A local tavern owner. Sarnia’s first Mayor
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer You might say he was the John A. Macdonald of Sarnia politicians. Or maybe the Richard M. Nixon. Thomas Forsyth was the community's first Mayor, serving from March 28, 1857 until he was forced to resign under a cloud five months later. The [...]
by Dan McCaffery for The Sarnia Oberver You might say he was the John A. Macdonald of Sarnia politicians. Or maybe the Richard M. Nixon. Thomas Forsyth was the community’s first Mayor, serving from March 28, 1857 until he was forced to resign under a cloud five months later. The Sombra [...]
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2003) The first meeting of Sarnia council had all the earmarks of a Laurel and Hardy movie. It happened in 1857, four years after the Observer was founded, when the community’s population surpassed 1,000, allowing it to move up from ‘village’ to ‘town’ [...]
