by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) In the shadow of the Blue Water Bridge lies Point Edward’s Waterfront Park, a place famed for its French Fries and freighters. The park fronts onto Livingston Street, and is probably the most photographed place in Sarnia-Lambton. But the greenspace enjoyed by [...]
by Randy Evans for The Sarnia Journal (2014) This year Sarnia has joined a national Remembrance to respect the 100th anniversary of Canada’s entry into the Great War. The community had good reason to reflect. Out of a population just then reaching 10,000 a total of 1,090 men and women [...]
by Cathy Dobson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) Life moved on for John Mills after he served overseas in the Second World War and was honourably discharged in 1946. Seventy years ago, he came home to his wife Betty in Point Edward and got down to the business of making [...]
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2003) A few hours before dawn on June 9, 1886, Sarnia was rocked by a pair of terrorist attacks. The first came around 2:30 a.m. when the home of J.G. McCrae was blown to pieces by dynamite. Two minutes later, an arsonist tried [...]
by George Mathewson for the Sarnia Observer (2003) Of all the strange things that abound in the pages of The Observer, the Fenian scare must rank near the top. By the mid-1860s, Sarnia was a bustling little community. Citizens were puffed up over the discovery of oil, the arrival of [...]
by Bob McCarthy for The Lambton Shield (2012) The Florence and Sarnia Plank Road was built at a cost of forty thousand dollars, half from Sarnia, with the rest put up by Malcolm Cameron, George Durand and other gentlemen, using their own money. Started in late fifty-eight, the new road [...]
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2009) A Sarnia war hero who became a crusader for peace has died. Joe Egan, who was also a noted community activist and businessperson, was 87. A graduate of Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School, Egan volunteered for duty with the Royal Canadian [...]
By Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) George Stirrett, one of many young men from Sarnia-Lambton who enlisted a century ago to fight in the First World War, is still remembered. Sarnia's armoury on Confederation Street is named for Stirrett, who returned home with the Distinguished Conduct Medal and [...]
from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune (1961) An explosion rocked a 250-foot tanker taking on gasoline at the Imperial Oil Co. Ltd. dock here Monday, touching off a spectacular fire and injuring six members of the crew. The fire burned out of control in the No. 5 hold of the Imperial Hamilton [...]
by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2014) No family has had a greater impact on Sarnia street names that the Vidals. Richard Emeric Vidal was a captain in the Royal Navy who was rewarded for his service with 200 acres in what would become the city’s choicest residential neighbourhoods. [...]
