- Mike Weir
Michael Richard Weir O.Ont. (born May 12, 1970) is a professional golfer on the PGA Tour. Weir was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University (majoring in Recreation Management), and he turned pro in 1992. His first PGA Tour win came at the 1999 Air Canada Championship in Surrey, British Columbia. The victory made him the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event in Canada in 45 years. - Roger Gallaway
Roger John Gallaway, PC, LL.B, BA (born May 23, 1948 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2006, representing the riding of Sarnia—Lambton for the Liberal Party. Gallaway has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario and an LL.B from the University of Windsor. - Caroline di Cocco
Caroline Di Cocco is a politician in Ontario, Canada. She is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Sarnia—Lambton for the Ontario Liberal Party. Di Cocco was born in Fontechiari, in Frosinone, Italy, and moved to Canada at a young age. She was educated at the Royal Conservatory of Toronto, and worked as a music teacher before entering political life. - Steve Molitor
Steve Molitor (born April 4, 1980 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian professional boxer. He is currently the International Boxing Federation(IBF) super-bantamweight champion. He has a record of 24-0 (with 10 wins by KO). On April 21, 2004 Molitor defeated Hugo Dianzo for the vacated NABA North American title, by an unanimous decision. On November 10, 2006 he knocked out Michael Hunter in the fifth round for the vacated IBF super-bantamweight championship title. - Doug Armstrong
Douglas "Doug" Armstrong is the current General Manager of the NHL's Dallas Stars. He has been with the organization since 1991, and was appointed as General Manager January 25, 2002. He won the Stanley Cup with the Stars in 1999. Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Armstrong is the son of NHL Hall of Fame linesman Neil Armstrong, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1991. - Dino Ciccarelli
Dino Ciccarelli (born February 8, 1960 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian former professional hockey player who played 19 seasons in the National Hockey League, primarily with the Minnesota North Stars. He scored 1,200 points in his NHL career, and is the North Stars' all-time leader in that statistic. Dino is considered by many to be one of the best players in league history to never have won a Stanley Cup. - R. Murray Schafer
R. Murray Schafer is Canada's pre-eminent composer and is known throughout the world. In an era of specialization, R. Murray Schafer has shown himself to be a true renaissance man. Born in Sarnia, Ontario in 1933, Murray Schafer has won national and international acclaim not only for his achievement as a composer but also as an educator, environmentalist, literary scholar, visual artist and provocateur. - Shawn Burr
Shawn Burr (born on July 1, 1966 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada) is a retired Canadian ice hockey centreman. Burr played in the NHL for parts of 16 seasons from 1984-2000. Burr was drafted 7th overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft. Burr played 878 career NHL games, scoring 181 goals and 259 assists for 440 points. He also garnered 1,069 penalty minutes. In Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, Telly's Place, a local restaurant & bar, … - Andy Brandt
Andrew S. (Andy) Brandt (born June 11, 1938 in London, Ontario) is a former politician and public administrator in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Progressive Conservative from 1981 to 1990, and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. He later served as interim leader of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1987 to 1990. Brandt was educated at the University of Waterloo, … - Susan Clark
Susan Clark (born March 8, 1940 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian actress, best known as Katherine Papadapolis in the TV sitcom "Webster". She is married to her "Webster" co-star Alex Karras. They met when they costarred in the TV movie, "Babe", in which she played Babe Didrikson Zaharias, and he played her husband, professional wrestler George Zaharias. Clark played Dr. Cleo Markham in the movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project", … - Michael A. Brown
Michael A. "Mike" Brown, MPP (born April 18, 1950 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a politician in Ontario, Canada and the current Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He sits in the Ontario legislature representing the northern riding of Algoma—Manitoulin for the Ontario Liberal Party. Brown was educated at the University of Western Ontario and Humber College, and worked as a funeral director before entering public life. - Malcolm Cameron
Malcolm Cameron was a Canadian businessman and politician. He was born at Trois-Rivières in Lower Canada in 1808 and grew up in Lanark County in Upper Canada. At the age of 15, he found work in the Montreal area but later returned to Perth to complete his schooling. In 1828, he became a merchant in the area. In 1836, he was elected to the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada representing Lanark as a moderate Reformer. - Bob Huget
Bob Huget (born in Saskatchewan) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Bob Rae. Raised in Regina, Huget worked in the oil and oil exploration business in Alberta and British Columbia before entering politics. He also became the owner and operator of a small livestock buying company in 1986, … - Jerry Butler
Jerry Butler (born February 27, 1951 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a retired a Canadian ice hockey forward. Butler started his National Hockey League career with the New York Rangers in 1972. He would also play for the St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Winnipeg Jets, and Toronto Maple Leafs. He retired after the 1983 season. - Pat Stapleton
Patrick James "Pat" Stapleton (born July 4, 1940 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ice hockey defenceman who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League and the World Hockey Association. Stapleton is also known by the nickname of "Whitey". He is the father of Mike Stapleton, who had a lengthy career in the NHL as well. - David Boushy
David Boushy (born January 25, 1932 in Lebanon) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999. Boushy was educated at Narj' Oyoun National College in Lebanon. He worked as a senior technician for Esso Chemicals after moving to Canada, and was the founder and editor of the "Sarnia Visitor's Guide". Boushy served for twenty-two years on the Sarnia City Council, … - Dave Madden
Dave Madden (December 17, 1931) is a Canadian actor. He was born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, but was raised in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA. - Jamie Hislop
Jamie Hislop (born January 20, 1954 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada) is a retired Canadian ice hockey forward. Hislop started his National Hockey League career with the Quebec Nordiques in 1979. He also played for the Calgary Flames. He retired the NHL after the 1984 season. He later became an assistant coach for the Calgary Flames. - Hugh Richardson
Hugh Richardson (21 July, 1826 - 15 July, 1913) was a stipendiary magistrate for the Saskatchewan district of the North-West Territories. Richardson was the man who, at the conclusion of the 1885 trial of Louis Riel, sentenced Riel to hang. He was born in London, England in 1826 and came to York (later Toronto) with his family in 1831. He studied at Osgoode Hall, was called to the bar in 1847 and set up practice in Woodstock. - William McGregor
William McGregor (June 24 1836-May 14 1903) was a Canadian businessman and political figure. He represented Essex in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1874 to 1878 and from 1891 to 1900. He was born in Sarnia, Upper Canada in 1836. He supplied horses to the Union Army during the American Civil War; he was president of the Walkerville Wagon Company Limited. McGregor served as warden for Essex County from 1869 to 1870 and from 1872 to 1873. - George Andrew Olah
George Andrew Olah is a Hungarian-born American chemist. He was significant in stabilizing and in studying carbocations via superacids. He won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994. In 2005 he was awarded the Priestley Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Chemical Society. Olah studied, then taught, at what is now Budapest University of Technology and Economics. As a result of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, … - Dave Salmoni
Dave Salmoni (born 1975 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a Canadian animal trainer and zoologist. He graduated in biology from Laurentian University in Sudbury and was an apprentice animal trainer at Bowman Zoological Park. Salmoni left Canada for South Africa in 2000 to help captive animals learn the skills they needed to be released into the wild. - Tim Bernhardt
Tim Bernhardt (born January 17, 1958 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 67 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Calgary Flames - Alexander Vidal
Alexander Vidal (August 4 1819 - December 18 1906) was an Ontario land surveyor, banker and political figure. He was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada for Sarnia division from 1873 to 1906. He was born in Bracknell, Berkshire, England in 1819, the son of a captain in the Royal Navy. Vidal studied at the Royal Mathematical School at Christ's Hospital in London and came to Upper Canada with his family in 1834. - Ellen MacKinnon
Ellen MacKinnon (born April 27, 1926 in Montreal, Quebec, died February 12, 2001) was a former politician in Ontario, Canada. She was a New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1990 to 1995. MacKinnon quit school after Grade 8, and was a factory labourer during World War II. She was a homemaker for several years, and also worked as a teacher, cook, busdriver and child care worker, … - Henry Kock
Henry Kock (born 1952 - December 25, 2005) was a noted horticulturist, eco-activist, and founder of the Elm Recovery Project in Ontario. Born near Sarnia, Ontario, Kock grew up working for the family business, Huronview Nurseries. A graduate of the University of Guelph in 1977 with an emphasis on horticulture, he stayed connected to the university up until his death. Affectionately known as "Mr. Arboretum", he was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2004, … - Robert McBride
Robert McBride was born in the parish of Urblereagh near the village of Ardstraw in County Tyrone, Ireland sometime in late 1811 or early 1812. Following the death of his father McBride “secured the position of Seal Master or inspector of linens, in the Strabane Linen Hall, which position he held for six years." He then immigrated to British North America, … - Rob Palmer
Rob Palmer (born September 10, 1956 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 320 games in the National Hockey League. He would with the Los Angeles Kings and New Jersey Devils. - John Wing Jr.
John Wing, Jr. is a Canadian comedian and author from Sarnia, Ontario. His books include "None of This is Probably True", "...And the Fear Makes Us Special" and "Cup of Never Mind: New Poems." He has been a guest on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", and had his own comedy series, "Man, Woman and Child", on CBC Radio One in 2006. - Charles MacKenzie
Charles MacKenzie (October 5 1832 - September 5 1900) was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Lambton West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal member from 1889 to 1894. He was born in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland in 1832, the son of Alexander Mackenzie, and came to Canada West with his family in 1842. - Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon
Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon (24 July 1826 - 16 February 1874) was a teacher and artist known for her talents during the 1860s in Ontario, Canada. In 1966, her most comprehensive work, "An Illustrated Comic Alphabet", was published by librarians and artists who admired her work. Five years later, an annual award for illustration of Canadian children's literature published in Canada, the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award, was named for her. - Doug Farraway
Doug Farraway, nicknamed The Deacon, (born June 13, 1951 in Hamilton, Ontario) is the current sports director at the all sports radio station The Fan 590 in Toronto, Ontario. He has previously worked in such markets as Sarnia, London, Simcoe, and Hamilton. Outside of his duties as sports director, he can be heard occasionally filling in for Chuck Swirsky on "The Swirsky Show" from 1 to 4 p.m & for Daren Millard on "Hockey Central at Noon". - Duke Harris
George "Duke" Harris (born in February 25 1942 in Sarnia, Ontario) was a professional ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. He played for the Minnesota North Stars, Toronto Maple Leafs, and Vancouver Canucks between 1967 and 1970, and a variety of minor league teams. - Terry Evanswood
Terry Evanswood is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of American Magicians having been endorsed by David Copperfield and Harry Blackstone, Jr.. Evanswood is a lifetime member of the International Magicians Society. The I.M.S. recently presented Evanswood with their highest possible degree, the coveted Doctorate of Magic diploma. Evanswood has starred in review shows around the world including "Rio Ecstasy" in Cancun, … - David William Smith
David William Smith (born December 30, 1938 in Sarnia, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1990. He is not to be confused with David Paul Smith, a Liberal member of the Canadian Senate from Ontario. Smith was educated at Ridgetown Agricultural School, and worked as a farmer before entering political life. - Timothy Blair Pardee
Timothy Blair Pardee (December 11 1830-July 21 1889) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented the riding of Lambton in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1874 and Lambton West from 1875 to 1889 as a Liberal. He was born in Grenville County in Upper Canada in 1830. After his studies, he began articling in the law office of William Buell Richards, but, in 1849, he joined the California Gold Rush. - Maitland Stewart McCarthy
Maitland Stewart McCarthy (born: February 5, 1872 Orangeville, Ontario died: May 17, 1930) was a politician, lawyer and judge from western Canada. He was the son of Thomas Anthony Maitland McCarthy, a county court judge, and Jennie Frances Stewart. He studied at Trinity College School in Port Hope and Trinity University, receiving a LLB in 1896. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1897 and set up practice in Sarnia. In 1900, he married Eva Florence Watson. - Ian Munro Murray
Ian Munro Murray (born May 7, 1951) is a Canadian politician. He served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2000, as a member of the Liberal Party. Murray was born in Sarnia, Ontario, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Guelph in 1973. He had an extensive career in Canadian politics before running for office himself. Murray was a research assistant for a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1974 to 1976, … - Alfred Thomas Gurd
Alfred Thomas Gurd (March 30 1846 - after 1910) was an Ontario farmer, entrepreneur and political figure. He represented Lambton West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 1898 as a Conservative-Protestant Protective Association member. He was born in Moore Township, Lambton County in 1846, the son of William Gurd, an Irish immigrant, and was educated in Sarnia. He was an oil producer and also manufactured explosives. In 1879, he married Dell Shaw. - Kerry Fraser
Kerry Fraser (born May 30, 1952, in Sarnia, Ontario) has been a National Hockey League referee since September 1, 1973. At just tall, Fraser says that his height contributed to his longevity in the league, by forcing him to "develop techniques to ... avoid being hit" He is the NHL's most senior official, having called more than 1,550 regular season games and 250 Stanley Cup playoff games since joining the league in 1979.
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