Penned by Dana Hadley (the daughter of Andy and Helen Urchyshyn) It started as a dream. Andy and Helen Urchyshyn had a dream of opening a motel and restaurant to serve the citizens of the Sarnia Lambton community. Andy had previously owned and operated four restaurants in [...]
by Sarnia Observer staff (2015) Gus Pantazis decided to show gratitude to the country he loves, and first responders and members of the military who serve and protect it. The owner of Global Donuts and Deli on London Road in Sarnia invited politicians, fire and police officials, and others to [...]
by Lawrence A. Crich (1986) The early history of the Wellington Street School, like that of many other old schools, is very difficult to trace due to the meagreness of information to be found in the old minutes. Such minutes are in sharp contrast with the volumes written annually today. [...]
by Jean Turnbull Elford in Canada West’s Last Frontier (1982) Point Edward, Lambton’s largest incorporated village, placed where Lake Huron empties into the River St. Clair, made its way into recorded history earlier than any other part of Lambton. The first written account comes from the pen of Father Hennepin [...]
Credit to Sarnia Rocks Youtube Page The International Blue Water Bridge, spanning the St. Clair River between Sarnia and Port Huron, was an Idea which took more than a decade to realize. In June, 1927, the suggestion was made at Port Huron that a bridge project then rooted in [...]
by Kip Cuthbert for the Sarnia Historical Society (2015) One of Sarnia’s first parks was also one of the town’s lost parks. Back in 1879, a summer park surrounding Lake Chipican was created on Grand Trunk Railway land (present day Canatara Park) called International Park. The park contained buildings [...]
by Phil Egan - Special to The Sarnia Journal (2015) In his 1961 book, A History of the Chemical Industry in Lambton County, R.W. Ford describes the Bushnell Refinery, built in 1871, as the “first of Sarnia’s refineries.” Records indicate, however, that this information is not correct. Sarnia’s earliest refinery [...]
by Phil Egan, Special to LambtonShield.com Digital donation of picture by Joshua Purdy at Joshua Purdy Photography. (2015) In a sea of graves at Lakeview Cemetery, there is no mistaking the Pennington headstone. It marks its place in one of the very oldest of the cemetery’s sections, but this alone [...]
By Steven McKenna (2015) The year was 1889 when Patrick Grandcourt Kerwin was born in Sarnia, Ontario in what was a young Canadian nation where residents were considered British subjects. Queen Victoria was the monarch and the Prime Minister of the day was Sir John A. Macdonald, leader of the [...]
By Phil Egan - Special to The Sarnia Journal (2015) If houses could talk, this one could spin captivating tales It sits in stately and understated grandeur in a park in Bright’s Grove. Its two-storeys are clad in the distinctive Wawanosh yellow brick fired in the Telfer Road brickyard kilns. [...]
