by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2009) A Sarnia war hero who became a crusader for peace has died. Joe Egan, who was also a noted community activist and businessperson, was 87. A graduate of Sarnia Collegiate Institute and Technical School, Egan volunteered for duty with the Royal Canadian [...]
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 George Mathewson The Sarnia Journal (2014) The newly released City of Sarnia War Remembrance Project documents 306 Sarnia soldiers who have fallen in war and conflicts. This is the story of one of them: John Lychowich was born on the plains of Manitoba and made his way to Sarnia [...]
By Rany Xanthopoulo First Monday (2015) The origins of the Chinese Community in our area dates back to the mid- seventies. Dr. George Lichong and Mr. Chuck Woo were the original founders and their aim was to keep the culture ties and traditions alive and to help new immigrants to [...]
by Rany Xanthopolou for First Monday (2015) The time that the first Greek people settled in Sarnia dates back to the early 1900s, but the greatest influx of Greeks migrating to Sarnia was in the early 1960s. In the late 1960s,with a growing number of Greek families in the area, [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2014) When Krystyna Stalmach found her father's war medals in an old shoebox, she wondered how many other Polish households in Sarnia had similar pieces of history stashed away. That inspired several months of work creating displays of local artifacts, all leading up [...]
by Paul Morden for the Sarnia Observer (2015) A new exhibit at the Lambton Heritage Museum is sharing, while still gathering, stories about Lambton at War, along with artifacts from the community's military history. The new exhibit, Lambton at War, runs until Nov. 11 at the Lambton County museum, located [...]
by Cathy Dobson for The Sarnia Journal (2015) There are some things you never forget. Sarnia’s Edith Vandenberg shares her memories of being imprisoned during the Second World War because she wants this generation to appreciate their freedom. Even after 72 years, Edith says she gets goosebumps when she thinks [...]
(2015) Shortly after the end of the Second World War, thousands of displaced Polish immigrants and veterans arrived in Canada, seeking to carve out a life out after their homeland had been witness to tragedy for six years. While Nazism had been wiped out in Europe, the encroachment of Stalin’s [...]
by Dan McCaffery for the Sarnia Observer (2003) If you wanted to, you could make a pretty good case that Sarnia saved the free world in 1942. It happened during the darkest days of the Second World War when Japanese troops occupied the rubber plantations of Southeast Asia, cutting off [...]
