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Tips and Tricks: Ancestry Library Edition

Posted on Friday, May 18, 2012 12:00 AM

Ancestry Library Edition is a wonderful tool that is available free of charge at library branches across Lambton County. If you aren't interested in acquiring a personal subscription to Ancestry.ca, the Library Edition is an excellent alternative. The more you know about the website's databases and search functions, the more information you can find about your ancestors. Here are some tips and tricks I learned in a recent webinar hosted by ProQuest that will help you navigate Ancestry Library Edition...

The Saga of the Moorings

Posted on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 12:00 AM

[IMAGE] The Old and the New: The Moorings before the structure's demolition. A new home was built on the property with the intention of removing the Moorings and it can be seen in the background.

It is always disappointing for the heritage community when historic buildings are demolished. The County of Lambton dealt with this issue recently when one of the county's oldest homes, a lakefront brick fortress in Hillsboro called "the Moorings," was demolished. Efforts to save the structure by the county's...

Lambton County's Titanic Connection: Oil Driller James McCrie

Posted on Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:00 AM

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The world remembers the R.M.S. Titanic this month as April 15, 2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the ship's untimely demise. The sinking of the Titanic cost 1,514 deaths in one of the worst peacetime marine disasters in history. Lambton County may seem like it's far away from the Titanic disaster, but there is an intimate connection: one Sarnia man lost his life.


Local resident James McCrie was born in 1879, one of Matthew and Roxanna McCrie's eight children. Matthew and Roxanna were a farming...

The Imperial City

Posted on Monday, April 02, 2012 12:00 AM

Sarnia is celebrating its 100th year of incorporation as a city in 2014. There are numerous events, tributes, and celebrations occurring all year long and the Sarnia Centennial Celebration Committee is promoting many on their website. The Lambton County Museums department is also joining the celebrations! The feature exhibit at the Lambton Heritage Museum (LHM) this year is Sarnia: We Built This City which explores how Sarnia has changed, the challenges it has seen, and where the City is going...

Local History Gem! The Sarnia Observer Negative Collection

Posted on Saturday, March 17, 2012 12:00 AM

The Sarnia Observer Negative Collection is one of the most interesting and accessible collections at the Lambton Room. It is comprised of over 58,000 negatives of photographs that appeared in the Sarnia Observer in the 1950s and 1960s. In this blog post, I'm going to examine what makes this collection so interesting, and take a look into the future by acknowledging a recent donation from the Observer with new decades of material!


[IMAGE] Sarnia Observer Negative: Sep. 29, 1950, SCITS Blue...

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