1813, winter. Glengarry House, east of Glen Walter. When this stone mansion was built in 1791, at the enormous cost…
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“EIN PROSIT,” Let’s Invade Cornwall!
The old adage that “fact is stranger than fiction,” was never truer, than when Imperial Germany planned to invade Canada…
Lest we Forget
S.D. & G Highlander, Regimental Sergeant-Major Eugene R. Leroux, proudly carries Canada’s World War II flag, the Red Ensign, to…
Was Stone’s Distillery Cornwall’s First Industry, 1787 – ca. 1797?
Special Contribution to the Seeker Eastern Ontario’s citizen-soldier settlers, as former members of the British Army where they were authorized…
CORNWALL’S COLD WAR RADIATION SHELTER.
Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, the ever present threat of nuclear war evoked fear that permeated every level of…
“A Bridge Between the Past and the Future” – Dedication of the St. Andrews Convent Monument, Sunday, August 31, 2025.
Monument (seen in the header photo) and Plaques to St. Andrews Convent, and teaching sisters, 1909 – 2024, located in…
Finan “the Buffalo,” McDonald
Glengarry County’s history is populated with larger than life figures. No story is more fantastic, but true than that of…
FAITHFUL UNTIL DEATH …the SD& G HIGHLANDERS and the CORNWALL ARMOURY
A reader asked me to provide a history of Cornwall’s towered and crenellated Scottish Baronial style Armoury, home of the…
CHESTERVILLE’S ANSWER TO AMERICAN TARIFFS, ca. 1900
The weaponization of import tariffs by the American Republic party, to pressure Canadians into joining the United States, is an…
Elmer’s Saturday Morning Theatre Parties at the Palace.
For a mere 20 cents per child, Cornwall’s parents were once able to trundle their children off to the pandemonium…