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 Stephen McKenna When I was eight years old, I was asked to speak to my class about the passing of my grandfather; Patrick Kerwin, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. In a nervous voice I told them he was a warm and kind man who also happened [...]
by Mike Bradley (2015) Poets in the 1800s were the rock stars of today. One of the biggest was Walt Whitman, whose most famous and controversial poetry collection was Leaves of Grass. He started writing Leaves of Grass in the early 1850s and was still working on and revising the [...]
by Phil Egan (2015) It sits quietly on the lawn in front of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 62 on Front Street. Its massive gun is silent, but the battle tank “Calamity” still carries an unmistakeable air of deadly menace. As you might expect, there is a story behind it. [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) Sarnia was actually Canada’s second, or perhaps even third, Chemical Valley. By 1914, the year Sarnia became a city, its Imperial Oil refinery employed 1,200 workers, covered nearly 110 acres on the St. Clair River and manufactured products ranging from kerosene to [...]
