The Horovitz House – 2nd Street West
Museum Blog – July 2025 Immediately east of Legion Memorial Park, at the corner of Second Street West and Bedford Street, stands a beautiful family home that many still fondly
Patent Medicines
Seaway News Ask a Curator – April 2025 Patent medicines were once marketed with patient testimonials that mimicked newspaper articles, at times claiming to be cures for a wide range
Is This Glenview Heights Subdivision?
Seaway News Ask a Curator – March 2025 Some popular search engines and mapping tools would have us believe that the east end residential area represented by the shaded area
Backyard Bakeries
Seaway News Ask a Curator – February 2025 Cornwall’s days of yore witnessed quite an eclectic interspersing of commercial and residential structures. Some time ago, the owner of the residential
Craig’s Tannery
Seaway News Ask a Curator – January 2025 Robert Craig, Sr. (1813-1896) operated a buy/sell hides shop and tannery in proximity to his home on the west side of Pitt
Riley’s Bakery
Seaway News Ask a Curator – December 2024 A popular downtown bakery sits on a property a mere 19’ by 110’. The store is compact, but its reputation is anything
Remembrance Day
Seaway News Ask a Curator – November 2024 Celebrating Freedoms through remembering This Remembrance Day article is centered on a former Cornwall military tribute which stood in a former city
Some Historic Cornwall Liveries
Seaway News Ask a Curator – October 2024 Good news! Recently most of Cornwall’s historic newspapers that were associated with the Standard-Freeholder were released on the newspapers.com subscription website. And
Cornwall Historic Dairy Industry
Seaway News Ask a Curator – September 2024 Ontario’s first commercial dairy launched in 1863 in Oxford County. In 1867, the first cheese factory in this section of the province
Labour and Labour Days of Yesteryear
Seaway News Ask a Curator – August 2024 Cornwall’s organized labour movement is a shadow of its former self. Long work weeks, low pay and sometimes dangerous working conditions were
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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