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 […]
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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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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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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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Cornwall Icons – City Smoke Shop & Restaurant
Museum Blog – September 2019 From the late 1950s through to 1980, Ed Langin’s City Smoke Shop was a downtown Cornwall fixture. His son Ted shared the black and white
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The Mary I. Robertson
Museum Blog – May 2016 The tug “Mary I. Robertson” pulling the “South Wind” through the Cornwall Canal. Robertson named the vessel after his wife Mary Isabella McCourt Robertson. The
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Ponderosa, Red Barn, Moviola and Frank Vetere’s
Museum Blog – July 2017 Until the late 1960’s, the west side of Brookdale Avenue between the Mall and Town Line Bowling had not been developed for retail purposes, as
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1948 Train Derailment – Changes to Pitt Street
Museum Blog – June 2017 On July 6, 1948, CPR locomotive #857 derailed in front of Albert Lalonde’s house at 524 Pitt Street. These photos from our Marcel Quenneville collection
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517 Pitt Street – Blacksmith Shop
Museum Blog – May 2017 The shop was located on Pitt Street at the Fly Creek Bridge, having been erected ca. 1882 by Isaac Boileau/Waters on land that he purchased
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