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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This story uses archival photos of Bowmanville, Cobourg, Rochester and the ferries to illustrate what is being described. Phil Ayling’s Story Text appears on screen: “Now well into […]