Oldcastle is an unincorporated community in the town of

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, Canada. It is bounded to the north by Highway 3, to the east by the

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trail, to the south by County Road 8 (Townline), and to the west by Howard Avenue. It is the starting point of the Chrysler Canada Greenway

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. Its western half consists primarily of industries and businesses, while the remaining area is farmland and residential.

Business

It is home to Ciociaro Club of Windsor, the largest Italian Club in Southwestern Ontario. The club sits on of land bordered by North Talbot Road and Oldcastle Road, including several baseball diamonds and soccer fields, and is encircled by a cycling track.

Wrestling

The community was known as a venue for

Border City Wrestling Border City Wrestling (BCW) is an independent professional wrestling promotion owned and booked by Scott D'Amore, and based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Many of the promotion's employees were trained at the ''Can-Am'' wrestling school. After ...

from 1995 to 2005 and even hosted

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events with such notable wrestlers as

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and

Terry Taylor Paul Worden Taylor III (born August 12, 1955) is an American retired professional wrestler better known by his ring name Terry Taylor and for his time as an in-ring performer in National Wrestling Alliance, World Championship Wrestling, and Wo ...

. Wrestling was held at the Ciociaro Club on Talbot Road and drew as much as 1,000 people to the matches. On March 3, 2001, Tommy Dreamer defeated Scott D'Amore and

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in 3-way match to win the Heavyweight Title. In a controversial match on March 12, 2002,

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and Sabu defeated Taylor and Cyrus to win the titles, however, since Sabu, who replaced

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as D'Amore's partner last minute, was not officially in the match, the match was declared non-title, and the titles were returned to Taylor and Cyrus.

Fibre Internet

In 2012 MNSi Telecom started installing

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Internet service to Walkerville with a gradual roll-out of upgrades through to 2020. The Walkerville upgrade is part of an expected investment of more than $35 million."Windsor Internet users can now experience the city’s fastest fibre optic connections"
WeTech Alliance, November 30, 2016 As of 2016, the service is available in Walkerville, Oldcastle, and East Windsor.

Notable people

Oldcastle is the hometown of retired

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forward

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and his brother

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who was a

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prospect.

External links

City of Windsor

Community of Windsor, Ontario – Community Living Resources Windsor ON, Canada

References

{{authority control Communities in Essex County, Ontario