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The Day the Railroad Came to Town

By Phil Egan special for The Sarnia Journal We breeze along the 402 Highway today with exasperation if a construction delay makes our journey longer than an hour. For Sarnia’s early settlers, it was never that easy. Founding father Malcolm Cameron had built the road to London, but from spring [...]

2015-08-29T19:20:23-04:00August 29th, 2015|Comments Off on The Day the Railroad Came to Town
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The Great Western Railway

by Jean Turnbull Elford writing in Canada West’s Last Frontier (1982) Nothing could look better to the pioneers of Lambton than a railway when what roads they had were almost impassable and water transportation was halted by ice for months on end. In 1836 with commendable optimism the settlers of [...]

2015-08-13T19:45:14-04:00August 13th, 2015|Comments Off on The Great Western Railway
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