Rose City cuts roses. Is Windsor becoming the city of few roses? Over the last decade, the number of municipally grown roses bushes in Windsor -- nicknamed the City of Roses -- has steadily ...

It’s not clear why or when the City of Windsor was dubbed the City of Roses. The city’s coat of arms includes roses. Some say downtown rose gardens were prominent in the 1940s.

Windsor is widely known as the automotive capital of Canada, but those unfamiliar with the southwestern Ontario region might be surprised to find that it also goes by another name: Rose City.