Cobourg Museum Foundation: Cobourg Harbour - A Story of Small Town Ontario Cobourg Harbour Is Our Town
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The development of this mine by industrialists from Pittsburgh brought renewed life to the railway and, consequently, the harbour. The railway ore cars were commissioned from James Crossen […]
The route of the railway from Cobourg to Peterborough over the Rice Lake bridge is modeled with an operating train, 1/20 scale. The layout was prepared by George […]