Stornoway
More than a third of the Frontenac National Park crosses into the Town of Stornoway. At the Lambton-St. Francis-Megantic crossroads, surveyors divided the village (then named Bruceville) into cadastral lots. In 1849, a first general store opened its doors. Colin Noble, a merchant, potash manufacturer, justice of the peace, school commissioner and postmaster, took it over in 1852 and became the township’s most visible person. He ratified the town’s new name to remind the Gaelic land-clearers of their origins on the Isle of Lewis. Four cemeteries provide solid links to the past as the last resting places of the Scottish colonists – as well as a monument that faces the church recalling the history of the founding families. The Catholic church, dating back to 1920, shelters a superb statue of Saint-Alphonse sculpted by Louis Jobin. On Route 161, along the banks of the Legendre River, an ancient flour mill recalls the arrival of the French Canadians, an era celebrated by writer Jean O’Neil in his Stornoway, L’Âge du Bois – which is in turn dedicated to Thérèse Legendre, a local inspiration.
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Town of Stornoway
507, route 108, C.P. 98, G0Y 1N0
819 652-2800
Fax: 819 652-2105
Internet:
www.munstornoway.qc.caPopulation: 604
