By Phil Egan for The Sarnia Journal (2016) A park forms one of my earliest memories. I was five back in 1952. My two spinster aunts, Frances and Lily, used to walk with me through the grounds of Victoria Park. The old Carnegie Library with its rounded dome was here, [...]
by Kip Cuthbert for the Sarnia Historical Society (2015) One of Sarnia’s first parks was also one of the town’s lost parks. Back in 1879, a summer park surrounding Lake Chipican was created on Grand Trunk Railway land (present day Canatara Park) called International Park. The park contained buildings [...]
by George Mathewson for the Sarnia Observer (2003) Imagine Sarnia without Canatara Park. No sandy beach. No leafy paths. No bandshell or animal farm. Well, the crown jewel in Sarnia’s park system would likely be a gaping crater or buried under a sprawling subdivision today if it hadn’t been for [...]
by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) A century ago, when Sarnians wanted to escape the city’s oppressive summer heat and humidity, they didn’t flock to Canatara Park. A trip to “the beach” in 1915 typically meant heading to the sandy shoreline between Christina Street and Colborne Road, an [...]
By Rany Xanthopoulo First Monday (2015) The origins of the Chinese Community in our area dates back to the mid- seventies. Dr. George Lichong and Mr. Chuck Woo were the original founders and their aim was to keep the culture ties and traditions alive and to help new immigrants to [...]
by Rany Xanthopolou for First Monday (2015) The time that the first Greek people settled in Sarnia dates back to the early 1900s, but the greatest influx of Greeks migrating to Sarnia was in the early 1960s. In the late 1960s,with a growing number of Greek families in the area, [...]
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2003) There were statesmen and scoundrels, war veterans, a noted investor and even a football hero. In fact, included among the 63 men who have sat in the mayor’s chair during Sarnia’s history have been some of the most colourful characters ever to [...]
