Froome and Field Talfourd

by George Mathewson for the Sarnia Observer (2003) Froome and Field Talfourd were not your typical pioneers when they ventured into the wilderness of Southwestern Ontario on horseback. The road came to an end at Warwick, so the brothers from England followed a trail blazed through forest and swamp to [...]

2015-07-25T01:55:54-04:00July 2nd, 2015|Comments Off on Froome and Field Talfourd

Talfourd Street Named for Kindly Pioneer

by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) Froome Talfourd has a street, a hamlet and a creek that bears his name, but it was a cottage he built in what’s now downtown Sarnia that impressed one early city historian Talfourd’s cottage was high on a hill overlooking Sarnia Bay [...]

2015-07-25T02:25:09-04:00June 29th, 2015|Comments Off on Talfourd Street Named for Kindly Pioneer

Rum-Running was Once a Lucrative Trade

by George Mathewson for the Sarnia Observer (2003) From the illicit rum-running of “Scarface” Capone to the location of the Sarnia Golf & Curling Club lounge, alcohol helped shape the social history of Sarnia-Lambton. With its miles of lonely shoreline, the St. Clair River was a porous border for rum-runners [...]

2015-08-26T01:37:20-04:00June 23rd, 2015|Comments Off on Rum-Running was Once a Lucrative Trade

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