Patrick Kerwin Rises to the Top of his Profession

By Steven McKenna (2015) The year was 1889 when Patrick Grandcourt Kerwin was born in Sarnia, Ontario in what was a young Canadian nation where residents were considered British subjects. Queen Victoria was the monarch and the Prime Minister of the day was Sir John A. Macdonald, leader of the [...]

2015-09-02T02:41:38-04:00September 1st, 2015|Comments Off on Patrick Kerwin Rises to the Top of his Profession

OLM Pastor Hosts William Tecumseh Sherman

By Phil Egan, Special for the Sarnia Jornal, Then and Now (2015)  He enrolled at Notre Dame at age 15, and went on to become president of a university. He rode with Union forces during the U.S. Civil war through some of its fiercest fighting in Tennessee and Georgia. In [...]

2015-09-01T20:21:17-04:00August 29th, 2015|Comments Off on OLM Pastor Hosts William Tecumseh Sherman

The Grand Trunk Railway

by Jean Turnbull Elford writing in Upper Canada’s Last Frontier (1982) The opening of a line between Port Huron and Chicago in 1879 brought a great increase in traffic to both the Great Western and the Grand Trunk. Three years later, the two lines amalgamated under the Grand Trunk name [...]

2022-06-15T21:44:44-04:00August 13th, 2015|Comments Off on The Grand Trunk Railway

St. Clair Raids an Integral Part of 1838 Upper Canada Rebellion

by John C. Carter, special to The Observer Headlines in the July 10, 1838 edition of the Sandwich Western Herald said it all: “Piratical Doings on the River St. Clair.” Editor Henry Grant vividly described an attack made upon Sombra on June 28 by what he called “Pirates-Rebels.” This was [...]

2015-08-26T01:20:29-04:00June 23rd, 2015|Comments Off on St. Clair Raids an Integral Part of 1838 Upper Canada Rebellion

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