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 about five 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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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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