Memories of VE Day

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer "Restraint" is the word that was used to describe Sarnia's VE Day celebrations, 70 years ago this month. Days after Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker, Germany's military surrendered, bringing the Second World War in Europe to an end. Victory in Europe [...]

2015-08-23T01:19:53-04:00August 23rd, 2015|Comments Off on Memories of VE Day

Telling History with Quilts

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2009) Quilts have a lot to say, says Bob Tremain, curator at the Lambton Heritage Museum. Galleries at the county museum, located on Highway 21 near the Pinery, are covered in them these days. One gallery is filled with the county museum's summer [...]

2015-08-13T20:09:18-04:00August 13th, 2015|Comments Off on Telling History with Quilts

William J. and Maud Hanna

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) William and Maud Hanna was a Sarnia power couple when the community celebrated becoming a city a century ago. William Hanna was born in Adelaide Township in 1862 but moved with his family in 1871 to a farm in what was then [...]

2022-06-15T21:57:54-04:00June 29th, 2015|Comments Off on William J. and Maud Hanna

Memorial Wall Dedicated at Sarnia Police HQ

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer Several descendants that Const. John Lewis never had the chance to know gathered on the second floor of Sarnia Police headquarters Wednesday for the dedication of a memorial wall for officers killed in the line of duty. "It's good to see that they're [...]

2015-08-24T03:16:05-04:00June 29th, 2015|Comments Off on Memorial Wall Dedicated at Sarnia Police HQ

Sadie Knowles and the Women’s Conservation Committee

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) The story of the multimillion dollar collection of Canadian art housed in the public art gallery in downtown Sarnia began a century ago when a group of volunteers went to work recycling paper and rags for Sarnia-Lambton’s war efforts. The murder of [...]

2015-07-27T16:02:52-04:00June 29th, 2015|Comments Off on Sadie Knowles and the Women’s Conservation Committee

New Memorial Recalls Bud Cullen’s Illustrious Career

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2010) Nicole Chénier-Cullen has written the memoirs that her late husband Bud Cullen never had the chance to. "I Found My Thrill on Parliament Hill" tells the story of her life working for cabinet ministers in Ottawa, and the love story that came [...]

2015-08-24T02:53:36-04:00June 29th, 2015|Comments Off on New Memorial Recalls Bud Cullen’s Illustrious Career

Sarnia’s Polish Community Displays Veterans’ Artifacts

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) When Krystyna Stalmach found her father's war medals in an old shoebox, she wondered how many other Polish households in Sarnia had similar pieces of history stashed away. That inspired several months of work creating displays of local artifacts, all leading up [...]

2015-08-26T02:01:12-04:00June 23rd, 2015|Comments Off on Sarnia’s Polish Community Displays Veterans’ Artifacts

“Lambton at War” Exhibit Highlights Area’s Military History

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2015) A new exhibit at the Lambton Heritage Museum is sharing, while still gathering, stories about Lambton at War, along with artifacts from the community's military history. The new exhibit, Lambton at War, runs until Nov. 11 at the Lambton County museum, located [...]

2015-08-25T03:11:18-04:00June 23rd, 2015|Comments Off on “Lambton at War” Exhibit Highlights Area’s Military History

London’s Loss was Sarnia’s Gain

by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) Sarnia was actually Canada’s  second, or perhaps even third, Chemical Valley. By 1914, the year Sarnia became a city, its Imperial Oil refinery employed 1,200 workers, covered nearly 110 acres on the St. Clair River and manufactured products ranging from kerosene to [...]

2015-06-22T15:26:20-04:00June 22nd, 2015|Comments Off on London’s Loss was Sarnia’s Gain

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