Phil Egan For more than 100 years Sarnia has been known as the Imperial City. Some people might think the name is connected with Imperial Oil, once the city’s largest employer. They would be wrong. Over the years, many Ontario cities have adopted nicknames. London is the Forest City; Guelph [...]
Phil Egan For The Sarnia Journal The whole, bizarre story began with a tragedy. On Tuesday morning, July 28, 1925, a man was seen pacing back and forth in front of the furnace of an Imperial Oil boiler room at the Sarnia plant. As he paced, he held a lump [...]
Cathy Dobson For The Sarnia journal (2017) George Gander and his daughter Georgia were admiring the distinctive sign that has graced the family’s front lawn for 65 years when a passing motorist braked and hollered, “You can’t take that sign down, you know! “If you do, no one will know [...]
Troy Shantz It’s an unassuming lump of yellow-painted concrete near the Duc d’Orleans dock, but people strolling along Sarnia’s riverfront seldom give it a passing glance. Officially known as “RM 53-82,” it’s one of nine similar lumps strewn along the Canadian shoreline between Sarnia and Mooretown. So what’s up with [...]
Tom St. Amand for The Sarnia Journal (2017) The letter he received from his wife in the spring of 1834 must have shocked A portrait of Anna Maria Penrose Mitton. Born in 1754, she sold off the family’s extensive holdings, left the metropolis of London, England and crossed the Atlantic [...]
By Phil Egan for The Sarnia journal. (2017) By the time I was 12-years old I was already an unabashed, slogan-chanting Irish rebel. I knew all of the stories of the atrocities Oliver Cromwell had committed in Ireland, knew the tales of how the English had robbed Ireland of [...]
Canadian Red Cross Society – Point Edward – 1916 – 1926 The Canadian Red Cross Society was founded on October on October 12, 1896. It was affiliated with the British Red Cross which was founded in 1870. The CRCS continued this relationship until the year 1919 when the CRCS was [...]
Thank you Bill Hale for your service to our country. You are a true Canadian Hero. OBITUARY HERE: Story Written by Brent Boles for The Sarnia Observer. (2014) As the first rays of sun broke over the beaches of Normandy, Bill Hale was huddled inside the hull of a tank. [...]
By David D. Plain Early History In the mid eighteenth century Aamjiwnaang territory covered a vast expanse of land on both sides of the waterway between Lakes Huron and Erie. Bounded by the Maitland River in the east and the Flint River in the west it contained some nine villages [...]
The National Film Board presents for The Department of Munitions and Supply: RX for Rubber. A video about the Polymer rubber plant constructed in Sarnia Ontario. Jim Russel contacted the historical society about this video and wanted to share. "I worked at Arlanxeo (formerly Lanxess) for ~ 28 years. During [...]
