by Phil Egan If you grew up in the 1960s, Tab’s was part of your life. Whether it was a Friday night high school dance, roller skating at Funland or Rose Gardens, or Saturday night dances at the Y on Mitton Street, Tab’s Drive In was where we all wound [...]
by Jessica Weirmier for the Sarnia Observer (2003) Progress was the defining word for Sarnia in the decade following the Second World War. By the time Sarnia hit the 1950s, no one doubted that it had established itself in the modern age. Heavy optimism reflected throughout the pages of what [...]
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2003) She was in town for only 90 minutes, but her visit created memories that would last a lifetime. The date was July 3, 1959 and Queen Elizabeth was in the city as part of a tour to celebrate the opening of the [...]
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 John Rochon for The Sarnia Journal (2014) In 1875, prominent attorney and one-time Sarnia mayor Robert Sinclair Gurd erected the largest home in town on the southwest corner of Christina Street and London Road. The site had been occupied by the remains of George Durand’s store, which was the [...]
By Bob McCarthy for Lambton Shield.com There were at one time during the first half of the last century two places here in Lambton County that you could go to dance and enjoy big band sound. At one of these places, as Ed Sullivan used to say, a “really big [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) The story of the multimillion dollar collection of Canadian art housed in the public art gallery in downtown Sarnia began a century ago when a group of volunteers went to work recycling paper and rags for Sarnia-Lambton’s war efforts. The murder of [...]
by Barbara Simpson for the Sarnia Observer (2014) When Dr. Helene Shingle poked and prodded at the teeth of Sarnia-Lambton seniors, she wasn’t only volunteering her time and talent. She was also celebrating a life she never thought she would have. At the start of World War II, Shingles – [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2010) Nicole Chénier-Cullen has written the memoirs that her late husband Bud Cullen never had the chance to. "I Found My Thrill on Parliament Hill" tells the story of her life working for cabinet ministers in Ottawa, and the love story that came [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) When Krystyna Stalmach found her father's war medals in an old shoebox, she wondered how many other Polish households in Sarnia had similar pieces of history stashed away. That inspired several months of work creating displays of local artifacts, all leading up [...]
