Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Lambton between the lines, is a collaborative art-research project by Andreas Rutkauskas (Montreal), Lee Rodney (Windsor), Lisa Daniels (Curator, Gallery Lambton) and the SARCASM Collective (Sarnia) .  This site chronicles the field research and community contributions that will inform new readings of the historical, industrial and political landscapes in Lambton County. The project is funded by Gallery Lambton, The Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council.

Contributions are welcome. See contact page below for details.

Making Tracks: Secret Places (RAAW workshop)

Place is a very difficult thing to map: places are intimately subjective and shift in our memories over time; for the culmination of the Making Tracks workshop, we experimented with photography and text to try to describe the significance of a particular place in downtown Sarnia. Workshop participants were asked to take a single photograph of their special place, describe its importance by writing down (anonymously) what it was that made that particular place significant, and to make a map to the location. We traded maps among people in the group and after lunch each of us set out with another person’s map and attempted to find the location from the range of clues set out on the hand-drawn map; upon locating the special location we took a photograph of the spot described by the map.

Some maps were very detailed, others were cryptic, some had tricks to confuse the recipient of the map. At the end of the day we sat down as a group and tried to match the photographs (generally two each) with the textual descriptions, which had been anonymously transcribed.

The resulting sets of images present at least two perspectives on the same place and are powerfully marked by the accompanying text that discloses a personal memory of a place. Some of these memories match the photographs, others are displaced. What are we to make of these images: what happened where? Only the some of the participants know, leaving the game of attribution as open-ended as our memories of place.

This workshop was hosted by Gallery Lambton, and led by Andreas Rutkauskas and Lee Rodney. Participants included: Alden Ozburn, Allison Bergenhus, Alyshia Ingles, Damon O’Connor, Dana Parry, Franklin Estanol, Leith Bergenhus and Mays Ibrahim.

Feb 13
Making Tracks: Secret Places (RAAW workshop) Place is a very difficult thing to map: places are intimately subjective and shift in our memories over time; for the culmination of the Making Tracks workshop, we experimented with photography and text to try to describe the significance of a particular place in downtown Sarnia. Workshop participants were asked to take a single photograph of their special place, describe its importance by writing down (anonymously) what it was that made that particular place significant, and to make a map to the location. We traded maps among people in the group and after lunch each of us set out with another person’s map and attempted to find the location from the range of clues set out on the hand-drawn map; upon locating the special location we took a photograph of the spot described by the map. Some maps were very detailed, others were cryptic, some had tricks to confuse the recipient of the map. At the end of the day we sat down as a group and tried to match the photographs (generally two each) with the textual descriptions, which had been anonymously transcribed. The resulting sets of images present at least two perspectives on the same place and are powerfully marked by the accompanying text that discloses a personal memory of a place. Some of these memories match the photographs, others are displaced. What are we to make of these images: what happened where? Only the some of the participants know, leaving the game of attribution as open-ended as our memories of place. This workshop was hosted by Gallery Lambton, and led by Andreas Rutkauskas and Lee Rodney. Participants included: Alden Ozburn, Allison Bergenhus, Alyshia Ingles, Damon O’Connor, Dana Parry, Franklin Estanol, Leith Bergenhus and Mays Ibrahim.

Tecumseh entombment on Walpole Island.
Jan 14
Tecumseh entombment on Walpole Island.

Riding off into the Sarnia sunset last summer on Bike Tour #1.
Jan 13
Riding off into the Sarnia sunset last summer on Bike Tour #1.

Sombra for life: This is the message on the embankment of the The Darcy McKeough Floodway and the largest flood diversion project in Ontario, photographed by Glenn Ogilvie who drew our attention to this fantastic site in Sombra township.  The floodway was constructed in the 1980s to prevent the town of Wallaceburg and nearby Walpole Island from flooding.  We visited this region in early December after heavy rainfall and I was reminded of how much water constantly changes the landscape on the river delta at the mouth of Lake St. Clair.

More of this series can be seen on Glenn’s website: glennogilvie.com
Jan 12
Sombra for life: This is the message on the embankment of the The Darcy McKeough Floodway and the largest flood diversion project in Ontario, photographed by Glenn Ogilvie who drew our attention to this fantastic site in Sombra township.  The floodway was constructed in the 1980s to prevent the town of Wallaceburg and nearby Walpole Island from flooding.  We visited this region in early December after heavy rainfall and I was reminded of how much water constantly changes the landscape on the river delta at the mouth of Lake St. Clair. More of this series can be seen on Glenn’s website: glennogilvie.com
Jan 12
“Maybe we’re forgetting that we have a local population that needs to understand what we have here. You’ve got to get rid of the negatives. The media always tells the same story about Chemical Valley, the worst air etc. This is what people are bombarded with daily, instead of the good stuff. Its human nature to focus on the negative, but we need to stay focused on the positive. There’s so much here, from Grand bend down to Petrolia, all wonderful communities.
—Helen Cole, Brigden Fair”

Where the waters divide: Jon Erik Kroon took us on a tour of Walpole Island and surrounding area last weekend, the water was high after a severe rain storm earlier on in the week and it was easy to see how the river delta has defined this region for millenia. Walpole First Nation is called Bkejwanong (where the rivers divide) by the Ojibwa, Potawatomi and Ottawa who have lived there for thousands of years.
Jon Erik first took us to the Highbanks cemetery on Walpole island, (the highest location around this river delta) located precisely where the river divides and the Snye goes inland toward present-day Wallaceberg, while the St. Clair veers southwest, emptying out at Lake St. Clair a few miles down. At Highbanks, Jon Erik pointed out the areas where his father had located the sites of ancient burial plots, bundle burials, an indigenous practice throughout the Americas where the body of the deceased is arranged in a fetal position and wrapped in cloth with “gifts” for the afterlife placed nearby.  Highbanks also has a ‘modern’ end with grave sites marked by tombstones, and a monument to a historical treaty made on St. Anne’s Island (now Walpole) by Alexander McKee, representative to King George III in 1796 ceding land to the Ojibwa people and affirming the “rights and independence of all the Indian Nations”, including the rights to be “free and unmolested in their trade and hunting grounds and to pass and repass freely undisturbed to trade with whom they please.” Perhaps this is why the location is also the site for yearly pow wows in June, when Walpole becomes a gathering place for indigenous peoples throughout North America (and as far away as Latin America) to trade medicines and plants from this region.
It is also thought that Chief Tecumseh’s burial site is here, marked by a cairn on the shore of the St. Clair River.
Dec 05

Jon Erik Kroon is an artist from the Wallaceberg area (just the other side of the Lambton County line) who lives virtually off the grid on the east bank of the Snye River, just the other side of Walpole Island.  He took us on a tour of his backyard, so to speak, which includes the trails around his house as well as an intimate knowledge of Walpole Island. His connection to this area is phenomenal, having lived most of his life at his family homestead, the Kroonhaus, which was built over many years by his father, an American ex-pat who came to Canada in the 1960s to escape the bad politics of the U.S. at the time. Jon Erik’s father worked as an archeologist in the area, excavating important burial sites from Pelee Island up to Walpole and providing critical insight into the extent of human occupation in the region before European colonization.
Dec 05
Jon Erik Kroon is an artist from the Wallaceberg area (just the other side of the Lambton County line) who lives virtually off the grid on the east bank of the Snye River, just the other side of Walpole Island.  He took us on a tour of his backyard, so to speak, which includes the trails around his house as well as an intimate knowledge of Walpole Island. His connection to this area is phenomenal, having lived most of his life at his family homestead, the Kroonhaus, which was built over many years by his father, an American ex-pat who came to Canada in the 1960s to escape the bad politics of the U.S. at the time. Jon Erik’s father worked as an archeologist in the area, excavating important burial sites from Pelee Island up to Walpole and providing critical insight into the extent of human occupation in the region before European colonization.

Pedestrian Bridge near Corunna: One of the biggest tensions in Lambton County is between its industrial history, particularly the legacy of Chemical Valley, and the restoration projects that are being established as the Valley downsizes and moves south to Corpus Christi, Texas. This pedestrian bridge, sponsored by Shell Canada, which has a plant nearby, bears the modest imprint of its corporate logos, a nod to an era of corporate responsibility and community engagement. It crosses over the mouth of Talfourd Creek where it flows into the St. Clair River. 
Nov 10
Pedestrian Bridge near Corunna: One of the biggest tensions in Lambton County is between its industrial history, particularly the legacy of Chemical Valley, and the restoration projects that are being established as the Valley downsizes and moves south to Corpus Christi, Texas. This pedestrian bridge, sponsored by Shell Canada, which has a plant nearby, bears the modest imprint of its corporate logos, a nod to an era of corporate responsibility and community engagement. It crosses over the mouth of Talfourd Creek where it flows into the St. Clair River. 

Leopard frog from “Suncor Energy Nature Foundation Way”.
Nov 05
Leopard frog from “Suncor Energy Nature Foundation Way”.

Lambton County Fairs: Thanks to the efforts of Devlin Starr, Danny Alexander, Darryn Doull and Cameron Starr, we were able to get some insight into people’s favorite places in Lambton County as well as their hopes and concerns for the future.   There were lots of great stories divulged from both lifetime residents and young people who’ve returned from away.  While many had no particular worries (other than continuing on as things are) others expressed concern for the future of both industry and agriculture and decent paying jobs for young people.  However, everyone expressed tremendous Sarnia/Lambton pride, no one more enthusiastically than this young woman from Petrolia, pictured here, who says the future is bright.
Oct 12
Lambton County Fairs: Thanks to the efforts of Devlin Starr, Danny Alexander, Darryn Doull and Cameron Starr, we were able to get some insight into people’s favorite places in Lambton County as well as their hopes and concerns for the future.   There were lots of great stories divulged from both lifetime residents and young people who’ve returned from away.  While many had no particular worries (other than continuing on as things are) others expressed concern for the future of both industry and agriculture and decent paying jobs for young people.  However, everyone expressed tremendous Sarnia/Lambton pride, no one more enthusiastically than this young woman from Petrolia, pictured here, who says the future is bright.

Point Edward golf course on the northern end of Christina Street: for a stark contrast, see “The last house on Christina Street” (August 24), which marks the boundary line with the Valley.  See also the quote from Pam Calvert’s documentary about Sarnia as “fairyland.” 
Oct 05
Point Edward golf course on the northern end of Christina Street: for a stark contrast, see “The last house on Christina Street” (August 24), which marks the boundary line with the Valley.  See also the quote from Pam Calvert’s documentary about Sarnia as “fairyland.” 
Responses to “Where do you see your community in the future ?” by new immigrants to Sarnia. Thanks to Milka Stupar who facilitated this workshop with her students.
Oct 05
“I’ve been living in Sarnia for one year. When I lived in Toronto, I didn’t hear of Sarnia. I came to Sarnia and I realled liked Sarnia’s quiet, harmoniousness, and beautiful places. But my friend told me Sarnia was a dirty city twenty five years ago because some small companies made pollution environment. The people of Sarnia said that everyone wanted to live in a beautiful place. So the government said that changed the weather and environment now. Today we can live in a beautiful place.
Crys - China”

Where do you see your community in the future ?.

 As a part of our ongoing research into alternative mappings of Sarnia-Lambton, we are interested in charting how people define a sense of place here; how do you identify with (or feel ambivalent about) your community and the ways in which it is being redefined in the 21st century.

Please feel free to submit your thoughts.  Email submissions can be sent directly to lambtonlines [at] gmail.com. 

Oct 05
Where do you see your community in the future ?.  As a part of our ongoing research into alternative mappings of Sarnia-Lambton, we are interested in charting how people define a sense of place here; how do you identify with (or feel ambivalent about) your community and the ways in which it is being redefined in the 21st century. Please feel free to submit your thoughts.  Email submissions can be sent directly to lambtonlines [at] gmail.com. 

Where have you NEVER been ? We’re looking for Lambton County residents to borrow a GPS and go to a place that you’ve never been to (or rarely) in Lambton County. We are soliciting adventurous souls to contribute to our GPS research in the second phase of “Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines”. 

This summer several people helped us out by exploring familiar places in Lambton County to help us get a sense of their favorite or familiar haunts; we’re now looking for the overlooked. Drop by Gallery Lambton to pick up a GPS and explore your own backyard.
Oct 05
Where have you NEVER been ? We’re looking for Lambton County residents to borrow a GPS and go to a place that you’ve never been to (or rarely) in Lambton County. We are soliciting adventurous souls to contribute to our GPS research in the second phase of “Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines”.  This summer several people helped us out by exploring familiar places in Lambton County to help us get a sense of their favorite or familiar haunts; we’re now looking for the overlooked. Drop by Gallery Lambton to pick up a GPS and explore your own backyard.

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Monday February 13th 2012 at 03:11pm.

Making Tracks: Secret Places (RAAW workshop) Place is a very difficult thing to map: places are intimately subjective and shift in our memories over time; for the culmination of the Making Tracks workshop, we experimented with photography and text to try to describe the significance of a particular place in downtown Sarnia. Workshop participants were asked to take a single photograph of their special place, describe its importance by writing down (anonymously) what it was that made that particular place significant, and to make a map to the location. We traded maps among people in the group and after lunch each of us set out with another person’s map and attempted to find the location from the range of clues set out on the hand-drawn map; upon locating the special location we took a photograph of the spot described by the map. Some maps were very detailed, others were cryptic, some had tricks to confuse the recipient of the map. At the end of the day we sat down as a group and tried to match the photographs (generally two each) with the textual descriptions, which had been anonymously transcribed. The resulting sets of images present at least two perspectives on the same place and are powerfully marked by the accompanying text that discloses a personal memory of a place. Some of these memories match the photographs, others are displaced. What are we to make of these images: what happened where? Only the some of the participants know, leaving the game of attribution as open-ended as our memories of place. This workshop was hosted by Gallery Lambton, and led by Andreas Rutkauskas and Lee Rodney. Participants included: Alden Ozburn, Allison Bergenhus, Alyshia Ingles, Damon O’Connor, Dana Parry, Franklin Estanol, Leith Bergenhus and Mays Ibrahim.
Making Tracks: Secret Places (RAAW workshop) Place is a very difficult thing to map: places are intimately subjective and shift in our memories over time; for the culmination of the Making Tracks workshop, we experimented with photography and text to try to describe the significance of a particular place in downtown Sarnia. Workshop participants were asked to take a single photograph of their special place, describe its importance by writing down (anonymously) what it was that made that particular place significant, and to make a map to the location. We traded maps among people in the group and after lunch each of us set out with another person’s map and attempted to find the location from the range of clues set out on the hand-drawn map; upon locating the special location we took a photograph of the spot described by the map. Some maps were very detailed, others were cryptic, some had tricks to confuse the recipient of the map. At the end of the day we sat down as a group and tried to match the photographs (generally two each) with the textual descriptions, which had been anonymously transcribed. The resulting sets of images present at least two perspectives on the same place and are powerfully marked by the accompanying text that discloses a personal memory of a place. Some of these memories match the photographs, others are displaced. What are we to make of these images: what happened where? Only the some of the participants know, leaving the game of attribution as open-ended as our memories of place. This workshop was hosted by Gallery Lambton, and led by Andreas Rutkauskas and Lee Rodney. Participants included: Alden Ozburn, Allison Bergenhus, Alyshia Ingles, Damon O’Connor, Dana Parry, Franklin Estanol, Leith Bergenhus and Mays Ibrahim.

Making Tracks: Secret Places (RAAW workshop)

Place is a very difficult thing to map: places are intimately subjective and shift in our memories over time; for the culmination of the Making Tracks workshop, we experimented with photography and text to try to describe the significance of a particular place in downtown Sarnia. Workshop participants were asked to take a single photograph of their special place, describe its importance by writing down (anonymously) what it was that made that particular place significant, and to make a map to the location. We traded maps among people in the group and after lunch each of us set out with another person’s map and attempted to find the location from the range of clues set out on the hand-drawn map; upon locating the special location we took a photograph of the spot described by the map.

Some maps were very detailed, others were cryptic, some had tricks to confuse the recipient of the map. At the end of the day we sat down as a group and tried to match the photographs (generally two each) with the textual descriptions, which had been anonymously transcribed.

The resulting sets of images present at least two perspectives on the same place and are powerfully marked by the accompanying text that discloses a personal memory of a place. Some of these memories match the photographs, others are displaced. What are we to make of these images: what happened where? Only the some of the participants know, leaving the game of attribution as open-ended as our memories of place.

This workshop was hosted by Gallery Lambton, and led by Andreas Rutkauskas and Lee Rodney. Participants included: Alden Ozburn, Allison Bergenhus, Alyshia Ingles, Damon O’Connor, Dana Parry, Franklin Estanol, Leith Bergenhus and Mays Ibrahim.

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Saturday January 14th 2012 at 02:10pm.

Tecumseh entombment on Walpole Island.
Tecumseh entombment on Walpole Island.

Tecumseh entombment on Walpole Island.

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Friday January 13th 2012 at 09:38am. Its tags are listed below.

Riding off into the Sarnia sunset last summer on Bike Tour #1.
Riding off into the Sarnia sunset last summer on Bike Tour #1.

Riding off into the Sarnia sunset last summer on Bike Tour #1.

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Thursday January 12th 2012 at 06:26pm. Its tags are listed below.

Sombra for life: This is the message on the embankment of the The Darcy McKeough Floodway and the largest flood diversion project in Ontario, photographed by Glenn Ogilvie who drew our attention to this fantastic site in Sombra township.  The floodway was constructed in the 1980s to prevent the town of Wallaceburg and nearby Walpole Island from flooding.  We visited this region in early December after heavy rainfall and I was reminded of how much water constantly changes the landscape on the river delta at the mouth of Lake St. Clair. More of this series can be seen on Glenn’s website: glennogilvie.com
Sombra for life: This is the message on the embankment of the The Darcy McKeough Floodway and the largest flood diversion project in Ontario, photographed by Glenn Ogilvie who drew our attention to this fantastic site in Sombra township.  The floodway was constructed in the 1980s to prevent the town of Wallaceburg and nearby Walpole Island from flooding.  We visited this region in early December after heavy rainfall and I was reminded of how much water constantly changes the landscape on the river delta at the mouth of Lake St. Clair. More of this series can be seen on Glenn’s website: glennogilvie.com

Sombra for life: This is the message on the embankment of the The Darcy McKeough Floodway and the largest flood diversion project in Ontario, photographed by Glenn Ogilvie who drew our attention to this fantastic site in Sombra township.  The floodway was constructed in the 1980s to prevent the town of Wallaceburg and nearby Walpole Island from flooding.  We visited this region in early December after heavy rainfall and I was reminded of how much water constantly changes the landscape on the river delta at the mouth of Lake St. Clair.

More of this series can be seen on Glenn’s website: glennogilvie.com

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Thursday January 12th 2012 at 12:12pm.

“Maybe we’re forgetting that we have a local population that needs to understand what we have here. You’ve got to get rid of the negatives. The media always tells the same story about Chemical Valley, the worst air etc. This is what people are bombarded with daily, instead of the good stuff. Its human nature to focus on the negative, but we need to stay focused on the positive. There’s so much here, from Grand bend down to Petrolia, all wonderful communities.
—Helen Cole, Brigden Fair”

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Monday December 5th 2011 at 11:31am. Its tags are listed below.

Where the waters divide: Jon Erik Kroon took us on a tour of Walpole Island and surrounding area last weekend, the water was high after a severe rain storm earlier on in the week and it was easy to see how the river delta has defined this region for millenia. Walpole First Nation is called Bkejwanong (where the rivers divide) by the Ojibwa, Potawatomi and Ottawa who have lived there for thousands of years.
Jon Erik first took us to the Highbanks cemetery on Walpole island, (the highest location around this river delta) located precisely where the river divides and the Snye goes inland toward present-day Wallaceberg, while the St. Clair veers southwest, emptying out at Lake St. Clair a few miles down. At Highbanks, Jon Erik pointed out the areas where his father had located the sites of ancient burial plots, bundle burials, an indigenous practice throughout the Americas where the body of the deceased is arranged in a fetal position and wrapped in cloth with “gifts” for the afterlife placed nearby.  Highbanks also has a ‘modern’ end with grave sites marked by tombstones, and a monument to a historical treaty made on St. Anne’s Island (now Walpole) by Alexander McKee, representative to King George III in 1796 ceding land to the Ojibwa people and affirming the “rights and independence of all the Indian Nations”, including the rights to be “free and unmolested in their trade and hunting grounds and to pass and repass freely undisturbed to trade with whom they please.” Perhaps this is why the location is also the site for yearly pow wows in June, when Walpole becomes a gathering place for indigenous peoples throughout North America (and as far away as Latin America) to trade medicines and plants from this region.
It is also thought that Chief Tecumseh’s burial site is here, marked by a cairn on the shore of the St. Clair River.

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Monday December 5th 2011 at 11:12am.

Jon Erik Kroon is an artist from the Wallaceberg area (just the other side of the Lambton County line) who lives virtually off the grid on the east bank of the Snye River, just the other side of Walpole Island.  He took us on a tour of his backyard, so to speak, which includes the trails around his house as well as an intimate knowledge of Walpole Island. His connection to this area is phenomenal, having lived most of his life at his family homestead, the Kroonhaus, which was built over many years by his father, an American ex-pat who came to Canada in the 1960s to escape the bad politics of the U.S. at the time. Jon Erik’s father worked as an archeologist in the area, excavating important burial sites from Pelee Island up to Walpole and providing critical insight into the extent of human occupation in the region before European colonization.
Jon Erik Kroon is an artist from the Wallaceberg area (just the other side of the Lambton County line) who lives virtually off the grid on the east bank of the Snye River, just the other side of Walpole Island.  He took us on a tour of his backyard, so to speak, which includes the trails around his house as well as an intimate knowledge of Walpole Island. His connection to this area is phenomenal, having lived most of his life at his family homestead, the Kroonhaus, which was built over many years by his father, an American ex-pat who came to Canada in the 1960s to escape the bad politics of the U.S. at the time. Jon Erik’s father worked as an archeologist in the area, excavating important burial sites from Pelee Island up to Walpole and providing critical insight into the extent of human occupation in the region before European colonization.

Jon Erik Kroon is an artist from the Wallaceberg area (just the other side of the Lambton County line) who lives virtually off the grid on the east bank of the Snye River, just the other side of Walpole Island.  He took us on a tour of his backyard, so to speak, which includes the trails around his house as well as an intimate knowledge of Walpole Island. His connection to this area is phenomenal, having lived most of his life at his family homestead, the Kroonhaus, which was built over many years by his father, an American ex-pat who came to Canada in the 1960s to escape the bad politics of the U.S. at the time. Jon Erik’s father worked as an archeologist in the area, excavating important burial sites from Pelee Island up to Walpole and providing critical insight into the extent of human occupation in the region before European colonization.

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Thursday November 10th 2011 at 03:29pm. Its tags are listed below.

Pedestrian Bridge near Corunna: One of the biggest tensions in Lambton County is between its industrial history, particularly the legacy of Chemical Valley, and the restoration projects that are being established as the Valley downsizes and moves south to Corpus Christi, Texas. This pedestrian bridge, sponsored by Shell Canada, which has a plant nearby, bears the modest imprint of its corporate logos, a nod to an era of corporate responsibility and community engagement. It crosses over the mouth of Talfourd Creek where it flows into the St. Clair River. 
Pedestrian Bridge near Corunna: One of the biggest tensions in Lambton County is between its industrial history, particularly the legacy of Chemical Valley, and the restoration projects that are being established as the Valley downsizes and moves south to Corpus Christi, Texas. This pedestrian bridge, sponsored by Shell Canada, which has a plant nearby, bears the modest imprint of its corporate logos, a nod to an era of corporate responsibility and community engagement. It crosses over the mouth of Talfourd Creek where it flows into the St. Clair River. 

Pedestrian Bridge near Corunna: One of the biggest tensions in Lambton County is between its industrial history, particularly the legacy of Chemical Valley, and the restoration projects that are being established as the Valley downsizes and moves south to Corpus Christi, Texas. This pedestrian bridge, sponsored by Shell Canada, which has a plant nearby, bears the modest imprint of its corporate logos, a nod to an era of corporate responsibility and community engagement. It crosses over the mouth of Talfourd Creek where it flows into the St. Clair River. 

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Saturday November 5th 2011 at 09:35pm. Its tags are listed below.

Leopard frog from “Suncor Energy Nature Foundation Way”.
Leopard frog from “Suncor Energy Nature Foundation Way”.

Leopard frog from “Suncor Energy Nature Foundation Way”.

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Wednesday October 12th 2011 at 10:28am.

Lambton County Fairs: Thanks to the efforts of Devlin Starr, Danny Alexander, Darryn Doull and Cameron Starr, we were able to get some insight into people’s favorite places in Lambton County as well as their hopes and concerns for the future.   There were lots of great stories divulged from both lifetime residents and young people who’ve returned from away.  While many had no particular worries (other than continuing on as things are) others expressed concern for the future of both industry and agriculture and decent paying jobs for young people.  However, everyone expressed tremendous Sarnia/Lambton pride, no one more enthusiastically than this young woman from Petrolia, pictured here, who says the future is bright.
Lambton County Fairs: Thanks to the efforts of Devlin Starr, Danny Alexander, Darryn Doull and Cameron Starr, we were able to get some insight into people’s favorite places in Lambton County as well as their hopes and concerns for the future.   There were lots of great stories divulged from both lifetime residents and young people who’ve returned from away.  While many had no particular worries (other than continuing on as things are) others expressed concern for the future of both industry and agriculture and decent paying jobs for young people.  However, everyone expressed tremendous Sarnia/Lambton pride, no one more enthusiastically than this young woman from Petrolia, pictured here, who says the future is bright.

Lambton County Fairs: Thanks to the efforts of Devlin Starr, Danny Alexander, Darryn Doull and Cameron Starr, we were able to get some insight into people’s favorite places in Lambton County as well as their hopes and concerns for the future.   There were lots of great stories divulged from both lifetime residents and young people who’ve returned from away.  While many had no particular worries (other than continuing on as things are) others expressed concern for the future of both industry and agriculture and decent paying jobs for young people.  However, everyone expressed tremendous Sarnia/Lambton pride, no one more enthusiastically than this young woman from Petrolia, pictured here, who says the future is bright.

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Wednesday October 5th 2011 at 09:21pm. Its tags are listed below.

Point Edward golf course on the northern end of Christina Street: for a stark contrast, see “The last house on Christina Street” (August 24), which marks the boundary line with the Valley.  See also the quote from Pam Calvert’s documentary about Sarnia as “fairyland.” 
Point Edward golf course on the northern end of Christina Street: for a stark contrast, see “The last house on Christina Street” (August 24), which marks the boundary line with the Valley.  See also the quote from Pam Calvert’s documentary about Sarnia as “fairyland.” 

Point Edward golf course on the northern end of Christina Street: for a stark contrast, see “The last house on Christina Street” (August 24), which marks the boundary line with the Valley.  See also the quote from Pam Calvert’s documentary about Sarnia as “fairyland.” 

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Wednesday October 5th 2011 at 08:06pm.

“I’ve been living in Sarnia for one year. When I lived in Toronto, I didn’t hear of Sarnia. I came to Sarnia and I realled liked Sarnia’s quiet, harmoniousness, and beautiful places. But my friend told me Sarnia was a dirty city twenty five years ago because some small companies made pollution environment. The people of Sarnia said that everyone wanted to live in a beautiful place. So the government said that changed the weather and environment now. Today we can live in a beautiful place.
Crys - China”
Responses to “Where do you see your community in the future ?” by new immigrants to Sarnia. Thanks to Milka Stupar who facilitated this workshop with her students.

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Wednesday October 5th 2011 at 01:17pm.

Where do you see your community in the future ?.  As a part of our ongoing research into alternative mappings of Sarnia-Lambton, we are interested in charting how people define a sense of place here; how do you identify with (or feel ambivalent about) your community and the ways in which it is being redefined in the 21st century. Please feel free to submit your thoughts.  Email submissions can be sent directly to lambtonlines [at] gmail.com. 
Where do you see your community in the future ?.  As a part of our ongoing research into alternative mappings of Sarnia-Lambton, we are interested in charting how people define a sense of place here; how do you identify with (or feel ambivalent about) your community and the ways in which it is being redefined in the 21st century. Please feel free to submit your thoughts.  Email submissions can be sent directly to lambtonlines [at] gmail.com. 

Where do you see your community in the future ?.

 As a part of our ongoing research into alternative mappings of Sarnia-Lambton, we are interested in charting how people define a sense of place here; how do you identify with (or feel ambivalent about) your community and the ways in which it is being redefined in the 21st century.

Please feel free to submit your thoughts.  Email submissions can be sent directly to lambtonlines [at] gmail.com. 

Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines

Posted on Wednesday October 5th 2011 at 01:16pm.

Where have you NEVER been ? We’re looking for Lambton County residents to borrow a GPS and go to a place that you’ve never been to (or rarely) in Lambton County. We are soliciting adventurous souls to contribute to our GPS research in the second phase of “Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines”.  This summer several people helped us out by exploring familiar places in Lambton County to help us get a sense of their favorite or familiar haunts; we’re now looking for the overlooked. Drop by Gallery Lambton to pick up a GPS and explore your own backyard.
Where have you NEVER been ? We’re looking for Lambton County residents to borrow a GPS and go to a place that you’ve never been to (or rarely) in Lambton County. We are soliciting adventurous souls to contribute to our GPS research in the second phase of “Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines”.  This summer several people helped us out by exploring familiar places in Lambton County to help us get a sense of their favorite or familiar haunts; we’re now looking for the overlooked. Drop by Gallery Lambton to pick up a GPS and explore your own backyard.

Where have you NEVER been ? We’re looking for Lambton County residents to borrow a GPS and go to a place that you’ve never been to (or rarely) in Lambton County. We are soliciting adventurous souls to contribute to our GPS research in the second phase of “Sensing Place: Lambton between the lines”. 

This summer several people helped us out by exploring familiar places in Lambton County to help us get a sense of their favorite or familiar haunts; we’re now looking for the overlooked. Drop by Gallery Lambton to pick up a GPS and explore your own backyard.

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