Cornwall ON Ontario Canada
Frequently Asked Questions
Downtown, at the marina beside Lamoureux Park, a large green space along the St. Lawrence shore. The town centre starts across the street.
Entirely. Lamoureux Park, the shops, the restaurants, the historic jail and the community museum are all walkable from the marina. Rental bikes extend the range along the shore.
The Waterfront Trail along the river, the historic county jail and the community museum fill the half day without rushing. The Lost Villages Museum at Long Sault means about ten kilometres more by road.
Ten riverside villages deliberately flooded in 1958 for the Seaway, their residents relocated and their houses moved or submerged. A museum at Long Sault is devoted to them, and in calm water divers still explore the sunken foundations.
Yes, from the cellar to the gallows. In service from 1833 to 2002, it keeps its original cells and exercise yard, and inmates' accounts make for a striking look at two centuries of Canadian justice.
Yes, widely. The city is deeply bilingual, the legacy of generations of Franco-Ontarian families: English and French often answer each other in the same conversation.
The neighbouring Mohawk territory, established on both sides of the Canada-US border. The community shares its crafts and traditions at events and in galleries across the region.
The St. Lawrence Seaway, opened in 1959, let ocean ships reach the Great Lakes and transformed the region. The Moses-Saunders hydroelectric dam, thrown between the Canadian shore and New York State, dates from the same era.
In 1784, by Loyalists. It is one of Ontario's oldest communities, and the community museum traces that history through to the cotton mill workers who long underpinned the town's prosperity.
The meeting of cultures shows on the plate: poutine sits comfortably beside traditional fry bread, from roadside canteens to the more polished tables downtown.
