Heritage & Culture.
The Lost Villages Museum at Ault Park in Long Sault is the institutional anchor for the 1958 St. Lawrence Seaway relocation story.
When the river was raised to create Lake St. Lawrence, ten communities — Aultsville, Farran's Point, Dickinson's Landing, Wales, Moulinette, Mille Roches, Maple Grove, Santa Cruz, Woodlands, and Sheik's Island — were relocated or flooded.
The museum at Ault Park preserves and interprets that story on the same shoreline where it happened, and the Long Sault Parkway islands themselves are the direct artifact of the inundation.
The brief.
The Lost Villages Museum operates on a posted seasonal schedule (typically May through September) at Ault Park in Long Sault. The site holds relocated heritage buildings and the documentary record of the Seaway construction and the community relocations that came with it.
Pair the museum with a drive of the Long Sault Parkway — the parkway threads the islands left after the river was raised, so the relocation history sits both indoors at the museum and on the water itself. Some of the communities that originated in present-day South Dundas had their physical buildings relocated to Upper Canada Village (across the township boundary), so the broader Lost Villages story spans South Stormont's museum and South Dundas's living-history village; South Stormont's specific anchor is the museum at Ault Park and the parkway shoreline.
2. places.
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Lost Villages Museum (Ault Park, Long Sault)
Interpretive museum on the St. Lawrence shoreline at Ault Park; relocated heritage buildings and the documentary record of the 1958 Seaway construction and community relocations.
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Long Sault Parkway shoreline
11-island parkway across Lake St. Lawrence — direct artifact of the inundation and the most visible evidence of the Lost Villages story.
Today's read.
Cold but firm — winter-ready conditions · light winds · clean air.