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St. Clair Beach is a community on Lake Saint Clair in the town of Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada. [1] Until 1998, the village was a separate entity (formerly part of Maidstone Township), but was amalgamated into Tecumseh.

St. Clair Beach is known for its old-fashioned street name signs along Riverside Drive, a large shopping plaza at the corner of Manning Road (Essex County Road 19) and Tecumseh Road (Essex County Road 2), a private golf course Beach Grove Golf and Country Club, scenic bike trails, and even large whiskey cellars where Hiram Walker Distillery stores its Canadian Club spirits to age for a few years (actually in neighbouring Lakeshore).

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References

  1. "Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB)". Government of Canada. 2021-02-16. Retrieved 2024-12-01.

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