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Post by Steve on Jul 23, 2010 19:21:43 GMT -5
Feel free to introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your interests by replying to this thread...
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Post by Steve on Jul 23, 2010 19:23:59 GMT -5
Hi Everyone, I created this site to take a look at Lambton County's history from a little different perspective.I've been a history buff since I was a kid. Particularly, Canadian and local history. I'm hoping this site will become a place where people will share their information, photos and stories on Lambton's history to better preserve and make it available for everyone. Besides history, my interests include: computers, live sound production and recording, hiking, biking, canoeing and anything outdoors, railways and model railroading, maps and geography, astronomy, and a large variety of other interests... You can contact me directly at: lost_lambton_found@yahoo.caCheers, Steve |
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johnny5
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I have been studying Sarnia, ON history for more than 30 years. I'm now 'Retired' due to illness.
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Post by johnny5 on Jul 26, 2010 20:53:27 GMT -5
Hi Everyone, my name is John Rochon and I'm a native of Sarnia. Like Steve, I have been interested in local history since I was a kid and I too have been frustrated by the lack of information that's been recorded in local histories, so I've been doing my own research for the past 30 or more years (yikes!!) I am also a member of the Sarnia Heritage Committee and I collect photos of Sarnia-Lambton. Among my other interests are photography, walking, reading, singing, old movies, antique sound recordings and players, baking, flea-markets, genealogy, etc., etc. I too feel that local history should not just be read but experienced, even if it's just going to the site and taking photos, you can gain a deeper appreciation for the facts you have learned. I think local history should be a part of our school curriculum. To see some of my historic photos, visit me on Flickr.com (I'm snap-happy1) or visit my Facebook site: Do You Remember - Places that no longer exist in Sarnia. [admin edit: added hyperlinks] |
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Post by djchuckee on Oct 26, 2010 11:31:52 GMT -5
Hi Steve;
DJChuckee here. I have been a big history bug of Lambton County for years. I have many pictures of old buildings in Sarnia and Bayview Park in Point Edward. I can make copies if anyone is interested.
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Post by stephanie on Nov 7, 2010 0:23:52 GMT -5
I've always LOVED history and can't read about it enough. My favourite TV channel is the History channel of course and I often drive onto the shoulder of roads because I'm staring at old houses or barns. My favourite TV show of all time is Little House on the Prairie and I actually named my daughter Laura from that show! haha!
I love all history though and can read about it for hours on end.
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Post by bill57 on Nov 24, 2010 14:08:36 GMT -5
Hello, My name is Bill McLaughlin and I'm a native of Sarnia.
I have always had an interest and respect for the old and historic.
My parents were born in the teens, dad in 1910 and mom in 1916
, they were a link to old Sarnia Lambton. The house where I live
now is where my mother grew up, I believe it was built in the
1870s. I believe it is important to document what still remains
because it could be gone tomorrow, so much is gone already.
I have many old photos that I have taken over the years that I
would like to share with you.
My other interests include: old cars, old & antique radios & tvs,
photography, music etc.
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Post by restoman on Dec 9, 2010 22:31:32 GMT -5
My name is Mike Miller, I'm originally from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
I've been here since 1984, married a Courtright girl and have become more and more interested in local history.
We live in Sarnia, our house was built in 1905, just up the street from the old gaol.
Like bill57 (hey Bill!), anything old piques my interest.
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Post by desmondtimp on Jan 25, 2011 19:15:34 GMT -5
Hi and thanks for offering lambton Lost and found Steve and John.I too am very intersted in Sarnia's past.There is so much history in this city,and a great city it is.Where else can you still live
and not have to commute 1 hours drive just to get to work.Look at our beautiful parks and the water.One here doesnt need to work on wallstreet to be able to afford a simple home.
Sarnia has its problems,but I wouldn't live anywhere else.Perhaps I would move as far as Brights Grove ,but thats it.
My mother loved this town(Patricia Anne(Smith)Timperley1943-1998 and she loved to take me when I was real young to Lakeview Cemetary and pay our respects to our ancestors inthe summer months.Shes the one that showed me the Alexander MacKenzie monument.
On my Smith side,we have a local relative Oriole Munroe,from Point Edward who has made many historical buildings.One that comes to mind is her painting of the Lawerence House,as well as the Bluewater bridge and numerous other landmarks around the city.
I beleive we are related to Sheppard's whose name was used as a Sarnia Street name.There was a stroy that My g g g grandparents owned either the Vendomme at one point or The Belchamber,or the Colinial not sure which one(Sheppards).Some of the names linked to my Smith line are,TheRyans,Adams,BELROSES,Wyonches and Munroes.Many of these relatives also at one time lived in Tobermory,where the names I have mentioned are predominate.
My mother had inheritated some land in Tobermory after my grandfather Roy V Smith died 1911-1961.
IF I were to hold a family reunion o both sides,we ovefill the CEP Hall.
I was wondering if you could confirm or deny the Shepard onwership of these 3 downtown landmarks.
Anyways thanks for giving me a place to go to check out Sarnia past.
John E timperley
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johnny5
Full Member
I have been studying Sarnia, ON history for more than 30 years. I'm now 'Retired' due to illness.
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Post by johnny5 on Mar 10, 2011 17:40:10 GMT -5
Hi John!
It's good to hear from you, and also to remember your mother - she was a wonderful person and I think of her often.
So far as I know, none of those names were involved with the hotels, but then that's just from information I've found in the old Sarnia Observer. So, they may very well have been, but as of now I don't know.
Sorry it took so long to get back to you - my computer died and I've just got back online today. Hope you and family are well.
John.
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Post by hardoiler on Apr 3, 2011 12:24:11 GMT -5
Hi All
As you see I am a Hard Oiler. I too am interested in History (Sarnia and Petrolia) and old pictures. I would love to find a site to explore more about my family etc. But i am cheap and not willing to pay.
I used to have a link to explore old pictures and newspaper articles but I lost everything with computer problems. Does anyone have this link? I would love to see old pictures and read articles on my family of when they first came to the area. Or of my parents and their endeavors in highschool (lccvi) any and all links appreciated or even a push in the right direction. I am not interested in a going to the library to search and with technology today i figured there must be sites available.
I like the site very much and have lost track of time looking and reading alot of your posts and pictures. Thank you all for sharing!
keep up the good job everyone!
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Post by jeremy on Apr 3, 2011 18:19:28 GMT -5
Hi there! I grew up in Montreal and live in Toronto, I have no excuse for being interested in Lambton history, apart from being married to a Sarnia girl! I actually got interested in Lambton railways by a really indirect route : shopping at Meijers! Remember the large photos of the streetcars and commuter rail lines there? I thought they were fascinating (my wife somewhat less so!), and, looking for more information on them, found out about Lambton's Lost Railways instead...
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Post by amboyduke on Jul 28, 2011 20:07:41 GMT -5
Hello Steve...
GREAT SITE...!
I am a Canada Southern modeller and your maps are FABULOUS!
I model 1953, and I realize most of what you have found was probably drastically altered by '53, but it is still mighty useful to me.
Thanks!
I will be taking some "modeller's license" with some of the industries, but Petrolia, Brigden and Courtright were great to see re: the track configuration. Once again, I will be adding a few tracks and industrial spurs to my over all branchline operations to make it a bit more interesting, but your info really helps me greatly.
Hoping you can find more, especially on the Canada Southern end of things.
Eric Roth
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Post by poohbah03 on Aug 29, 2011 20:38:19 GMT -5
Just checking back in to see what is new. I am not from Lambton but I married a girl originally from Sarnia and later Forest. My main interest was piqued by Steve's posting of the footings of an old bridge south of Alvinston. Had a great tour of the area this spring with Steve and have since come up with a plan of the original bridge based on the only photograph that has been found of the bridge. Currently I am constructing a model of the bridge in N gauge (it will be almost 6 feet long!). What to do with it when I am finished has yet to be decided by my railroad president (my wife!). Enjoy reading all the info about Lambton on this site - excellent way to keep history alive.
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Post by sunshine on Sept 15, 2013 20:35:10 GMT -5
Hello... very interesting site! I have lived here for about 20 years and the history in Lambton County is very interesting. Attended the Hillside Cemetery walk this past weekend in Petrolia. It was very informative and enjoyable. I also attended Last years Lambton Doors Open and learned so much about the history here. Keep up the great work!  |
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Post by roberts on Nov 27, 2013 22:32:49 GMT -5
Greetings to all. My name is Robert S Smith, and live in Sarnia. I am doing my family genealogies and studying old histories. I look at old photos as part of the histories. I find this site very well to study and learn the old history of Lambton County. I can see a lot of work went to this development. I like reading the comments. I grew up on a farm just outside of Thedford, Ontario. In 1969 I started work in Sarnia at Huron Cable TV, after studying tube type electronics at DeVry in Toronto. Huron Cable TV was owned at the beginning by F. Cassin. About a year or so later I got to know his son, W. Cassin and we use to go to the Balmoral Hotel in Point Edward for the draft beer. One time he mentioned that his early relatives owned a mansion in Point Edward, that he said was really huge. The next day he brought a picture in to show me, and said this was the Spetz mansion. It was like this photo at snap-happy1 . I asked who the gentleman was in the photo, he said he did not know, but he will find out. Anyways, shortly after I left Huron Cable TV, and joined up with Bell Telephone, and they sent me to Labrador and northern Quebec for 2 years. So I forget all about this, until I see this photo again at snap-happy1's photo set last week. When I looked at it, I felt like the deja-vu. I can still see W. Cassin in a buckskin coat showing me the photo in front of the cable tv store at north-west corner of Colborne & Cathcart streets in Sarnia. Like become of the big flash-back. I go to look up for the Spetz family, and found this Sarnia Observer article dated June 28, 1889. Mrs Spetz died in June 1889, at home of a heart attack. �It is with sorrow we write of the death of Mrs Spetz, the beloved wife of Mr J. Spetz, of the Dominion House. The sad event occurred at the family residence, Michigan avenue, on Tuesday afternoon, from heart trouble from which she had been ailing for some time past. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the community in their sad beereavement.�The Province of Ontario Gazetteer and Directory, dated 1869, lists a Jacob Spetz as a hotel-keeper and a painter.The 1891 Ontario Census lists the occupations of a Jacob Spetz, 57 years, as a carpenter, his son Albert Spetz, 23 years, is single, is listed as hotel-keeper, his daughter Bertha as hotel-waiter, and his daughter Isadora (Spetz) Keays as hotel-manager, all living in Point Edward. The 1901 Ontario census lists Albert Spetz at 33 years as married, and occupation as hotel-keeper. His sister Isadora (Spetz)Keays, along with her children, Stella, Albert and Margarete, are listed as in the same household as her brother, is widowed, and occupation listed as house-keeper. In 1902 Albert Spetz died of mennigitis. The 1911 census shows Isadora (Spetz) Keays has moved from Point Edward, to Richard St. in Sarnia, with her children Stella, Albert and Margarete, and nephew Albert Cassin, age 13 years. I keep wondering if the Spetz family owned a hotel in Point Edward? I wonder what was its name, if any? Dominion House? A comment at snap-happy1's photo set says the Ex-Servicemen's Club is now at the location where the Spetz residence use to be. So little of the history of 'something' so big. As for W. Cassin, I have lost all contact. While looking further through snap-happy1's photo stream, I came to an old photo the Hotel Bedard In Courtright, with further aimless searching for ---something, I come to Lost Lambton, Found with the photo of the old concrete ruins of Courtright Salt Factory. I remember passing this in the middle 1970s many times while working for Bell Telephone. At that time their was no roof, just the cement structure arches and the walls, the stack was still up. Those remains were knocked down in the late 1980s-early 1990s, around that time from what I can recall. --and as for the Courtright Hotel, that be another past adventure relived. Now a vacant lot. |
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Post by Eric Roth on Jan 25, 2014 13:37:09 GMT -5
Hello;
I have no idea where my interest came for this area of Ontario except to say I am a model railroader who recreates the old St. Clair Branch of the Canada Southern that came into Petrolia and Oil Springs on it's way to Courtright.
I model 1953. I find it an interesting little branch in the fact that it had 2 smaller branch lines extending from the main one. That is an unusual feature for most railroad branches.
I have a keen interest in just how and where the oil was refined.
If anyone can help me with this info, it would be much appreciated.
I do know the oil from Oil Springs and Petrolia had at least some sort of basic or preliminary refinement in Petrolia, and that the refinery there closed in 1952.
Also, I believe, the oil was shipped by rail tankcar to Sarnia.
Initially picked up by the Canada Southern and then intercghanged with the Pere Marquette/Chesapeake and Ohio at Courtright Jct.
Was the oil still classed as "crude" when shipped?
How did they start the oils refinering process in Petrolia?
What was the parrafin and tar connection to the oil?
If anyone knows exactly how the process was undertaken, I would be very grateful. The more info/detail the better.
I model Petrolia on my layout and these photos on this site have been a great help...
If anyone is interested, the Canada Southern webpage has old CASO track diagrams for every town on the old St. Clair branch, and Petrolia has about 6 different maps, from different dates.
If anyone would like to share their knowledge with me, my email address is:
raeroth@bell.net
I enjoy this site and hope to see it expand a bit...?? :-)
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Post by misterboz on May 21, 2014 18:13:49 GMT -5
Hi All,
My name is Bob Boswell. My great grandfather, Nathaniel Boswell was involved in many activities in the Oil Springs, Brigden, Wyoming area from 1865 to his death is 1908. Having been given a copy of his biography in the Lambton County Commemorative Biography, I became fascinated by his accomplishments and have since set out to find as much as I could about him. Several local biographies have been written. I started in England and in so doing started to find errors in the biographies and decided to try and write one myself. One trip to England, several to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, a trip to Lambton county in 2011 and now I am about to head back again with a list of properties that he was involved with to see where they were and if still existing. I came upon this site just today as a result of my many fruitless searches for anything about an Eureka Mill that he owned I had a picture. So here I am and I posted the picture in the forum of the Mustard Mill. |
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Post by ashleydesjarlais on Sept 2, 2014 22:37:56 GMT -5
Hey there!
My name is Ashley, I'm 29 and I just moved to Petrolia from London! What a great decision that was, we love PTown and all the little towns of Lambton County and what they have to offer!
My mom and I are big into metal detecting and history, and the two go hand in hand. I have just spent the past hour on this site and WOW, thank you to everyone who has taken the time and effort to make this such an informative site, I have learned more in the past hour then I have in my couple years of high school history class, lol!
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Post by jlclifford on Nov 1, 2016 13:22:16 GMT -5
I just found that my cousins emigrated from Warminster Wiltshire to Warwick. Caroline thingyhingy with husband Edwin Parker in 1855. Then in 1870 Charles and Elizabeth thingyhingy and family, then in 1891 I think brother Albert & Bessie thingyhingy arrived in Warwick with children. I live in Kingsville Ontario, and have been doing family history research for many years. I have the thingyhingy ancestors going back many years. Great site.
It keeps changing the name CUNthingy.
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Post by jlclifford on Nov 1, 2016 13:27:25 GMT -5
Don't know why it won't accept the name CUNthingy!
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Post by jlclifford on Nov 1, 2016 13:29:22 GMT -5
Name should be CUNthingy
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Post by bender on Jul 5, 2019 10:35:49 GMT -5
Hi all My name is George Couckuyt. I'm mostly interested in northern Lambton County (Bozanquet twp.) I am a third-generation resident. My grandfather purchased the property I currently own from The Canada Company in 1943 and worked for the Department of Lands and Forests in what is now Pinery Park. He laid out many of the roads and camping areas starting in 1956. I look forward to being a member of this group.
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Post by pwhistle on Dec 12, 2023 11:49:40 GMT -5
My name is Paul Whistlecraft. My wife and I have only lived in Forest since early 2020 but we really like living here. I just recently got involved with some folks at the Forest Museum and we have started a project to build some models of the buildings that were here in Forest in the mid-1950s, along with an HO scale representation of the railway that passed through town back then. We're looking for photos, maps, etc. to help us with our replication.
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