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  History of Cornwall, Ontario, Canada

Journey back in time to Cornwall, Ontario, Canada

Visit Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• Cornwall History
  Cornwall, city, seat (1792) of the united counties of Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry, southeastern Ontario, Canada. The city lies on the north bank of the St. Lawrence River at the eastern terminus of the Cornwall Canal. Founded as New Johnstown by loyalists in 1784, it was renamed in 1797 for the ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1888 - Two hundred feet of canal bank gave way this morning opposite Moulinette.
  CORNWALL, Oct. 12 - The water for six or seven miles on each side rushed out in torrents. The break is very serious and it will take three weeks to repair it, thus practically closing navigation inland for that time. The continued wet weather is ascribed as the cause. It is also stated that an old...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Post Office, Cornwall, Ont.
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•  1910 - TEN PERISH IN HOTEL FIRE. $250,000 Property Loss In Cornwall, Ont., Thought Due to Careless Smoker.
  CORNWALL, Ontario, April 29. - Ten lives and a property loss of $250,000 was the toll paid in a fire which destroyed the Rossmore Hotel and damaged several adjoining buildings here early to-day.
  
  The dead are C. J. Gray, manager of the Ives Modern Bed Company, his wife, and two children; Benjamin ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  The Cornwallis - Cornwall, Ont., Canada
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  Old Fort, Cornwall, Ont.
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  Public Library, Cornwall, Ont.
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  Going through the Canal, near Cornwall
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  The Armouries, Cornwall, Ontario
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  Couraulds (Canada) Limited, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
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  The Public School, Cornwall, Ont., Canada
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  St Lawrence Sanitarium, Cornwall, Ont., No. 6
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  Stormont Mill
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  Trinity Church, Cornwall, Ont., Canada
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•  1933 - Million Dollar Damage Caused By Fire Which Swept Cornwall
  One-Sixth of Entire Business Section of Ontario Town is Today a Mass of Ruins - Flames which Originated in Rubbish Pile Destroyed Thirty-One Business Places, Eight Homes and at Least Fifteen Apartments.
  
  Cornwall, Ont. - "Cornwall will come back again" exclaimed Mayor Aaron Harovitz as he stood...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  International Bridge, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
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  Second Street looking West, Cornwall, Ontario
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