A generic Edwardian postcard from South Mountain.
South Mountain received its name from being located in Mountain Township which was name after the Right Reverend Jacob Mountain (1750 – 1825) the first Protestant Bishop of Quebec. You can stop looking for the mountain now!
Dam at South Mountain.
in 1905 when this postcard was made S. Mountain had a population of 400. James Murdock was the baker; J.H. and J.N. Barkley, John Gilroy and J.A. Hunter were blacksmiths; E. Foster the butcher; Dr. George Stacey; the general stores were operated by M.J. Christie, J.W. Ellis and Martin Kavanagh; Mrs. K. Ellis ran the grocery; J.A. Storey operated the hotel; F. Phillips was the jeweler; Joseph Locke ran the planning mill, Abraham Ellis made shoes and D. Clelland acted as postmaster and grocer.
Fair grounds, 2005.
This is a sample of material in the archives of the Cornwall Community Museum relating to South Mountain.
Cornwall Community Museum 
My mother dorthy Boyd long deceased told me there was a high dam and a low low dam the lower was used to make slave stakes for barrels the higher one for grist mill
By: Bill shaver on December 16, 2016
at 6:46 am
The crumbling dam was still visible when I was growing up there. I left in 1954. My father Frank was a blacksmith in the same shop that his father had been a blacksmith. I’m guessing his grandfather William had been a blacksmith there as well.i don’t know where William came from.birthdate 1837.
By: Mary Holmes on November 26, 2022
at 9:23 pm