by Carl Hnatyshyn for Sarnia This Week (2015) From the artwork of Tom Thompson and Salvador Dali to the unique inventions of the group dorkbot, an audience of approximately 100 people were treated to a captivating look at the past, present and future of Sarnia’s art scene, as Jane Hunter [...]
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 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 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 Tara Jeffrey for the Sarnia Observer The legendary Canadian hydroplane Miss Supertest III raced the blue waters of the St. Clair River (2013) One of the main attractions set to arrive on Front Street for the upcoming International Powerboat Festival is a legendary Canadian hydroplane with a storied career that [...]
by Tara Jeffrey for the Sarnia Observer (2014) The city of Sarnia has been shaped by number of notable politicians, from familiar figures like former prime minister Alexander Mackenzie, to long forgotten names like 19th century mayor Thomas George Johnston. Some notable names from the history books include: Cameron was [...]
by Barbara Simpson for The Sarnia Observer [Editor’s Note: Sarnia is home to the Coast Guard's Central and Arctic Regional Headquarters.] They laid the first transatlantic fiber optic cable, performed ice rescues on the St. Clair River and provided aid during Hurricane Katrina. The men and women of the Canadian [...]
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 Daniel Punch for the Sarnia Observer (2012) More than a century of golfing history began modestly in 1907 on property owned by Grand Trunk Railway. A group of golfers hacked balls through a field near Christina and Exmouth streets onto sandy greens, pulling any weeds that grew around the [...]
by Tyler Kula for the Sarnia Observer (2014) As far as Al Bedard remembers, there was virtually nothing a shopper couldn’t find during its heyday in the 1960s and 70s.The once-prominent shopping sector in an era before Sarnia Township’s amalgamation with Clearwater, boasted everything from lawyers and doctors, to hardware [...]
