A town assembled from three
Today's Tecumseh dates from 1999, when the Village of St. Clair Beach, the Town of Tecumseh and the Township of Sandwich South — whose urbanized western edge Windsor had annexed back in 1966 — were amalgamated into one municipality of what is now 23,300 people. The join still shows on the ground. There is the Lake St. Clair waterfront with Lakewood Park on it and the older streets behind, and then there is subdivision after subdivision built out across former farmland from the late 1980s onward. Bin work divides along the same line: established lakeside houses on one side, three decades of subdivision housing on the other.
Working in Tecumseh's right-of-way
Tecumseh requires a Public Works Permit Application before any work within its right-of-way, and the Town defines that broadly — roads, sidewalks, walkways, driveway aprons, curbs, boulevards and parks. A bin that stays on your own driveway is not on that list. The consolidated 2025 Administrative Fees and Charges By-law (2024-097, Schedule E) prices right-of-way construction rather than temporary storage: a paved driveway entrance is $167 plus a $1,000 indemnity, a curb cut $84 plus $500, a road crossing $328 plus $2,000. There is no line item for a container standing on the boulevard of the kind Windsor's hoarding permit provides, so ring Tecumseh Public Works on 519-735-2184 to confirm how a short-term bin is treated before it is delivered.
Supply and disposal
For its size Tecumseh is well covered. Alongside the Windsor operators that list it, one company's own tagline names Windsor, Lakeshore and Tecumseh specifically, and another names Tecumseh, St. Clair Beach, Puce, Emeryville, Lakeshore, Windsor and LaSalle in its own service copy. Because it is that same Windsor-Essex pool crossing the boundary, the price bands on this page are the Windsor ones. Disposal works the same way: the Town has no EWSWA depot of its own, so household self-haul goes to the Public Drop Off Depot at 3560 North Service Road East in Windsor, with the Kingsville depot and the Essex-Windsor Regional Landfill on County Road 18 in Essex — the commercial-hauler site — farther out.