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Essex County Sanatorium Relocates to Prince Road

The sanatorium moves from near Kingsville to its Sandwich campus — the facility that would go through several names over the next century before becoming HDGH's Tayfour Campus, directly across from Connaught Avenue.

Connaught Road's First Directory Entry

The street appears for the first time with one new house and a handful of occupied lots. Among the early residents: a Chrysler worker and Beatrice, a dressmaker. The street is on the edge of Sandwich, still largely undeveloped.

Sandwich Merges With Windsor — Walter Pyle Appears

The municipal merger triggers a full renumbering. Old 51 Connaught becomes 3761; old 53 — sanatorium engineer Anderson's house — becomes 3789. Connaught still has eleven vacant lots. Walter Pyle makes his first directory appearance: a physician boarding at 102 Prince Rd, already working at the sanatorium. The site of 3785 does not yet exist.

Pyle Moves to 3789 Connaught

Pyle moves from Prince Rd into 3789 Connaught with his wife Marie — the house Anderson the sanatorium engineer had previously occupied. Geo Hasenflug, another sanatorium worker, remains at 1405–1415 Prince Rd. That address is now HDGH's front parking lot.

3785 Connaught is Built

The address does not appear in the 1939 directory but does in 1940 — strongly implying construction in 1939. The most likely sequence: the new house is built next door to Pyle at 3789, Hasenflug moves from Prince Rd, and Pyle moves into the new house. The 1940 directory appears to have transposed the two addresses — listing Hasenflug at 3785 and Pyle still at 3789 — but by 1941 the records are consistent and remain so for twenty years: Pyle at 3785, Hasenflug at 3789.

Dr. Walter Pyle — Two Decades at 3785

Pyle remains at 3785 for over twenty years. The directories trace his full career progression at the sanatorium across the street. His wife's name shifts from Marie to Nellie in the 1942 entry onward — likely a remarriage or a longstanding nickname finally recorded. The 1959 directory captures just how completely the institution dominated the street: the sanatorium's shipping entrance alone ran from 3766 to 3784 Connaught — the entire even-numbered frontage directly opposite the residential houses.

William Jarvis — Chrysler Foreman

After Pyle, the house passes to William Jarvis, a foreman at Chrysler. The transition from physician to autoworker reflects the Windsor of the early 1960s: UAW wages were strong enough that a skilled Chrysler foreman could buy a home previously occupied by a senior medical professional. It's a snapshot of what the auto industry meant to working families in this city.

Raymond Merton — Ontario Hydro Electrician

The Sanatorium Becomes HDGH — and Keeps Expanding

The facility across the street went through several names and mandates as tuberculosis became treatable and its original purpose disappeared: Essex County Sanatorium → I.O.D.E. Hospital → Western Hospital → Windsor Regional Hospital (Tayfour Campus) → Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare (2013). Throughout, it was absorbing the surrounding properties. A 3784 Connaught appears in the 1937 directory but not in later years — consumed by the expanding campus. Hasenflug's old address at 1415 Prince Rd is now HDGH's front parking lot. The last remaining house on the even side of south section of Connaught was demolished in early 2026. The institution has been methodically absorbing its surroundings for nearly ninety years.

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Erika Ziraldo opens Hideaway Spa at 3785 Connaught — the latest chapter for an address that has been home to a TB physician, a Chrysler foreman, and a few others in between, on a street that has watched a sanatorium grow into a major healthcare campus for the better part of a century.