Canadian Cottons – Employee Housing
Seaway News Ask a Curator – June 2024 Many people are aware of the “Stormont Cottages” on and near the southeast corner of York and First Street West. The townhouses
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A Local Educational Milestone
Museum Blog – May 2023 2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the first cohort entering the St. Lawrence College Diploma Nursing Program. For many decades, hospitals operated their own schools
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Labelle Motors
Museum Blog – Feb 2021 For quite some time people have been asking for photos of the car dealer/service station that once stood at the intersection of Montreal Road and
Bath Tub Derby Flashback
Museum Blog – Jan 2020 Locally, the Bath Tub Derby was born in 1968 when eight locals sat down to organize it, using a dog-eared photo of the World Championship
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Saunders Hydro Dam Construction
Museum Blog – January 2020 The photographs on this page were among forty four 4″x5″ black and white images donated to the museum by John MacKay Jr of Port Alberni,
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Local Heroes
Museum Blog – November 2019 In 2014 the Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Command launched the first in an ongoing series of Military Recognition Books. The inaugural edition details the lives
A Visit to the Cornwall Community Museum
Museum Blog – OCTOBER 2019 The United Counties Museum in the Wood House opened on September 15th 1956. The Howard Smith Paper Mill had previously taken over the property at
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Hats off to the Paper Mill
Museum blog – July 2019 The former Domtar Fine Papers mill in Cornwall issued a great many souvenir ball caps and visors throughout the years. Some were given as a
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Was that Vinyl made in Cornwall?
Museum Blog – July 2019 Have you ever wondered how to identify vinyl music records that were made at the former East Front Decca / Compo record factory here in
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Brunet Bros. Ltd
Museum Blog – March 2019 On March 22, 1962, Brunet Brothers opened their new retail store at 1525 Pitt Street. Pictured below is Mayor Nick Kaneb officiated that opening by