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Originally Posted by flar
Chatham-Kent has a University of Guelph campus in Ridgetown (Veterinary school and agricultural sciences). Chatham also has St. Clair College Thames Campus. I don't think there is any university in Lambton county (only Lambton College in Sarnia)
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Sarnia (pop 71.5K) has no university, but it does have Lambton College and a Western University "campus" :
http://sarnialambtonresearchpark.ca/
"Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park
For over a decade, the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park has served as a strong link between concept and commerce, and a key contributor to the movement of an idea or a discovery from the lab bench to the marketplace. The Research Park's Commercialization Centre is Canada's largest clean-tech incubator, focused on large-scale industrial biotechnology."
Brampton is for sure a much bigger city, but it sits in the GTA with several universities in close proximity. Sarnia's closest are an hour away in London or 1.5 hrs away in Windsor. This might not seem like much, but growing up in Sarnia it certainly felt like far away. Especially without good public transportation links in or out of the city. Trains used to be more frequent, but the Greyhound has long since left. The supplementary Robert Q bus is no great compromise. Sarnia also used to have a larger population, and has actually shrunk since peaking in the 90's, from 74K to 71.5K, and Lambton County shrunk from 127K to 123.5K. I feel like not having a university contributes to this fact, as everyone who wants a post-secondary education leaves, and most never come back. I am one.