Heritage and History: The Faethorne House

By Phil Egan - Special to The Sarnia Journal (2015)   If houses could talk, this one could spin captivating tales It sits in stately and understated grandeur in a park in Bright’s Grove. Its two-storeys  are clad in the distinctive Wawanosh yellow brick fired in the Telfer Road brickyard kilns. [...]

2015-08-29T19:39:37-04:00August 29th, 2015|Comments Off on Heritage and History: The Faethorne House

Origins and Proper Spelling of Bright’s Grove

by Tyler Kula for the Sarnia Observer (2015) A quiet debate about whether to apostrophize has been taken up in Bright's Grove. The nomenclature kerfuffle is punctuated by a few new community signs erected last December. The 'Bright's Grove' banners, according to the Official Road Map of Ontario, and Natural [...]

2015-08-26T01:01:37-04:00June 29th, 2015|Comments Off on Origins and Proper Spelling of Bright’s Grove

Diarist Offers Early View of Sarnia

by George Mathewson for The Sarnia Journal (2015)  Today we offer another first hand glimpse (of Sarnia) through the eyes of one Julia Marie Jones, who, in the summer of 1830, kept a journal of her transatlantic crossing and arrival in Upper Canada. Julia was the spirited daughter of Henry [...]

2019-03-22T10:24:46-04:00June 16th, 2015|Comments Off on Diarist Offers Early View of Sarnia

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