Editing Sarnia (section)

===Name===
The word "Sarnia" is [[Latin]] for [[Guernsey]], a  British [[Channel Islands|Channel Island]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Mare Clausum |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_km0PUYnIg5cC |author=John Selden |year=1635 |page=333|publisher=excudebat Will. Stanesbeius }}</ref> In 1829 [[John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton|Sir John Colborne]], a former governor of Guernsey, was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada.<ref name="biographi2000">{{cite web |url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4359 |title=Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, Sir John Colborne |publisher=University of Toronto |year=2000 |access-date=12 April 2012}}</ref> In this capacity, he visited two small settlements in 1835 that had been laid out on the shores of Lake Huron. One of these, named "The Rapids", consisted then of 44 taxpayers, nine frame houses, four log houses, two brick dwellings, two taverns and three stores.<ref name="sarnia2005">{{cite web |url=http://www.city.sarnia.on.ca/visit.asp?sectionid=117 |title=City of Sarnia-About Our Name |publisher=City of Sarnia |date=21 December 2005 |access-date=12 April 2012 |archive-date=28 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928040216/http://www.city.sarnia.on.ca/visit.asp?sectionid=117 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=History-Geography of Sarnia|url=http://virtualwalk.ca/index.php/Sarnia-Ontario/History-Geography.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721180807/http://virtualwalk.ca/index.php/Sarnia-Ontario/History-Geography.html|archive-date=21 July 2013|access-date=5 April 2012|publisher=VirtualWalk.ca}}</ref> The villagers wanted to change its name but were unable to agree on an alternative. The English settlers favoured the name "Buenos Aires", and the ethnic Scottish favoured "New Glasgow".<ref name="Colborne">{{cite web |url=http://www.lambtonshield.com/voices-from-lambtons-past-part-3-of-old-home-week/ |title=Voices from Lambton's Past: Part 3 of 'Old Home Week' |date=2 September 2011 |access-date=25 June 2013 |archive-date=29 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130929125104/http://www.lambtonshield.com/voices-from-lambtons-past-part-3-of-old-home-week/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Sir John Colborne suggested Port Sarnia. On 4 January 1836, the name was formally adopted by a vote of 26 to 16, and Colborne also named the nearby village Moore after British military hero Sir John Moore.<ref name="Colborne"/><ref name="sarnia">{{cite web |url=http://thesarniajournal.ca/chronicles-sarnia-lion-lodge-landscaper/ |title=Chronicles of Sarnia: the lion, the lodge and the landscaper |work=The Sarnia Journal |date=15 March 2014 |access-date=12 May 2018 }}</ref> Sarnia adopted the nickname "The Imperial City" on 7 May 1914 because of the visit of Canada's [[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]], [[Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn|the Duke of Connaught]], and his daughter [[Princess Patricia of Connaught|Princess Patricia]].<ref name="Sarnia City">{{cite web |url=http://www.city.sarnia.on.ca/visit.asp?sectionid=117 |title=City of Sarnia |publisher=City of Sarnia |date=21 December 2005 |access-date=23 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830052021/http://www.city.sarnia.on.ca/visit.asp?sectionid=117 |archive-date=30 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://thesarniajournal.ca/whats-in-a-nickname-how-sarnia-became-the-imperial-city/|title=What's in a nickname? How Sarnia became the Imperial City|work=The Sarnia Journal|date=28 May 2017|first=Phil|last=Egan|access-date=1 January 2022}}</ref>