By Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer If all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, Sarnians can be grateful George Galloway was elected Mayor in 1926. That's because our 44th Chief Magistrate was a sports-minded politician who helped develop both Norm Perry and Tecumseh Parks. Born in [...]
By Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer He was arguably Sarnia's greatest Mayor. James C. Barr, who served two terms as the Head of Council, played a key role in the establishment of Canatara Park – the crown iewel of the City's parks system. He also pushed through a motion [...]
By Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer Six years after he helped defeat the Red Baron and his cohorts, George Andrew was called upon to shoot down Sarnia's economic troubles. Andrew, who served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, was elected our 42nd Mayor in 1924. [...]
By Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer He was an environmentalist half a century before anyone even heard of that term. George Crawford, who served as Sarnia's 40th Mayor in 1921 and 1922, was the Chief Magistrate who helped preserve the City's most treasured wilderness area. Born in Kingston on [...]
By Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer William Nisbet led what may have been the most unpopular Council in Sarnia's history. In fact, eight of his nine Councillors were swept from Office by angry voters fed up with high taxes. Nisbet, who was elected our 39th Chief Magistrate in 1919, [...]
by Lawrence A. Crich (1986) No history of early education in Sarnia would be complete without some mention of the efforts of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in Upper Canada on the St. Clair Indian Reserve. The Reserve then covered a much greater area than its modern counterpart stretching north [...]
by Charles Phelps (1980) From the 1870s the Blackwell Sideroad was the dividing line between School Section Three (Bright’s Grove School) and School Section Six (Clark’s School at Murphy Road). The children from Blackwell Sideroad east went to S.S. No. 3 and the children from Blackwell Sideroad west attended S.S. [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2009) Quilts have a lot to say, says Bob Tremain, curator at the Lambton Heritage Museum. Galleries at the county museum, located on Highway 21 near the Pinery, are covered in them these days. One gallery is filled with the county museum's summer [...]
by Jean Turnbull Elford writing in Upper Canada’s last Frontier (1982) Lambton had three railway lines when the question of bonusing the Erie and Huron arose. This line was to extend north from Erieau on Lake Erie to Sarnia. As well as giving local service, it was to be a [...]
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 [...]
