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Sarnia’s Evolving Downtown

2014 by Glenn Ogilvie for The Sarnia Journal THEN  Hundreds of milling residents can be seen surveying the wreckage in this aerial photo, taken May 21, 1953, just hours after a powerful tornado ripped through Sarnia’s downtown. The twister damaged 250 buildings, left dozen of families homeless and caused $5-million [...]

2015-08-21T14:44:57-04:00August 21st, 2015|Comments Off on Sarnia’s Evolving Downtown
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The Tornado of ‘53

by Cathy Dobson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) The shock is what Dorothy Alexander remembers most of all. She had just left city hall where she worked as the switchboard operator when an F4 tornado roared through Sarnia’s downtown on May 21, 1953. It was 5:45 p.m., minutes after Alexander [...]

2015-06-23T19:37:37-04:00June 23rd, 2015|Comments Off on The Tornado of ‘53
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