Lost Villages

In all, approximately 6,500 people were displaced by the project,[2] 530 buildings moved, and countless other homes, schools, and businesses demolished.

A museum in Ault Park near Long Sault is devoted to the Lost Villages, including several historic buildings salvaged from the communities.

Lock 21 of the former Cornwall Canal (since replaced by the St. Lawrence Seaway) is a popular scuba diving site, a few feet from the shore along the Parkway.

[3] Mille Roches Power House (1901) at Cornwall was demolished prior to inundation in 1955 with the new powerdam and seaway nearing completion.

[5] Some high points of land in the flooded area remained above water as islands, and are connected by the Long Sault Parkway.

Lost Villages Museum near Long Sault
Entrance to Pioneer Memorial that contains headstones from cemeteries of the Lost Villages
Mounted tombstones from St. John's Cemetery, Pioneer Memorial
Animation showing the change to the St. Lawrence River as a result of the Moses-Saunders Power Dam