by Carl Hnatyshyn for Sarnia This Week (2016) It was built in Rotherham, England during the late 17th/early 18th century, it patrolled the Great Lakes aboard a gunboat named Prince Alfred, protecting Canada from the Fenian Brotherhood during the 1860s and it was witness to countless military, religious and social ceremonies that [...]
by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2014) It’s been climbed on, posed beside and rendezvoused at by half the people in Sarnia at one time or another. But the origins of the cannon in Canatara Park, and how it got there, have long been a mystery. Now, two men [...]
By Tyler Kula for the Sarnia Observer (2015) A piece of Sarnia's military history could be headed back to its former resting place, thanks to a group of local historians. The 'Big Tom' cannon, long a landmark and meeting place in Canatara Park, is more than just a ceremonial centrepiece, [...]
