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Category: The 1950s

Coal Piles at Cobourg Harbour – c. 1955

Coal Piles at Cobourg Harbour – c. 1955

This is the scene some 120 years after Cobourg’s harbour was first created.  Lumber and iron ore had been its first major exports.  More recently imports came to […]
Cobourg Harbour in the 1950s

Cobourg Harbour in the 1950s

Tankers and other freighters carrying oil, coal and supplies for the Military Supply Depot were frequent visitors at Cobourg’s Harbour in the 1950s and 1960s.  Older residents still […]