sarnia remembers

The seven members of SCITS gymnastics team posed patiently in their athletic uniforms for another school photo. Perhaps these young men were used to having their pictures taken. Three years…

In November 1942, Leonard Meere, 18, had much going for him and even more to look forward to. The year before, he had met and fallen in love with Gwen…

On November 3, 1944, the news that George, their 19 year-old-son, had been killed in action in the Netherlands reached Issac and Anna Esser at their Sarnia home. That he…

Terry Clements admits that he didn't know his grandfather that well since he was only seven when his grandfather died in 1975; in fact, Terry didn't even know his grandfather's…

Bombardier Ken Burr, 21, was in the midst of intense fighting, thousands of kilometres from his family home on Lakeshore Road, when he began receiving care packages from Sarnia. His…

In May 1994, when it came time to name the short street that connected Exmouth Street to Quinn Drive, city council chose to name it for a fallen soldier.  Barclay…

“Where They Called Home”–that is, the placing of commemorative signs at the addresses of local fallen soldiers–has confirmed two truths, as admirable as they are unsurprising: in times of war,…

Norris “ Bud” Chadwick of Point Edward had no idea that an item he found on a nondescript road in Italy during WWII would save his life. An infantryman in…

Jane Hudson had heard the rumours that her residence on Maria Street had once been home to a soldier from Sarnia who had died in action in WWI or WWII. …

In late November 1943, Arthur and Gladys Gander were praying that something horrible had not happened to Arthur Jr., their oldest son. He was serving with the RCAF in England,…