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 [...]
by Cathy Dobson for the Sarnia Observer (2009) Imagine a Sarnia without Highway 402, without the Norman Street Site at Bluewater Health, and without Sarnia Bay Marina. Imagine that the west side of Front Street was filled with nothing but vacant storefronts, not a single downtown high-rise in sight. That's [...]
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2003) The first meeting of Sarnia council had all the earmarks of a Laurel and Hardy movie. It happened in 1857, four years after the Observer was founded, when the community’s population surpassed 1,000, allowing it to move up from ‘village’ to ‘town’ [...]
