Lost Villages Museum — Attraction in South Stormont

Back in 1958, Canada and USA had to improve the way ships travelled up the St. Lawrence River due to the many rapids. The city of Cornwall built a power generation plant/dam which flooded the St. Lawrence River basin and many hamlets and villages were flooded. Why did we not learn this in school? The Lost Villages Museum has a few of the original buildings that were saved and much memorabilia to see and learn from. There's a house, library, school, driving shed, church and train station. There's also a store that sells books, post cards, CDs about this time and ice cream and drinks. This is all free to boot. Thurs is a place you need to discover yourself. The Long Sault Parkway is also close at hand and is worth the drive. There's camping, swimming and fishing as well and the causeway linking the islands is only 11 kms long. Get out of the house and see what there...

Please take a minute to look over all these interesting photos from our history along the St. Lawrence Seaway. So much history here. The Lost Villages Museum is located in Ault Park on Fran Laflamme Drive, 3km east of Long Sault, Ontario. The museum site consists of ten heritage buildings, moved and restored to Ault Park from The Lost Villages and surrounding townships by the members of The Lost Villages Historical Society. Both the interiors and exteriors of the buildings have been restored, and they have been assembled in a village-like setting at Ault Park. The buildings commemorate the inundation of lands to the south of the museum complex on...

What a neat spot! The buildings themselves are fantastic and very interesting to visit and go through, especially the schoolhouse and the old house. Two of the buildings are locked and require the site worker to come in with you as their is lots of old stuff in them. The only reason I am giving it 3 stars is because the girl who was working there wasn't great. She looked like she hated working there. She wasn't very friendly or talkative at all. You would think that working here you would know a bit about the history of the buildings and you'd be more friendly. All in all, a neat place to visit but the employee was very...