Seniors Situation Room – By Dawn Ford – A New Book on Cornwall Ontario

December 6, 2022 – In her book, The Friendly Town That Grew (A Reminiscence of Cornwall, Ontario), Eileen Merkley describes the Bywash as a ‘real people place’. She says that water ran down a cement slope to froth into small churning rapids and into a deep pool. She describes it as an inch or two of water flowing over the cement part which gave us just enough water to allow us to slide into the water.
The canal turned down Race Street and emptied into the St. Lawrence on a ceme