RESEARCH INFORMATION SOURCES
A – Letter provided by The City of Sarnia (Mayor Mike Bradley), courtesy of The Royal Canadian Legion
(Bill Chafe of RCL letter and list of Sarnia’s fallen soldiers, dated February, 1993)
B – Sarnia Cenotaph
Wellington St., Sarnia
C – Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Website: www.cwgc.org
(Advanced Search – War: Second World War, Served: Canadian Force, Additional Information: Sarnia)
D – Veterans Affairs Canada
Website: www.veterans.gc.ca
Includes the The Canadian Virtual War Memorial (CVWM)
Website: www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/virtualmem
E – Canada At War – Online War Memorial
Website: www.canadaatwar.ca/memorial
F – Library and Archives Canada
Website: (for Boer War): www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/south-african-war/index-e.html
Website (for WWI): www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/index-e.html
Website (for WWII): www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/war-dead/index-e.html
G – Sarnia Collegiate Institute & Technical School (SCITS) World War II Memorial
www.lkdsb.net/scits/memorial
H – Korea Veterans Association of Canada
Website: www.kvacanada.com
I – Chatham Daily News
Website: chathamdailynews.ca/2011/11/10/cushley-not-forgotten
J – Sarnia Canadian Observer: “Names of Dead Servicemen” August 26, 1946 (page 3) and
“Legion Seeks Missing Data” November 9, 1954 (page 2)
List compiled by members of the “Sarnia Memorial Committee”
Available on microfilm from Sarnia Library (Sarnia Observer Index Project)
K – Sarnia Observer – In Appreciation of those Who Served 2011 Edition – November 2011
http://virtual.theobserver.ca/doc/Sarnia-Observer/vets_feature2011/2011111401/11.html#0
L – “The Books of Remembrance” in the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, Ottawa
Veterans Affairs Canada-The Books of Remembrance
www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/collections/books/listing
M – “They Shall Grow Not Old – A Book of Remembrance”, Les Allison & Harry Hayward
Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Inc., Brandon, Manitoba 1992
N – Sarnia Observer Index Project –Microfilm at Saria Library/Lambton County Archives
1886-1899, 1900-1929, 1930-1959, 2006, 2007
Births, Marriages, Obituaries and News
O – “The Sarnia Refiner” publication, February 1945.
Displayed in the Imperial Oil office in Sarnia.
P – German U-boats of World War II and World War I and Allied Warships of WWII website
Q – The Petrolia Advertiser Topic – Obituary March 22, 1945.
Available on microfilm from Lambton County Archives
R – Sarnia Collegiate History Department – Student research projects on names from school memorial plaque.
Teacher Coordinator Brian Lynch
S – “The Centurian – A Memorial”, published by Central United Church, October 1946, Sarnia, Ontario.
In Memory of Central United Church Personnel who served and sacrificed their lives.
T – The Naval Museum of Manitoba
U – Archives of British Library, US Library of Congress, Bavarian State Library
V – The Alberni Project – A tribute to the men who served on HMCS Alberni
W – Warsailors.com – Norwegian Merchant Marine Fleet and Ships
X – For Posterity’s Sake Canadian Genealogy – Royal Canadian Navy
www.forposterityssake.ca/NAVY-Home-Port.htm
Y – Shipbuilding History – Construction records of US and Canadian Shipbuilders
Z – “True Canadian Heroes at Sea”, Arthur Bishop
Prospero Books – Key Porter Books Limited, Toronto, Ontario 2006
2A – “Far Distant Ships”, Joseph Schull
Stoddart Publishing Co. Limited, Toronto, Ontario 1987
2B – Words of Valediction and Remembrance – Canadian Epitaphs of the Second World War, Eric MeGeer
Vanwell Publishing Limited, St. Catharines, Ontario 2008
2C – Maple Leaf Legacy Project – Volunteer endeavor, aim is to provide an online archive containing a photo
of every Canadian War Grave from the South African War, the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War and all United Nations Peacekeeping Missions.
2D – Ancestry.ca – Contains information such as Birth, Marriage, & Death Records, Census and Military records,
War Graves Registers, and other information. www.ancestry.ca
2E – Legion Magazine
“Flashpoint Korea”, David J. Bercuson, July/August 2013: Pages 20-23.
“The Happiest Prisoners”, Graham Chandler, March 15, 2012
“Heroic Dog of Hong Kong Recognized”, by admin, January 11, 2001
2F – Canadian War Brides – Information on the Canadian War Brides of WWII.
2G – Canadian Great War Project – World War I Database
www.canadiangreatwarproject.com
2H – “Lambton Remembers”, John Collins
Lambton Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, Sarnia, Ontario 1998
2I – Canadian War Museum –
Exhibitions such as ‘Canada and the South African War’, ‘Canada and the First World War’, and Poems
www.warmuseum.ca/cvm/exhibitions/boer/boerwarhistory_e.html
www.warmuseum.ca/cvm/exhibitions/guerre/home-e.aspx
2J – “Old Enough to Fight – Canada’s Boy Soldiers in the First World War”, Dan Black and John Boileau
James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers, Toronto, Ontario 2013
2K – “The Great War – A Combat History of the First World War”, Peter Hart
Oxford University Press, Oxford, Great Britain, 2013
2L – War Diaries of the First World War – Library and Archives Canada
Website: www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/020152_e.html
2M – Royal Air Forces Register of Associations – Code Names and RAF Vocabulary
www.associations.rafinfo.org.uk/code_names.htm
2N – The Canadian Encyclopedia
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en
2O – Tribute to RCAF Station Centralia
www.rcafcentralia.blogspot.co.uk
2P – The Canadian Letters & Images Project – Department of History at Vancouver Island, an online archive
of the Canadian war experience, from any war, as told through letters and images of Canadians themselves.
www.canadianletters.ca/collectionsMain.php
2Q – The Royal Canadian Legion – Legion website
2R – The Memory Project – Stories of Service and Sacrifice
2S – Canadian Wings – History of the Royal Canadian Air Force
2T – Canadian Military Heritage Project
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com~canmil/index.html
2U – “Lambtons Own – The 149th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force”, John M. Collins
Lambton Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, Sarnia, Ontario April 2000
2V – “Lambton Remembers – The People of Lambton County Who Made the Supreme Sacrifice in the Boer War, In
World Wars I & II and in Korea”, John M. Collins
Lambton Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society, Sarnia, Ontario 1999
2W – Canadian Naval Memorial Trust and HMCS Sackville
2X – “The Torch Still Burns – A History of St. Paul’s United Church”, John Milner
Pole Printing
2Y – The Canadian Red Cross
www.redcross.ca/who-we-are/about-the-canadian-red-cross
2Z – The Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
3A – Corps of Canadian Firefighters in England During WWII
3B – Canadian Geographic
www.canadiangeographic.ca/magazine/apr14/canada-world-war-1-centennial.asp
3C – Multicultural Canada: Our Diverse Heritage
www.multiculturalcanada.ca
3D – They Too Shall Remember – Project to engage and educate Canada’s youth
3E – The Canada Veterans Hall of Valour
www.canadaveteranshallofvalour.com
3F – The Juno Beach Centre Association
www.junobeach.org/about-us/
3G – National Defence and the Canadian Forces
www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/ol-lo/vol-tom-4/2417-eng.asp
www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/en/3-wing/414-squadron.page
3H – Flying for Your Life – Canadian Fighter Pilot & Air Gunner Museum
www.flyingforyourlife.com/gallary/414
3I – Manitoba Military Aviation Museum
www.manitobamilitaryaviationmuseum.com/PDF/414Squadron.pdf
3J – Aircrew Remembered
3K – “The Gallant Hussars: A History of the 1st Hussars Regiment”, Michael R. McNorgan
1st Hussars Cavalry Fund, London, Ontario, 2004
www.petroliaheritage.com/MAJOR GEORGE STIRRETT.pdf
3L – Horse-Canada.com
wwi/
3M – CBC News – Story on Morning Glory
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/morning-glory-canada-s-own-wwi-war-horse-1.1259736
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/remembering-canada-s-role-in-ww-ii-1.871801
3N – FirstWorld War.com – Multimedia history of World War I
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/forgottenarmy.htm
3O – Canada’s History Magazine
www.canadashistory.ca/home.aspx
3P – Smithsonian.com – Smithsonian Institution website
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-shock-of-war-55376701/
3Q – Government of Canada
Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1303129235933/1303130595693
Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada – Paris Peace Conference
http://www.international.gc.ca/odskelton/macmillan.aspx?lang=eng
3R – Toronto Star – The Toronto Encyclopedia of World War One
Saturday, August 2, 2014
3S – Firstworldwar.com – A multimedia history of World War One
http://www.firstworldwar.com/index.htm
3T – Parks Canada website – Canada’s First World War Internment Operations
http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/banff/natcul/histoire-history/internement-internment.aspx
3U – Petrolia Heritage website – History of George Stirrett’s service, Gene Smith
http://www.petroliaheritage.com/MAJOR GEORGE STIRRETT.pdf
3V – Canada A Country by Consent – A National History of Canada
http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/1920s/1920s-02-league-nations.html
3W – United Nations Website – History of the United Nations
http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/history/
3X – White River website – History of Winnie the Pooh
http://www.whiteriver.ca/article/winnie-the-pooh-6.asp
3Y – “Canadians at War – Vol. 2, A Guide to the Battlefields and Memorials of World War II”, Susan Evans Shaw
Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, New Brunswick, 2014
3Z – “Conduct Unbecoming – The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy”, Howard
Margolian. University of Toronto Press Incorporated, Toronto, 1998
4A – Canadian Soldiers in the 20th Century
4B – Bomber Command Museum of Canada
http://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/commandlosses.html
4C – The Great War 1914-1918 UK website
http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/john-mccrae-in-flanders-fields.htm
4D – Aboriginal Veterans Tribute Honour List (and Canadian Aboriginal Veteran National Alliance)
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~jeffrey1/tribute.htm
a – Jerry Carol (phone), a relative of Robert Charles Dionne, confirming Robert was a St.Pat’s graduate.
b – Lyn Westfall (e-mail), daughter of William Wilfred Henry Lavers, confirming her fathers information.
c – Bill Bullock (phone), nephew of Hugh Frances Hegarty. Provided information about his uncle
(eg. correct spelling of name), and has records of his military career and service.
d – Kevin McHarg (e-mail), National Director-Hero to Hero Team Canada
and Marsha Guthrie (e-mail), niece of W.R. Graham. Both provided information on W.R. Graham.
e – Garry McBean (e-mail). Provided information on J.E. Quinn.
f – Richard Prudom (e-mail). Provided information on his uncle C.A. Nash.
g – Dan McCaffrey (e-mail). Reporter, historian and author, provided stories on Daniel Crone (Boer War, printed
November 2005), Charles Henry Living (WWII, printed November 2007) and Mayor William Paul.
h – Jeff Beeler. Lambton County Library, Sarnia Branch
Contributed portion of information on Max Berger
i – Cathy Jolicoeur (e-mail), niece of John (Jack) Fowlie, provided information about her uncle.
j – Shawn O’Keefe. Grandson of James L. Wright, provided information about his grandfather.
k – Ian Mason – Provided information on Ross Stevens
l – Trevor Sherwood – Provided information on Gordon Fordyce
m – Alice Frew – Provided information on Gerald Kelly
n – City of Sarnia Records – Courtesy of Mayor Mike Bradley
o – Joseph Paithouski – Provided information on his uncle Michael Paithowski
p – Don Poland – Provided information on the Poland family including sons Brent and Mark.
q – George Mathewson – The Sarnia Journal
r – Errol and Elaine Cushley – Provided information on William Cushley
s – Henry Nevile – Provided information on Herbert Nevile
t – George Pitfield – Lay minister at St. Clair United Church
Aamjiwnaang First Nations, Sarnia.
u – Lou Howard – Former crew member of the H.M.C.S. Sarnia
v – Janet Chapple – Relative of Percy and Maud Guertin