Written by Phil Egan for The Sarnia Journal (2016) We can all recall movies in which someone would jump in a taxi, point ahead and holler, “Follow that car!” For Sarnia police in 1922, that scene may have conveyed an uncomfortable air of familiarity. With a small surplus in the [...]
Written by George Mathewson, The Sarnia Journal. (2015) To look at it today you’d never suspect St. Paul’s United Church came about because of a rail tunnel built beneath the St. Clair River. But the south-end church, which celebrates its 125th anniversary on Nov. 9, can trace both its [...]
Original Post: By Paul Morden, Sarnia Observer (2016) Karen Leach says her brother, the late Lt.-Gen. (retired) William Leach, was always proud of being from Sarnia. The former commander of the Canadian Army grew up in a military family that moved often, but he spent the first few years [...]
Written by Randy Evans, special to The Sarnia Journal (2016) The west wing of Sarnia’s Cenotaph contains the names of 116 Sarnians who died as a result of The First World War. While each has a different story, they all share a substantial connection to Sarnia and death while in [...]
Original Story found here: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/201514#REF109 Justice Not Done : The Hanging of Elizabeth Workman Scott M. Gaffield * 130 Sherwood Dr. Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y 3V2 [email protected] Abstract Throughout Canadian history, there has only been a single woman hanged contrary to the jury's recommendation: Elizabeth Workman. Hanged in 1873 in [...]
Date – Chief – Years as Chief Up to 1827 – Animkeence - 30+ 1827 – Joshua Wawanosh – 17 March 1844 – Mishibizhe – 4 1848 – Joshua Wawanosh – 5 January 1853-67 – David Wawanosh – 15 January 1868-70 – Joshua Wawanosh – 3 June 1870-74 – Nicholas [...]
By Phil Egan for The Sarnia Journal The year I turned 24, my dad’s garage was full of Swipe, “The Miracle Cleaner.” This was going to be my ticket back to third year at University of Windsor. All my aunts and uncles, and everyone who visited my parents’ home, owned [...]
By George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal A Sarnia man has created a website as a tribute to his pilot dad, who defied the odds by surviving 43 harrowing bombing missions over Germany and Italy in the Second World War. “I used to tell him he’s a refugee from the [...]
By Randy Evans and Gary Scrhrumm for The Sarnia Journal Extraordinary lives are always worth telling. Emma Matilda Wood was born in 1883 to Elgin and Mary Anne Wood (nee Rowe) of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. On the strength of the families’ Front St. fruit and vegetable business Miss Wood and [...]
By Phil Egan for The Sarnia Journal The growth of leisure time began in Sarnia in the late nineteenth century, although many sporting clubs wouldn’t begin organized activities until the early days of the 20th century. One of the earliest to gain popularity was curling. Scottish-Canadians introduced the sport in [...]
