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Sarnia city (1991 pop. 74,376), S Ont., Canada, on the St. Clair River, at the south end of Lake Huron and opposite Port Huron, Mich. The two cities are connected by a railroad tunnel, and there is a bridge between Port Huron and Point Edward, just N of Sarnia. The city is a port and handles a large volume of freight for transshipment from railroads to lake steamers. There are grain elevators, machinery plants, oil refineries, and chemical and synthetic-rubber industries.

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Sarnia, Ontario/Canada Settled in 1807 and named in 1835 after the Roman name for the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. It was given this name by Lieutenant General (later Field Marshal) Sir John Colborne (1778–1863), lieutenant‐governor of Upper Canada (1828–38), who had been lieutenant‐governor of Guernsey (1821–8).

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