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SARNIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 220 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SARNIA  , a

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town and
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port of entry, Ontario,
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Canada, capital of Lambton 'county, 55 M . N.E. of
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Detroit, on the
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left
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bank of the
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river St Clair . Pop . (1901) 8176 . It is on the
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Grand Trunk and Lake
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Erie & Detroit River
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railways, and is a port of call for steamers plying on the
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Great Lakes . It contains a large oil-refinery which handles the greater
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part of the product of the Ontario oil region . The Grand Trunk railway crosses the river at this point by the St Clair tunnel, 6025 ft. long or, including the approaches, 24 m., which connects the town with the
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American city of Port Huron (Michigan) .

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