By Phil Egan for The Sarnia Journal “History is bunk.” For uttering those words Henry Ford was ridiculed as an ignoramus in newspapers across the United States. But what Ford was actually criticizing wasn’t the study of history itself but the way it was taught – the memorizing of dates [...]
by Jean Turnbull Elford writing in Canada West’s Last Frontier The earliest ferry to run between Sarnia and Port Huron was a sailboat. A Sarnia named Crampton got a license to run her in 1836. In the 1840s a horse-powered ferry began to run with George Moffat in charge. Julius [...]
by Randy Evans for The Sarnia Journal (2014) One hundred years ago, Canada’s initial World War One recruiting drive was in earnest. All volunteers, Sarnia’s earliest enlistees were routed into military groupings based in centres other than their hometown. But this changed in 1915 with the formation of the 70th [...]
