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Plotting the unseen: Oil and fire in Wallaceburg

“A new oil refining company with a capital of $200,000, to be known as the Empire Refining Company, was launched at Wallaceburg Saturday last, and...

John Martinello

An oasis? On the Sydenham River? In Wallaceburg? Where’s the desert? You wouldn’t know it now but, yes, there once was an oasis on the...

Slowly — hand over hand — he pulls 20 metres of yellow rope through the murky depths of the mighty Sydenham River in Wallaceburg. At the end of...

In my last story, “The day it came crashing down,’ I wrote about Roger Van Bellinghen’s memories of working at the Dominion Glass Company...

It’s 9:30 a.m., Monday, Sept. 16, under a see-forever arch of cloudless, brilliant-blue sky. A gentle east breeze rattles the dried weeds and...