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Phil Egan On a summer day in the late 1950s, my father drove me to an air show at Selfridge Air Force Base near Mt. Clemens, Michigan. I was only 10 or 11 – too young to know how my father had grown up spellbound by the flying exploits of Charles Lindbergh, or that his... Read more »

Phil Egan The Sarnia Historical Society launched its most recent book in March of 2020, just as the world was shutting for the COVID-19 pandemic. Keeping the Peace is a 160-year chronicle of the Sarnia Police Service, but it also contains stories about the exploits of other local forces active over that period. They include... Read more »

By Phil Egan

By Phil Egan

By Phil Egan

By Phil Egan

Phil Egan & George Mathewson The sun rose over Sarnia into a clear, blue sky on the morning of July 1, 1867. That was the day the British North America Act took effect, forging Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into the new Dominion of Canada. It was the day parishioners would gather on... Read more »

Local startup aims to provide world with clean water Posted Forward Water’s pilot plant in Sarnia allows industrial clients to see the process in action. Photo courtesy, Grafiks Marketing and Communications and Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park. Phil Egan A small Canadian company working out of the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park is taking on one of this century’s greatest challenges —abundant access to clean water for people, farms and industry. Forward Water Technologies has de...

This small Victorian town refused to let the pandemic kill their film We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss This small Victorian town refused to let the pandemic kill their film Normal text size Advertisement In the depths of Victorias hard pandemic lockdown many screen productions ground to a halt. But in the north-western Victorian town of Robinvale, on the banks of the Murray River, one passion project forged on – with the team improvising as...