Sarnia Historical Society Our History, Your History

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Web Name: Sarnia Historical Society Our History, Your History

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Welcome PageRon Smith2020-03-03T09:05:25-05:00 Loading... The Sarnia Historical Society Welcomes YouUpcoming EventsHeritage Homes Through a New LensPurchase Our Latest BooksPhile Egan has put everything behind researching the fascinating history of The Sarnia Fire Department. Over 280 pages covering more than 180 years of fire fighting. Order your book today!Reserve Book hereOrder Soft CoverOrder Hard CoverOrder Soft CoverOrder: Hard CoverHeritage Homes: We Built This CityPost Card CollectionDave Burwell and Ron Realesmith worked tirelessly to bring the most complete Sarnia post card collection to date. Please click the picture below to enjoy themWar Remembrance ProjectThe Sarnia HistoricalSociety is proud to display the on-going work of The War Remembrance Project. Tom Slater, the person behind this project has generously donated his work to us for presentation to the public.NewsletterThe Sarnia historical Society has a monthly newsletter. To keep up-to-date on everything happening simply sign up!Sign Up!View Previous NewslettersA message from our Board Welcome!Welcome to the Sarnia Historical Society website. This is where you’ll find all of the excitement,the drama, the humour, pathos, comedy, heroism, grief and inspiration that make up Sarnia’sincredible story.For we are The Imperial City, and we do, indeed, have magical tales to tell.We made a clearing in a hardwood forest beside a powerful river, and a lake. The local Nativescalled it Aamjiwnaang, but we called it La Chute, and when the Scots, the English and the Irishcame, we called it The Rapids.We grew from five shanty log cabins to a town called Port Sarnia, and we had great adventurersand thinkers to help us grow – men named Cameron, and Vidal, and Durand. The grand steelribbon of the railways came, and we began to grow.We battled massive fires, great storms, and filled our river and lake with tragic shipwrecks.We found something black and sticky seeping out of a local creek bed. We lured a great refineryfrom London and built the North American oil industry. We sent our brave young men to fightwars in foreign lands for King and Country.We watched a gun battle unfold in our downtown streets, and we carried our finest and bravestto early graves. We cried with their families.We had fascinating leaders and wondrous characters as our mayors, newspapermen, andbusiness giants. We looked for more oil and found salt, we built industries, and we created aChemical Valley that helped the British Empire win a global war.We sent a man to Houston to help put a man on the moon, and as he did, we watched a younglad on Stag Island named Chris gaze up to the heavens and think, “I can do that.”You’ll find all of these stories here, and more. They are written at different times (watch for theyear at the beginning of each story), and they are written by historians, newspaper men andwomen, and by our own citizens. Some come from the pages of the Sarnia Observer, The SarniaJournal, the Sarnia Gazette, First Monday, Sarnia This Week, or from books written about ouramazing, and always surprising city. Others have been written especially for the SarniaHistorical Society.Like our city, this website will be constantly changing, as new stories and new adventurescreate more stories that demand to be told. We invite you to explore and enjoy Sarnia’s marvelous story.Connect on Social MediaLatest From The BlogBomber on Sentimental Journey renews old memoriesRon Smith2019-05-28T10:48:17-04:00Bomber on Sentimental Journey renews old memories Posted June [...]Read MoreLily the Pink’s compound a cure for ‘female complaints’Ron Smith2019-05-28T10:46:39-04:00Phil Egan While researching a story recently about a [...]Read MoreArtifacts donated of city officer who killed ‘Red’ RyanRon Smith2019-05-28T10:44:46-04:00Medals and other personal items of police officer and [...]Read MoreRemembering CashwayRon Smith2019-05-28T10:38:59-04:00This aerial photo circa 1970 shows the former Cashway [...]Read More

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