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262 Vidal Street North
Year Built: 1866 (or before)
Original Owner: John Turnball
Present Owner: Anglican Church of Canada
This small 2-storey home has a rectangular long façade with a wing at the rear and has been irregularly attached to St. George’s Anglican Church. It is a typical French Canadian house with red brick and yellow brick details. At either end of the building are gabled parapets which originally acted as firewalls and are very typical of French Canadian architecture.
The wall design and detail is quite elaborate on this house. Yellow recessed brick crosses are set within the red brick façade above each of the two front windows. A raised yellow brick trim around the crosses accents these wall details. As well, yellow bricks are used for quoining on each of the corners of the building. Above the quoining just below the roofline, red brickwork is corbelled into the gabled parapet.
In the centre of the façade is a gable with a gabled parapet end. The gabled parapet flashings are made of metal and are supported by a decorated red brick frieze. The typical window in this home has a segmental structural opening. The outside trim is quite unique. Raised and recessed yellow brick voussoirs are shaped into a label and raised yellow brick runs down each side of the window opening to form decorative quoins. Each window is then finished off with a limestone plain lug sill.
In the centre of the façade is one large French bay window with a metal roof and small pane windows. Centered in the front gable, above the bay window, are two semi-circular windows.
The major entranceway to the building is not on the façade of the building but is located on the right side of the wing on the rear.
GTW 6425 leads CN L514 down the Sarnia Spur with eight empties for the elevators in Blenheim, Ontario.
Bluewater Bridge, in Sarnia Ontario at night.
Looking towards Port Huron, Michigan.
Explore highest position #11 January 2, 2016.
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Looking across the St. Clair River at Sarnia, Ontario, accessible via the Blue Water Bridge seen down river.
Bluewater Bridge, in Sarnia Ontario at night.
Looking towards Port Huron, Michigan.
Explore highest position #3, December 1, 2016.
Sixty-year-old CN 1439 works a cut of pressure cars near Sarnia Yard, where a tank farm and smokestacks provide an appropriate backdrop. The uniquely Canadian GMD-1 model experienced a bit of a revival starting in late 2018. This 1959-built unit had the distinction of being one of the last GMD-1s in service with Canadian National. All were retired in the spring of 2021.
CN 1439 GMD-1
Imperial Oil refinery, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
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CSX GP38-2 #2561 leads the daily transfer towards CN's Sarnia to interchange a good number of cars pulled from the area's petrochemical plants.
Her first trip south in 2008 finds the beautiful steamer Edward L. Ryerson in fresh paint just entering the ice field at buoys 1 & 2 above Sarnia, Ontario the morning of March 28, 2008 as the Captain Henry Jackman heads out into Lake Huron.
251 Vidal Street North
Year Built: 1874
Original Owner: Michael Fleming
Present Owner: Allance Ltd.
Architects: Unknown
DESCRIPTION
This three-bay, 2 ½ storey yellow brick building has a bellcast mansard roof representative of the Second Empire style of architecture. On the façade, two 3-storey bay windows flank
the front doorway on either side and each of the bay windows breaks the mansard roofline with a gable. The south gable has a projected eaves style roof, while the north gable has a semi-circular window on the third floor.
The eaves of the mansard roof have moulded fascia, soffit and brackets. The centre front bay has a decorated frieze as well. A series of carved arches are located between two decorated supports which form an elaborate roof trim just above the second storey bay window.
On the second floor of the two 3-storey bay windows are two semi-circular windows set within a recessed brick panel wall. The panel extends into the gable ends with two small arches flanking the semi-circular window in the gable end. The second floor twin windows have a double brick voussoir trim around each window with a carved oak leaf keystone in the centre and carved oak leaf supports on a decorated limestone lug sill.
The first floor bay windows have a rectangular structural opening. A moulded limestone lintel and a decorated limestone lug sill trims the top and bottom of each window. The major doorway is located in the centre of the façade within a slightly projecting centre bay. A closed railing staircase with decorated Doric capital columns and a shaped hood leads up to the doorway. The large double doors have
within them, shaped panels with decorative carvings and above the door is a flat transom fanlight. The property is enclosed with an iron gate and fence set atop a low stone wall.
ARCHITECTURAL MERIT
This High Victorian home is a unique blend of French Second Empire style while the decorative round headed windows are Italianate. This is a unique and rare example of such a combination in Sarnia. The quality of detailing and workmanship throughout the structure is excellent. The wrought iron fence is one of the last of its type in Sarnia.
HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
This house was owned by a Sarnia businessman by the name of Michael Fleming. He came to Sarnia in 1859 as the agent of the Montreal Telegraph Company. While he resided in Sarnia he established a private bank and as a banker and exchange
broker, he became manager of the Lambton Loan Co. He became the Mayor of Sarnia for four terms. Michael Fleming died at the age of 51 in 1891.
In the fall of 1919, the Christian Science Society became the First Church of Christ Scientist Sarnia and in August, 1919 the Fleming property was purchased and meetings were held there. During the summer of 1920 this building was remodeled and the two upper storeys were made into an auditorium where services were held. Originally there was a ballroom on the third floor.
A mix of CN MLW's and GM engines make up the power sitting at the Sarnia ON. engine terminal. September 1989.
VIA FPA4 6763 has just arrived at Sarnia from Toronto in October 1980. The Engineer asked me up into the cab and let me ride the wye move. My first of many rides on FPA's on the wye move at Sarnia.
The Right Honourable Paul J. Martin moored at the Sarnia dock. The ship is named after a former Canadian Prime Minister.