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While this logo is the officially approved logo of the Town, there are opportunities to adapt it for special occasions. For the celebration of Canada’s 150th Anniversary the […]
For the celebration of Canada’s 150th Anniversary the Town has adopted a new official logo. The old one has been given a stained glass look using colours similar […]
The William IV was built in Gananoque and launched in 1832, just 19 months before the Cobourg. It ran between Prescott and Toronto until 1845. Like the Cobourg […]
Captaining two vessels at a time on Lake Ontario, Capt Dan Rooney made double wages! The routes are set out on this map. Though our records don’t set out the […]
This plan includes: a hotel, a project which was still being discussed 17 years later; the possibility of a major marina expansion into the west basin, a proposal which was […]
There had been American connections to the Cobourg & Peterborough Railway from the earliest days. It was an American engineer who designed the Rice Lake bridge and an […]
In its earliest days Cobourg was viewed as a convenient half-way stop between York (Toronto) and Kingston. By boat this was a lengthy and sometime dangerous trip. As […]
The site of present day Charlotte, just north of Rochester, New York, was first settled in 1792, just six years before the first settler arrived in Cobourg. Charlotte […]
This plan from 1835 shows the proposal for an east pier. A continuous line of rock-filled wooden cribs, such as those used later in the Rice Lake Bridge, […]