Landscape Archives | Cobourg Harbour Is Our Town

Piano Harbour

In the summer of 2014, the Town of Cobourg installed several painted pianos in the streets for budding musicians to play. For example, the artist, Katriona Dean, painted […]

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 […]

Replica Iron Ore Car

This replica ore car includes parts from one built at James Crossen’s foundry in Cobourg in 1867 for the Cobourg, Peterborough & Marmora Railway & Mining C0. The […]

Spirit of Canada

Inspired by successfully competing in an “Around Alone” Single-handed Yacht Race in 2002-2003, (one of ten international competitors and the only Canadian to finish the event), Derek Hatfield […]

Victoria Hall beyond Condominiums

Not so many years ago, here beside the water, trains rumbled by. But now, within spitting distance of the yachts at the Marina, this new condominium development has […]

Steamer William IV

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 […]

Steamer Cobourg

Eric Heyl’s multi-volume “Early American Steamers” includes sketches and “life histories” of a vast number of vessels, including Canadian ones. To make for easy comparisons of size, vessels […]

Steamer Cobourg Enters Toronto Harbour

A watercolour by J.R.C. Smyth of this subject entitled “Entrance to Toronto, showing the steamer Cobourg passing the blockhouse at Gibralter Point” is described in Sotheby & Co. […]

The Gorilla Racing on Lake Ontario

The Gorilla of Cobourg fame was a four time winner of the Prince of Wales’ Cup between 1862 and 1872. R. W. Standley and a Capt. Gifford, both […]

Countess of Dufferin

Text from beneath the picture: “Countess of Dufferin: Third challenger for the America’s cup, as she appeared on the slip-way ready for launching at Cobourg, Ontario. From a wash […]

Diorama at Blairton Mine

Volunteer George Parker has built and operates a 1/20 scale model of the Cobourg & Peterborough Railway in its various incarnations. One of these was the line which […]

Cobourg and Peterborough Railway (1/20 Scale)

Text appears on screen: “Scale model (1/20) of the Cobourg and Peterborough Railway as it passes by Cobourg Harbour” Voice over begins: The story – we have to […]