26 Facts About Cornwall Ontario

Cornwall Ontario is named after the English Duchy of Cornwall Ontario; the city's coat of arms is based on that of the duchy with its colours reversed and the addition of a "royal tressure", a Scottish symbol of royalty.

Cornwall Ontario is centrally located between the capital city of Ottawa and Montreal, Canada's second-most populous city.

In 1787 this settlement became the first in present-day Cornwall Ontario to be visited by a member of the royal family, Prince William Henry .

The Canadian Pacific Railway created a succession of subsidiaries and plans for a Cornwall line starting in the 1880s, which culminated in the Glengarry and Stormont Railway in 1915 to connect to CP's Ontario and Quebec Railway mainline to the northeast for an alternative route to Montreal.

The network of villages and towns surrounding Cornwall Ontario helped make the city a local entrepot for business, commerce, media and services.

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Cornwall Ontario was once home to a thriving cotton processing industry.

The mayor of Cornwall Ontario is Glen Grant, appointed by council shortly after the previous mayor Bernadette Clement was appointed to the Senate of Canada in June 2021.

John Sandfield Macdonald, the first Premier of Ontario, was from Cornwall and is buried in St Andrews West at the Catholic Church cemetery.

Cornwall Ontario is named after the County of Cornwall Ontario in the United Kingdom.

Cornwall Ontario Ribfest is an annual festival held by the Optimist Club of Cornwall Ontario.

The newest high school in Cornwall Ontario is Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School for grades 7 to 12, opened in response to overpopulation at St Joseph's.

Cornwall Ontario has two French high schools: l'Ecole secondaire publique l'Heritage, and l'Ecole secondaire catholique La Citadelle.

Cornwall Ontario is home to the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace Control Operations .

Cornwall Ontario does not enjoy a positive environmental reputation as a result of decades of industrial pollution in the city, the legacy of which is a riverfront contaminated by mercury, zinc, lead, and copper, soil contaminated by coal tar and byproducts, and most evidently, "Big Ben", an 18-hectare, 80-metre-tall dumpsite within the city filled with wood bark, paper mill sludge, demolition waste and asbestos.

Years, the industrial emissions in the Cornwall Ontario area fuelled public health concerns about respiratory disease and cancer.

Similar to most of Southern Ontario, Cornwall has a humid continental climate with cold, snowy winters and warm, humid summers.

Canadian Pacific created a succession of subsidiaries and plans for a Cornwall line starting in the 1880s, culminating in the Glengarry and Stormont Railway in 1915, which connected to CP's Ontario and Quebec Railway mainline to the northeast, creating an alternative route to Montreal.

Currently, Cornwall Ontario only has one significant rail line, the CN Kingston Subdivision, which functions as the CN mainline between Toronto and Montreal.

Around the turn of the 20th century, Cornwall Ontario had a burgeoning electric street railway system, which transported freight and passengers throughout the city.

City of Cornwall Ontario is on the St Lawrence Seaway just east of the Eisenhower and Snell Locks.

Cornwall Ontario has two indoor arenas, the Cornwall Ontario Civic Complex and the Benson Centre with three ice surfaces.

Cornwall Ontario Colts are the current Junior A team playing in the Central Canada Hockey League.

In 2008, Cornwall Ontario hosted the Royal Bank Cup, the National Championship for Junior A hockey teams.

The Cornwall Ontario Colts finished third in the series, winning 2 of 5 games.

The Cornwall Ontario Colts hosted the Fred Page Cup in 2015 for the Eastern Canadian Championship.

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Cornwall Ontario has three soccer areas, the Kinsmen Junior Soccer Field at Second Street West and Haulage Road; The Benson Centre ; and Optimist Park on Sunnyside Street and St Michel Drive.