Things to do in Lakeshore
Things to do in Lakeshore start with the water: a marina town on Lake St. Clair with a beach, a pier and one of Ontario's great freshwater fisheries, backed by a three-pad arena complex, a 167-year-old country fair, four library branches and a main street that still programmes its own evenings. This page also carries the corrections that make it trustworthy: the drive-in is closed for good, the famous summer festival is cancelled, no farmers' market season is verified, and the cinema and airport that carry Lakeshore's name or sit beside it belong to Tecumseh and Windsor respectively.
Photos for Lakeshore are still on their way. Every listing below is real.
Lake St. Clair is the town's front yard — start there.
The municipal marina where the Belle River meets the lake, with Lakeview Park, West Beach and the pier beside it. Swimming and shore days in summer, the Parks Concert Series on the Town's calendar in season, and the working harbour all year. The 2024 Canada Day fireworks fired from a barge off this shore.
Muskie water of genuine reputation, with bass, walleye and perch — the fishery the Belle River chapter of Muskies Canada is built around, meeting at the Legion hall in Belle River. Charters and launches run out of Belle River and Lighthouse Cove; the season is water- and weather-dependent, so book with a local operator rather than a calendar.
The eastern shore's renewed park, reopened at a Canada Day 2026 grand opening that doubled as the Town's rotating July 1 celebration that year — parade, ribbon cutting, live music and fireworks at 10 p.m. The quiet end of the shore for picnics and lake air.
Lakeshore's recreation is municipal, published and seat-named — three centres carry it.
Three NHL-size pads, an aquatic centre, a gymnasium, a dance studio, a walking track and the library's Lakeshore Branch under one roof. Home of the Lakeshore Canadiens (PJHL), BRDMHA minor hockey and Lakeshore Lightning girls' hockey. Drop-in skating and swims run on the Town's seasonal schedules, fees published there.
The south end's centre, in Woodslee: recreation programming, its own Essex County Library branch, and Millen Park with the Millen Community Centre in Maidstone nearby — the pair that hosted Canada Day 2025 and holds Woodslee's Remembrance Day service.
The fairgrounds complex the Comber Agricultural Society fills each August — the 167th fair ran August 7–9, 2026 — and the community centre beside it, which hosted the new Camp Comber children's camp in summer 2026 and an advance-vote day that October. Comber Branch library shares the Main Street address.
Belle River's dated layer is the BIA's: Stroll the Street Friday evenings on Notre Dame Street — the Thanksgiving edition runs Friday, October 9, 2026, 6 to 8:30 p.m. — a July car show downtown (held Friday, July 10, 2026), and the Merry and Bright Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting on Friday, November 27, 2026, with a Christmas Market the same night. The Comber Fair is the summer's centrepiece: run by the Comber Agricultural Society, seated in Comber since 1859, with 4-H exhibits, homecrafts, livestock, a parade and a demolition derby. What you will not find, however hard an old listing insists: the Sunsplash Festival, cancelled by the BIA before the 2025 season. Its weekend lives on only in the car show the BIA still runs.
Lakeshore's eastern communities — Stoney Point / Pointe-aux-Roches, St. Joachim, Ruscom — carry one of Ontario's oldest French-speaking settlements, and the layer is living, not decorative: the Windsor–Lake St. Clair Catholic family of parishes publishes a bilingual bulletin, and the parishes anchor their communities — St. Simon and St. Jude, 488 St Charles St, Belle River; Visitation Parish, 5407 Comber Sideroad, Comber; St. John the Evangelist, 1688 Essex County Rd 46, South Woodslee; Good Shepherd in Emeryville. L'Association St-Joachim's hall on County Road 42 is the community venue in St. Joachim. The Puce River shore carries a Black-history layer the town's own records name — ask locally, and go respectfully.
The Municipality's camp programme added Camp Comber in 2026 — ten weeks of themed programming at the Comber Community Centre for ages 4 to 11, alongside the established Atlas Tube camp in Belle River; registration and fees publish on the Town's camp pages each spring. The Essex County Library's four Lakeshore branches — Atlas Tube (Belle River), Libro Centre (Woodslee), Comber and Stoney Point (850 Comber Sideroad) — run the children's programme layer on the library's own calendar. And the town's most practical family visit: the Lakeshore Dog Pound, 914 Puce Rd, Emeryville, the multi-municipal pound where Lakeshore's stray dogs are held and, after their hold, may move to St. Clair College for adoption — the town's shelter is its own, and the Windsor humane society is not it.
Four corrections, printed once and plainly. The Boonies Drive-In, 4625 Richardson Side Rd, closed permanently on October 4, 2026 — a piece of the town's history now, not a night out. No farmers' market season is verified — Belle River's market at Optimist Park is attested only in 2014–2018 material, so no day or hours print here as fact. There is no curling club, no campus, no enclosed mall and no hospital seated in Lakeshore, and no bus service of the town's own — Transit Windsor does not enter town, and the single Tecumseh Transit stop inside the boundary is a neighbour's route. Finally, no cruise calls here: the ships transit Lake St. Clair, and the marinas are pleasure and charter water, not a port.
Start on the water: Belle River Marina, Lakeview Park and West Beach, and Lake St. Clair's muskie and perch fishery. Indoors and on ice: the Atlas Tube Recreation Centre in Belle River and the Libro Centre in Woodslee. Across the year: the Comber Fair each August, the BIA's Stroll the Street evenings and the Merry and Bright Parade on November 27, 2026.
Not in Lakeshore itself. The Boonies Drive-In closed permanently on October 4, 2026, and the cinema branded Imagine Cinemas "Lakeshore" is in Tecumseh (164 Commercial Blvd). Film nights are a drive to a neighbour's cinema.
Start with the town's own facility: the Lakeshore Dog Pound, 914 Puce Rd, Emeryville — a multi-municipal pound for Lakeshore, LaSalle, Tecumseh and Essex. Unclaimed dogs may move to St. Clair College for assessment and adoption. The Windsor/Essex Humane Society is Windsor's contractor, not Lakeshore's shelter.
No current-season series is verified. The Belle River Farmers' Market at Optimist Park is attested only in 2014–2018 sources and Comber's rests on an undated form, so this guide prints no market day or hours as live fact.
Through a local charter out of Belle River or Lighthouse Cove — muskie is the signature species, with bass, walleye and perch. The Belle River chapter of Muskies Canada anchors the community side of the fishery.
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