by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2003) The first meeting of Sarnia council had all the earmarks of a Laurel and Hardy movie. It happened in 1857, four years after the Observer was founded, when the community’s population surpassed 1,000, allowing it to move up from ‘village’ to ‘town’ [...]
By George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) In the year 1827, an intrepid 16-year old named Freeman Talbot disembarked at “The Rapids” as part of a survey team tasked with plotting out the future Sarnia and Moore Townships. Over the next five months, Talbot explored the dense and unbroken [...]
Recording the Rich First Nations Heritage by Scott Stephenson for the Sarnia Observer (2003) European settlers documented their important events, but native communities have traditionally relied on elders to pass down an oral history of the culture to younger generations. Concerned that the early history of the Chippewa communities is [...]