From 25th Anniversary Yearbook of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church (1995) Canada was founded more than 200 years ago by European settlers who came to this new land in search of a better life. Canada’s strength was, and continues to be, the diversity of its people. Its multicultural heritage can [...]
by George Mathewson for the Sarnia Observer (2003) Froome and Field Talfourd were not your typical pioneers when they ventured into the wilderness of Southwestern Ontario on horseback. The road came to an end at Warwick, so the brothers from England followed a trail blazed through forest and swamp to [...]
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2003) It was a time when The Observer could report in the same edition that an auto maker was considering coming to town and that a runaway horse had smashed through a plate glass window downtown. The first decade of the 20th century [...]
by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) A century ago, when Sarnians wanted to escape the city’s oppressive summer heat and humidity, they didn’t flock to Canatara Park. A trip to “the beach” in 1915 typically meant heading to the sandy shoreline between Christina Street and Colborne Road, an [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) William and Maud Hanna was a Sarnia power couple when the community celebrated becoming a city a century ago. William Hanna was born in Adelaide Township in 1862 but moved with his family in 1871 to a farm in what was then [...]
by Rany Xanthopolou for First Monday (2015) The time that the first Greek people settled in Sarnia dates back to the early 1900s, but the greatest influx of Greeks migrating to Sarnia was in the early 1960s. In the late 1960s,with a growing number of Greek families in the area, [...]
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2003) He was the most famous – and tragic – sports hero of Sarnia’s early history. Mike Ward, whom reporters had dubbed “The Sarnia Wonder,” was the city’s first internationally known athlete. In fact, it wouldn’t be much of a stretch to say [...]
by Carl Hnatyshyn Sarnia This Week (2015) If you’ve lived in Sarnia anytime over the past half-century and have spent time riding down Lambton’s open roads on a chopper, chances are that you’ve heard of Ray McQuinn and Motorsport. That’s because for over 50 years, McQuinn and his team have [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) Joe Dagan believed Sarnia should be a city. As an alderman in the early 1900s, he urged town council to push for the growth needed to make that happen. As mayor, he led the celebrations in 1914 when the Duke of Connaught, [...]
by Heather Linda Young for the Sarnia Observer Mulberry House was built by Alexander Mackenzie and home to Mayor Marceil Saddy (2011) If you go to visit Adele Walsh at her downtown Sarnia home, you won't just press a button for the bell to ring. Instead, you'll have to turn [...]
