Original Story by Phil Egan at The Sarnia Journal. Drone photo, courtesy of David Cooke, inskyphoto.com David Cooke was puzzled, and more than a little dubious. Sitting in a barber shop on Lakeshore Road, he listened to an older gentleman describe an old wreck situated in Lake Huron’s waters just [...]
The Kenwick Terrace building, as seen from George Street, circa 1951. Photo courtesy, John Rochon collection Original Story found at The Sarnia Journal: Phil Egan Back in the 1960s, my brother and I would go up to Kenwick Terrace to watch the wrestling matches. Leaping Larry Chene and Johnny Powers [...]
Portrait of a woman, whose name is not recorded, taken at the Robinson photography studio of Sarnia, 1865-1867. Photo courtesy, John Rochon Collection Original Story found at The Sarnia Journal: George Mathewson A few weeks ago we tried to illustrate what life was like here at the time of Confederation [...]
The S.S. South American was the last of the classic Great Lakes cruise ships. Photo courtesy, Kohl-Forsberg Archives Original story found at The Sarnia Jouranl: Phil Egan The Canada 150 celebrations took my mind back to Canada’s last major birthday – the 1967 Centennial and Montreal World Fair, known as [...]
Phil Egan @ Sarnia Journal. There’s an old saying that the only way to make money in a casino is to own the casino. I learned the truth of that at an early age. Every year that I was at high school at St. Patrick’s, I ran a highly popular [...]
The B17 was used in every theatre of war from 1941 to 1945. Many Canadian airmen crewed aboard B17s and Canada employed six of the planes for transatlantic mail flights. Troy Shantz Original Story @ The Sarnia Joutna. Troy Shantz The vintage B17 bomber that visited Sarnia last week took [...]
Electrified trains like this one, introduced in 1902, reduced the risk of coal fumes in the St. Clair River Tunnel. Photo courtesy, Dave Burwell Collection, Sarnia Historical Society Phil Egan By 1902 there had already been multiple deaths by asphyxiation in the St. Clair River Tunnel. In the early days [...]
The late Lois “Sopie” Soper of Sarnia, at a Georgetown University Hospital Ladies Board meeting in Washington, D.C. At the lecturn is Robert Kennedy. Submitted Photo George Mathewson @ Sarnia journal Sarnia Collegiate has produced many notable citizens over the years, from author Marian Engel and actor James “Scotty” Doohan, to [...]
This old anchor in Canatara Park, possibly from the 18th century, was discovered by accident on the bottom of the St. Clair River in the 1940s. Troy Shantz Tom St. Amand @ Sarnia Journal People are usually surprised when they learn Sir Winston Churchill sported a tattoo of a ship’s [...]
Original Story: Troy Shantz @ Sarnia Journal Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley stands beside a portrait of former mayor Paul Blundy, who was presented with this flag during Canada’s Centennial in 1967. Blundy’s daughter, Martha Knight, recently took the flag out of storage and presented it to Bradley, who is displaying it [...]
