Lost Villages of the St. Lawrence
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Construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway required the flooding of 8000 ha along the Canadian shoreline between Iroquois and Cornwall. Some of these lands had been settled by loyalists in the 1780s. Between 1955 and 1957, 6,500 residents were relocated many of them to the new communities of Ingleside and Long Sault. Work crews moved buildings to new sites and re-routed highways and railway tracks. Iroquois and part of Morrisburg were rebuilt on higher ground. On "Inundation Day", July 1, 1958, the rising waters of Lake St. Lawrence slowly submerged the villages of Aultsville, Farran's Point, Woodlands, Dickinson's Landing, Wales, Moulinette, Mille Roches, and a farming community on Sheek's Island.
Transcribed from the marker, not summarised.
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The United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry
The Township of South Stormont
On the south side of Road 2 at the south end of Road 15
N 45 01.928 W 74 51.472
Recorded June 2005. Check current access before visiting.
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