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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
“The schooner Jessie Drummond was totally wrecked by the storm on Lake Ontario. Her crew of 7 persons were rescued without loss of life by the life saving […]
Opposition to the marina expansion utilized several graphic displays to further the cause. The simplicity of this logo, suggesting danger to both our heritage and the wildlife, made […]
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 […]
Coal from the United States was chiefly used to power the railroads running east and west across Canada. A few older citizens still have memories of coal being […]