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Patrick Kerwin Rises to the Top of his Profession

By Steven McKenna (2015) The year was 1889 when Patrick Grandcourt Kerwin was born in Sarnia, Ontario in what was a young Canadian nation where residents were considered British subjects. Queen Victoria was the monarch and the Prime Minister of the day was Sir John A. Macdonald, leader of the [...]

2015-09-02T02:41:38-04:00September 1st, 2015|Comments Off on Patrick Kerwin Rises to the Top of his Profession
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Macdonald-Mackenzie Debate in 1872 Election

by George Mathewson for the Sarnia Observer (2003) The boisterous crowd of merchants and farmers who assembled in downtown Sarnia the fateful afternoon of Aug. 21, 1872 were itching for a bare-knuckles political fight. They weren’t disappointed. Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, had arrived in [...]

2015-07-25T02:09:16-04:00July 2nd, 2015|Comments Off on Macdonald-Mackenzie Debate in 1872 Election
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