Living in Sarnia
Sarnia is a thriving border city with a wide array of boutiques, restaurants and hotels on the lush shore of Lake Huron and the St. Clair River. With its beautiful parks, scenic trails and waterfront walkways, you can take a leisurely stroll on the waterfront, jog, swim, fish, attend a sporting event or take the family to the local animal farm.
Sarnia has it all! From affordable housing and land in a low-cost business environment to a superior infrastructure that includes first-rate transportation routes, utilities and telecommunications services, big-city amenities with a small-community friendliness, breath-taking sunsets and an outstanding quality of life. Chatelaine magazine named Sarnia one of Canada's 10 best cities to live in, because of our thriving industry, magnificent parks, beaches and marinas.
Sarnia-Lambton enjoys one of the mildest climates in all of Canada. Our winters are short, our summers are long, and our temperatures are among the warmest in the country all year long.
Sarnia-Lambton has been described as offering "an enviable quality of life with an average housing price of $140 000, one of the warmest climates in Canada, miles of beaches, first-class theatres and recreational complexes and more than 20 golf courses for its
population of 129 000." Sarnia-Lambton is a pleasing mix of urban and rural, green space and waterfront.
Drawing on the considerable natural resources in the region a variety of recreational opportunities are available to local residents. The waters of Lake Huron and the St. Clair River offer abundant recreational opportunities including swimming, boating, sailing and fishing. Golfing is very popular; the region has 20 public golf courses. Public, private and semi-private courses offer spectacular golfing on professionally-designed courses at affordable prices.
Sarnia-Lambton boasts an abundance of parks including Canatera Park, Wawanosh Wetlands and The Pinery Provincial Park. The Pinery has 1 000 campsites on more than 6 000 acres, with 10 km of legendary sandy beaches and spectacular windswept dunes (some more than 100 feet high).
The community has always been keenly sports-minded and produces its share of outstanding athletes. Organized hockey, baseball and soccer are an important part of life in Sarnia. Other team sports favoured in the area include curling, lacrosse and rugby.
Sarnia-Lambton has a long and rich tradition in the performing arts, boasts the International Symphony Orchestra, local artists with national recognition and museums throughout the community.