Showing posts with label Lambton County Archives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lambton County Archives. Show all posts

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Lambton County Archives wants to hear your First World War stories


If you have First World War stories, then Lambton County Archives in Ontario wants to talk to you! You stories can still be incorporated into their exhibit Lambton At War.
 
As early as 1865, a volunteer company was formed to protect the Canadian border and Lambton County that it shares with Michigan and are separated by the St. Clair River.
 
In 1872, this Lambton regiment was given the name the St. Clair Borderers.
 
During the First World War, the Borderers supplied troops to the fighting fronts through the 70th and 149th Battalions. Men from towns such as Watford, Petrolia and Sarnia boarded troop transport trains and made their way to England were they went onto fight in the Somme, at Vimy and Ypres.
 
And many Americans who had Canadian parents who had migrated to Michigan enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War.
 
And do you know a story of someone who sewed bandages, scavenged war materials, or put together Red Cross kits? Or perhaps you know stories of men and women who stayed behind and contributed to the war efforts by working on farms or in factories and who have interesting stories to tell.
 
They have an online submission form at http://www.lambtonmuseums.ca/exhibit/lambton-war/986-2/
 
The website of the archives is http://www.lambtonmuseums.ca/heritage/
 
 
 
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