by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) William and Maud Hanna was a Sarnia power couple when the community celebrated becoming a city a century ago. William Hanna was born in Adelaide Township in 1862 but moved with his family in 1871 to a farm in what was then [...]
By Rany Xanthopoulo First Monday (2015) The origins of the Chinese Community in our area dates back to the mid- seventies. Dr. George Lichong and Mr. Chuck Woo were the original founders and their aim was to keep the culture ties and traditions alive and to help new immigrants to [...]
by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) Froome Talfourd has a street, a hamlet and a creek that bears his name, but it was a cottage he built in what’s now downtown Sarnia that impressed one early city historian Talfourd’s cottage was high on a hill overlooking Sarnia Bay [...]
by John Rochon for The Sarnia Journal (2014) In 1875, prominent attorney and one-time Sarnia mayor Robert Sinclair Gurd erected the largest home in town on the southwest corner of Christina Street and London Road. The site had been occupied by the remains of George Durand’s store, which was the [...]
by Tyler Kula for the Sarnia Observer (2015) A quiet debate about whether to apostrophize has been taken up in Bright's Grove. The nomenclature kerfuffle is punctuated by a few new community signs erected last December. The 'Bright's Grove' banners, according to the Official Road Map of Ontario, and Natural [...]
by Barbara Simpson the Sarnia Observer (2015) Sarnia's first son of space will help rededicate the city's recently-restored Golden Hawk next weekend. Former Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield will pilot Hawk One – another restored F-86 Sabre – as part of a flyover during the rededication ceremony set for Germain Park [...]
by Cathy Dobson the Sarnia Observer (2012) The ladies would be pleased. When the $10.3-million Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery opens in two months, a century-old dream shared by an enterprising group of Sarnia women will finally be fulfilled. The Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery is the [...]
by Carl Hnatyshyn for Sarnia This Week (2015) From the artwork of Tom Thompson and Salvador Dali to the unique inventions of the group dorkbot, an audience of approximately 100 people were treated to a captivating look at the past, present and future of Sarnia’s art scene, as Jane Hunter [...]
By Bob McCarthy for Lambton Shield.com There were at one time during the first half of the last century two places here in Lambton County that you could go to dance and enjoy big band sound. At one of these places, as Ed Sullivan used to say, a “really big [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer Several descendants that Const. John Lewis never had the chance to know gathered on the second floor of Sarnia Police headquarters Wednesday for the dedication of a memorial wall for officers killed in the line of duty. "It's good to see that they're [...]
