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Transportation/Water/Ferries

• Article: Ferry Service Started in 1770s, by Mrs. Gerald (Plumb) McCarthy on the history of the ferry service between Prescott and Ogensburg, which began in the 1770s as a sailboat named the “River Girl”
• 1815, the Plumbs ran a ferry boat operated by a horse on a treadmill
• Gives accounts and history of the Prescott and Ogdensburg Ferry Co.
• Early Prescott Elevator
• Highlights of Prescott History 1783 – 1967, compiled by Miss Phyllis Stephenson
• Timeline history of Prescott from 1783 to 1966
• Ferryboat Enter Final Year of Run, Prescott News Notes
• Short article on the ferry service
• Early types of ferries were haphazard and were used more for conveying sheep than humans; vehicles for transferring livestock

Transportation/Water/Boat/Knapp Roller Boat

• A comprehensive file on the curious Knapp Roller Boat
• Includes an article from the Prescott Telegraph from 1897 with an interview with Mr. Knapp on his strange boat
• In the end, Knapp was forced to sell his boat for scrap to pay off damage it had cost after being de-moored in a Toronto harbour in a storm and crashing into other boats in the harbour

Transportation/Water/Bridge/Ogdensburg

• File on the construction of the international bridge from Prescott to Ogdensburg over the St. Lawrence

Book Shelves

Shields, Anne-Marie L. Lost Villages, Found Communities: a Pictorial History of the Lost Villages of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Cornwall: Astro Printing, 2004.

· Part One – We Were Here – This section describes the St. Lawrence before the Seaway was built. It describes the rapids, changes in elevation.

o Briefly describes the history behind the establishment of the counties in Eastern Ontario. The British Government believed that it was best to separate the various immigrant groups according to their religion (ie: the Catholic Scotts were placed between the French Catholics in the east, and the Protestants in the west in Glengarry, named after Glen Garry of Inverness, Scotland)

o Some of the basic architectural styles are influence by the loyalist’s personal ancestry. The Loyalist introduced the Georgian style home with symmetrical facades, chimneys at each end of a medium-pitched gable or hip roof, and rectangular windows. The Loyalist, a vernacular design, evolved as an adaption of the Georgian home. Describes other evolutions in architectural design.

o Canals on the St. Lawrence – the first were built between 1779 to 1783 under the direction of Governor Sir Frederick Haldimand. The first was a two-and-a-half-foot canal system. The second set of canals was built in 1845, which were 7 to 9 feet deep. The The canals continued to be widened and dredged until 1904 when the 14 foot canal became a reality.

o Describes the process that Ontario Hydro used to compensate for displaced homes.

o Much of the rest of the book deals with describing each of the homes lost and moved because of the Seaway project.

Way, Ronald. The Day of Crysler’s Farm: November 11, 1813. Morrisburg: The Ontario-St. Lawrence Development Commission, Date unknown – likely early 1970’s.

· Very comprehensive detailing of the events that led up the battle at Crysler’s farm, as well as the actual battle and the aftermath.

· The second half of the book is dedicated to the history of Upper Canada Village.

Senior, Elinor Kyte. From Royal Township to Industrial City, Cornwall 1784 to 1984. Belleville: Mika Publishing, 1983.

Pointe Maligne — Royal Township No. 2............... 13

Growing Pains.......................................................... 32

The McNiff Controversy........................................ 51

Strachan's Cornwall — A Centre of Learning......... 72

Cornwall — A Garrison Town................................. 98

Cornwall Politics and Canal Conflicts.................. 115

Loyalist Reformers and Tories Face Rebellion . 134

Cornwall at the Half Century Mark...................... 151

Cornwall's Institutions Develop............................ 182

Fenians, Confederation and Cornwall.................. 209

The Mill Town Emerges......................................... 224

Cornwall Copes with Expansion........................... 255
Victorian Cornwallites at Church and

at School................................................................ 292

In Sickness and in Health..................................... 316

Early Twentieth Century Cornwall......................... 345
Cornwall Organizes for Fellowship

and Service.................................................................. .......... 368

Industry, Depression and Unionization....................... .......... 387

Cornwall as War Clouds Darkened.............................. .......... 408

Modern Cornwall Faces Economic Doldrums ............ .......... 435

Twentieth Century Schools and Churches................... .......... 457

The New Cornwall............................................... 487
529 545

Map No. 1, 1792...................................................... 16

Pre-Industrial Cornwall, 1862 ............................... 282

Plan of the Town of Cornwall, 1879 .................... 284

Cornwall in 1906 .................................................. 286

Cornwall in 1950 .................................................. 487

Cornwall in 1983 .................................................. 568

This is a fairly comprehensive history of Cornwall.