It’s fitting that the Mackenzie brothers’ store, the oldest business in Sarnia, is captured in this, the oldest known photographic image of the city. Taken circa 1855, it shows a commercial block on Front Street between Lochiel and Cromwell after a light snow.
Image courtesy Lambton County Archives, 9JA-N
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