Original Story here Phil Egan for The Sarnia Journal “Excuse me – do you guys mind if I sit here to watch for the bus?” If you want some idea of how bad my vision was five years ago, there’s no better example of what it’s like to [...]
by Phil Egan Those of us in our late 60s or early 70s have few fond memories of November, 1963: especially its last two Fridays. On November 22nd, I was writing exams at St. Patrick’s High School in Sarnia. It wasn’t until our exams were over about 3 p.m. that [...]
On July 19, 1996 a large storm swept through Sarnia with heavy rains and lightning. At 12:45 AM lightning struck a raffinate tanker at the Suncor plant in causing an explosion. This is a video prepared for Sunoco for public release that discribes everything that happened that day. This video [...]
Story written Dorothy (Smith) Alexander for the Sarnia Historical Society You can view all of the pictures from the story, take here. https://www.flickr.com/photos/sarniahistoricalsociety/albums/72157666099572743 Thursday the 21st of May, 1953 started off like any other work day but did not end that way. It was my father’s birthday so a birthday [...]
(2016) Our student, Katie Braet has been hard at work researching the history of the Elizabth Workman trial. Who was Elizabeth Workman? Read a quick overview here. Below are all of the Observer articles that covered Mrs. Workmans case from 1872/73. Sarnia Observer: Nov 1 1872 A Man is Murdered [...]
(2016) By Phil Egan Special to The Sarnia Journal Original Post here: “At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Lawrence Binyon, in his heartstring-tugging poem, For the Fallen, quoted above, included in the second stanza the lines, “There is music in [...]
By Dan McCaffery For the Sarnia Observer (1993) Half a century after it fired its last shot in anger, a Canadian warship named for the City of Sarnia has won a new battle honour. Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn has announced the HMCS Sarnia has been recognized for its role in [...]
Phil Egan, printed in the Sarnia Journal in 2016. Original Story here: A mystery first reported in The Sarnia Journal almost two years ago has been solved. Restorers working on the 1940s-era steam locomotive in Centennial Park first noticed something odd about “Betty” in 2014. Welding scars indicated the engine [...]
by Phil Egan (2015) January 1, 1960 fell on a Friday. I have no particular memory of the day. What I do know is that I would have awakened that day with only one thing on my mind – football. I was 12 years old, and I loved every kind [...]
Written by PEGGY FLETCHER, for the Sarnia Observer (2002) History excites me. It is not just dull words in an old textbook but a living ledger of those who have gone before. It speaks of those who built the world in which we now reside. It is the Alpha and [...]
