by George Mathewson The Sarnia Journal (2014) The newly released City of Sarnia War Remembrance Project documents 306 Sarnia soldiers who have fallen in war and conflicts. This is the story of one of them: John Lychowich was born on the plains of Manitoba and made his way to Sarnia [...]
by Scott Stephenson for the Sarnia Observer (2003) The last big construction boom in the Chemical Valley occurred almost 30 years ago [Editor’s Note-story written in 2003], fueled by the creation of Petrosar. As the country moved out of the 1960s and into the 1970s, Sarnia’s petrochemical industry was ailing. [...]
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2003) If you wanted to, you could make a pretty good case that Sarnia saved the free world in 1942. It happened during the darkest days of the Second World War when Japanese troops occupied the rubber plantations of Southeast Asia, cutting off [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) If it weren’t for an American-born engineer who earned the nickname “minister of everything” during his long career in Canadian politics, Sarnia might never have become home to the country’s Chemical Valley. Chosen by Prime Minister Mackenzie King to lead efforts to [...]
