Information about Cornwall

Travel Places to visit Cornwall

Corn wall

In this article you can find out some information about Canada Cornwall and Cornwall tourism. The Cornwall Canada is the first city of any size in Ontario along the St Lawrence Valley and has the Seaway International Bridge to the USA. Cornwall was here in the 1870s that Thomas Edison, creator if the light bulb, helped set up the first factory lit by electricity.

Despite this corner of Ontario having Scottish and Loyalist ancestry, there is a good-sized French population in Cornwell.
The Pitt St Mall, in the centre of town, is a pedestrian-only two-block section of stores and gardens. The RH Saunders Energy Information Centre has displays on the big, important hydroelectric facility here. Cornwall Ontario is open daily in July and August, on weekdays only in June. 

Tours of the power facilities at the dam are available. The inveraden Regency Cottage Museum represents Ontario’s finest example of Regency Cottage architecture. Built in 1816 by a retiring fur trader who had evidently done quite well, it’s on the corner of Hwy 2 and Boundary Rd and is open from April to November.

Just out of town, on Corn wall Island, there is the North American Travelling College Museum focusing on the Cree, Iroquois and Ojibway Indians with artefacts and a replica village. It’s closed weekends.

The bridge over to Massena, New York make Cornwalls another busy port of entry for US visitors.

In Maxville, to the north, Highland Games held at the beginning of August commemorate the region’s Scottish heritage. St Raphaels has some interesting church ruins dating from 1815.

West of Cornwells, the Long Sault Parkway connects a series of parks and beaches along the river. You can visit cornwall. However, enjoy the travel cornwall news.