Central Park–looking north past the water fountain, towards First Street.

—Lily Worrall Collection

Water fountain at Central Park with the bandshell behind. The plaque says “Erected to the memory of Jennie McArthur by the W.C.T.U. (Women’s Christian Temperance Union) and Kings Daughters of Cornwall A.D. 1900.” The fountain is another Cornwall artefact which has disappeared without trace.

—Lily Worrall Collection

     The Central Park Pool was the only public pool in Cornwall for decades. It was six feet at the deep end. Swimmers would line up to pay a fee (25¢) to get in. If a swimmer wanted to check their clothes and shoes, a lifeguard would issue a numbered metal tag to fasten to one’s bathing suit with a safety pin. The number matched the shopping bag on a hook where the swimmer’s belongings were stored.

     Each swimmer had to step into a sanitizing foot bath before entering the pool because there was no filtration system on the pool. Once a week, the water was drained, the cement walls and floor were scrubbed with disinfectant and a large “key” was turned to let fresh water in. The fresh water was river-cold.

—Lily Worrall Collection

In later years the Kiwanis Club helped finance the pool, thereby giving it the name, “Kiwanis Pool.”

Memory Shared: The pool was in operation in 1971. I was a lifeguard then. I remember the dedication ceremony when they changed the name to Horovitz Park. The park benches had cement ends with wooden slats. (There is an example by the tree in this postcard.) —by Jeff Moore

—Lily Worrall Collection

The Lacrosse Grounds (later named the Athletic Grounds) on Marlborough Street between Third and Fourth Streets. Looking south the building on the right is the “back” of the General Hospital. On the left is the steeple of Nativity Church on Montreal Road. Notice the large crowd of spectators spread out along the white fence.

—Clive Marin Collection

Home of the John McMartin Memorial Branch No 297, Royal Canadian Legion.

“The Branch that serves the community.” 

—Clive Marin Collection

Postcard of the Legion, Branch 297 during its Golden Anniversary caelebrations in 1976.

—Clive Marin Collection

The armories, designed by Charles D. Sutherland in 1938 - home of the SD&G Highlanders—shown in empty fields.

The area in front of the armories is now the Joe St. Denis Athletic Grounds.

 —Lily Worrall Collection

Cornwall, a community of 14,000 contributed over 4,000 men and women to the war effort -

one of the highest per capita rates in Canada.

The landscaping at the armories looks well established but notice the Union Jack (pre-1967) on the flag pole and today’s driveway and parking lot to the left (West side of the building) have not yet been established.

 —Lily Worrall Collection

—Clive Marin Collection

Memorial Park with Cornwall’s Cenotaph at Second & Bedford Streets.

This early photo shows farmer’s barns and fields behind the monument.

Canada did not have its own flag until 1967. It flew the British Union Jack.

—Lily Worrall Collection

Glow from the illuminated Centennial Fountain, erected by the Cornwall Canadian Legion, Branch 297, reflects against the cenotaph which pays tribute to the men who sacrificed their lives in World War I and World War II.

—Clive Marin Collection

—Lily Worrall Collection

—Clive Marin Collection