by Daniel Punch for the Sarnia Observer (2012) Only the sound of a stiff breeze disrupted the heavy silence Sunday as Sarnia honoured its servicemen and women. More than 500 people gathered downtown to watch the 2012 Remembrance Day Parade and subsequent service at Veterans Park. The parade began at [...]
by Cathy Dobson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) Life moved on for John Mills after he served overseas in the Second World War and was honourably discharged in 1946. Seventy years ago, he came home to his wife Betty in Point Edward and got down to the business of making [...]
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 [...]
(2015) Shortly after the end of the Second World War, thousands of displaced Polish immigrants and veterans arrived in Canada, seeking to carve out a life out after their homeland had been witness to tragedy for six years. While Nazism had been wiped out in Europe, the encroachment of Stalin’s [...]
