Cornwall County Cricket Club in St Austell. The first recorded mention of cricket in Cornwall is an advertisement in the Sherborne Mercury on 18 June 1781 for the sale of cattle at St Teath, near Camelford. The advertisement was dated 14 June 1781 and signed by Nathaniel Long and finished with a note, viz "The evening of the same day will be circketed for a very handsome silver-laced hat." According to Bowen (1970) a county organisation is known to have existed in 1813 and the first cricket club in Cornwall was known as the Cornish Cricket Club of Truro. The club moved to a
Cornwall, Ontario federally by MP Guy Lauzon (Conservative). John Sandfield Macdonald, the first Premier of Ontario, was from Cornwall and is buried in St. Andrews West at the Catholic Church cemetery. The City of Cornwall hosts festivals and special community events including Canada Day festivities, and Kinsmen Cornwall Lift Off, an annual hot air balloon and music festival. Cornwall is named after the County of Cornwall in the United Kingdom. Its flag also bears the insignia and colours of the flag of the Duchy of Cornwall. Lift Off was an annual music and hot air balloon festival that took place in July