By Phil Egan for The Sarnia Journal The year I turned 24, my dad’s garage was full of Swipe, “The Miracle Cleaner.” This was going to be my ticket back to third year at University of Windsor. All my aunts and uncles, and everyone who visited my parents’ home, owned [...]
by Jean Turnbull Elford in Canada West’s Last Frontier (1982) Point Edward, Lambton’s largest incorporated village, placed where Lake Huron empties into the River St. Clair, made its way into recorded history earlier than any other part of Lambton. The first written account comes from the pen of Father Hennepin [...]
By Phil Egan - Special to The Sarnia Journal (2015) If houses could talk, this one could spin captivating tales It sits in stately and understated grandeur in a park in Bright’s Grove. Its two-storeys are clad in the distinctive Wawanosh yellow brick fired in the Telfer Road brickyard kilns. [...]
by Phil Egam - Special to The Sarnia Journal, Then and Now. (2015) In the late 60s, I worked for a time as a bartender in the old Pine Room of the Vendome Hotel. It was a downstairs bar that could be entered either from the hotel above or from [...]
by Stephen Huebl (2005) Over the past 100 years, the Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce has played an active and vital role in Sarnia Lambton's growth. But even before its official incorporation in 1905, the Chamber can trace its roots back to the late 1800s. It all started on Feb. [...]
2014 by Glenn Ogilvie for The Sarnia Journal THEN Hundreds of milling residents can be seen surveying the wreckage in this aerial photo, taken May 21, 1953, just hours after a powerful tornado ripped through Sarnia’s downtown. The twister damaged 250 buildings, left dozen of families homeless and caused $5-million [...]
by the Sarnia Gazette (1978) In 1880, there were about 6,000 people living in the Town of Sarnia which was described as a thriving railway and shipping centre having an extensive waterworks and sewerage system, a horse-drawn street railway between Sarnia and Point Edward, a number of industries, including a [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2012) The future of a more than century-old steel bridge on Sarnia’s lakefront is undetermined, for now. Built in 1910, the span crosses the Cull Drain, also known as Perch Creek, on Old Lakeshore Road, but has only been used by pedestrians and [...]
by R.W. Ford (1987) Stretching for over 30 kilometres along the St. Clair River from the southern tip of Lake Huron to the village of Sombra lies the largest concentration of petroleum and chemical industry in Canada. Some 25 kilometres inland ancient oil wells grudgingly yield a few barrels of [...]
By Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer Sarnians can thank Paul Blundy for the fact that the City has a home for the aged today. That's because Blundy, who was Mayor from 1967 to 1974, led the Council that socked away $750,000.00 a year for three years in order to [...]
