motors Research Laboratory ( 1928 ), and the Fisher Building ( 1928 ).

It had a commercial with Marian Hossa of the Detroit Red Wings promoting it, too.

The CRTC approved and on 1 September 1983, CANCOM began transmitting the four Detroit affiliates of the three major commercial networks and PBS: WJBK-TV, WDIV-TV, WXYZ-TV and WTVS.