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It is particularly fitting
that an Old Boys' Reunion should be held in the old Town of Cornwall. Such gatherings have become very popular
of late years, and much younger towns in Canada and the United States have invited former residents to revisit
their old homes and renew the associations and friendships of their youth.
One of the earliest-settled sections of Ontario, the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, in the final decade of the 18th Century, became the home of an enterprising and adventurous people, who soon began to interest themselves in the larger world, and now are found everywhere where work is to be done and money to be made. Pioneers themselves, their sons naturally led the way to settlement in other parts of Canada and the United States, and took a hand in every field of endeavour; they were fur-traders, explorers, lumbermen, canal and railway builders, and to-day, while they excel in these strenuous pursuits, they are equally at home in all walks of life, and figure in the front rank of the merchant princes, the great lawyers and doctors, and in fact in every vocation chosen by them. 
The men of the United Counties are lovers of their old home; while they may roam the world
over, they never forget the fertile fields and beautiful forests of their native shire, and above all the
magnificent St. Lawrence, greatest of the world's waterways, which is a part of their earliest
remembrance. Many of them return at frequent intervals, while others are exiles of years' standing,
but it is safe to say that never has there been such a gathering as that in Cornwall from August 11 to
15, 1906, to which they were all invited, and it has been deemed appropriate to issue this Souvenir,
which shall be at once a permanent record of the town and surroundings as they are to-day, and one
of the most valuable mementos that can be carried away to the four quarters of the globe.
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