Local history, close to home
True things hiding beside the places families already go — a freighter under the water at Canatara, a railway tunnel dug beneath the river in 1891, a resort island most people drive past without knowing. Each one is researched, sourced, and written to be read in one sitting, most in under ten minutes.
Sarnia
An 1888 wooden freighter lies in shallow water just off the sand, towed there as a breakwater in 1923. It still surprises lifelong Sarnians — and it is one of eight wreck sites commonly mapped around the Blue Water Bridge.
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Sarnia
In 1891 the Grand Trunk dug the first international submarine railway tunnel in North America beneath the St. Clair. Then it had to work out how to breathe down there.
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St. Clair River
The quiet cottage island near Corunna was once one of the busiest summer destinations around, reached by excursion steamer and filled with hotels, dancing and holidaymakers.
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Warwick Township
The old road and the village the railway made, a Carnegie library that still lends books, a car built by hand in Watford, and a wetland that was never drained.
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Petrolia
The hard oilers who took Petrolia's drilling around the world, Victoria Hall and the money that built it, Oil Springs and the first well, a ghost or two, and a mansion on film.
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Plympton-Wyoming
The railway town that shipped Lambton's first oil, the afternoon a tornado came through in 1983, and the quiet side of Lake Huron.
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Lambton Family Hub