Drowned Lands
As you head South towards the S. Lawrence River on County Road 23, you get an amazing, long-range view over prosperous farmlands.
Early Scottish immigrants chose the well-drained highlands or till plains to settle and establish farms, some in operation for more than 200 years.
The southern lands, known as the Bain's Fields or Drowned Lands due to the drainage problems and low lying swampland, did not come under cultivation until much later when Dutch immigrants settled here and introduced drainage techniques that created some of the best farmland in Glengarry.
