Commercial

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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