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      The Ontario Car Ferry company was formed in 1905 in a joint venture between the Grand Trunk Railway and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pennsylvania Railroad. The two ferries based in Cobourg also perfomed the secondary function of taking passengers and sometimes their cars across Lake Ontario. This first ferry, named …

      The Ontario Car Ferry company was formed in 1905 in a joint venture between the Grand Trunk Railway and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pennsylvania Railroad. The two ferries based in Cobourg also perfomed the secondary function of taking passengers and sometimes their cars across Lake Ontario. Business expanded so extensively …

      The Ontario Car Ferry company was formed in 1905 in a joint venture between the GTRailway and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pennsylvania Railroad. The two ferries based in Cobourg also perfomed the secondary function of taking passengers and sometimes their cars across Lake Ontario. This first ferry, named the Ontario …

      Just before World War I John Helm of Port Hope, Harry Black of New York and W.J. Crossen of Cobourg gave $20,000, $10,000 and $5,000 respectively for the building of this hospital. It opened January 1914 and could accommodate some forty patients. It had a number of additions over the …

      During World War I, when Victoria College was no longer a school, it became a convalescent hospital for soldiers returning from the trenches of World War I. Almost all the patients were victims of shell-shock. It closed as a military hospital in 1920.

      The harbour has been rebuilt, dredged and expanded many times in the past century and a half. It is actually entirely artificial as the bay formed by Midtown Creek was just a swampy inlet, which the Cobourg business people quickly recognized as a great opportunity if it becam a major …

      The Car Ferry had to break ice all the way from Rochester this winter.

      Traces of Ruttan heritage Source: The Cobourg Daily Star, January 29, 1988 Acquired: December 2007

      Cobourg's largest industry, General Foods Limited, purchased the Douglas Pectin Ltd. plant in 1929. Located on William Street.

      Cobourg's largest industry, General Foods Limited, purchased the Douglas Pectin Ltd. plant in 1929. Located on William Street.

      Letter regarding a requested quit Claim Deed dated June 17, 1922. Source: unknown Acquired: August 2003

      Agreement for Sale of Land dated July 7, 1922 between Colin C. Arthur and Edward W. Bickle. Source: unknown Acquired: August 2003

      Letter regarding the Assessment Notice of 1923/24 dated September 12, 1923. Source: unknown Acquired: August 2003

      Cobourg's west pier sheathed in ice in the winter of 1922 plus some shore icebergs.

      Taken in front of Victoria Hall.

      This photograph was taken in front of Victoria Hall, Cobourg.

      202 Church Street. This photograph was taken at the time Mary Painter Howard, an American widow from Pittsburgh bought it and moved here with her seven children. She moved to Cobourg because of the many American Summer colony residents she was acquainted with and so she could stretch her American …

      This photograph was taken at the time Mary Painter Howard, an American widow from Pittsburgh bought it and moved here with her seven children. She moved to Cobourg because of the many American Summer colony residents she was acquainted with and so she could stretch her American dollars further

      This photograph was taken at the time Mary Painter Howard, an American widow from Pittsburgh bought it and moved here with her seven children. She moved to Cobourg because of the many American Summer colony residents she was acquainted with and so she could stretch her American dollars further

      This photograph was taken at the time Mary Painter Howard, an American widow from Pittsburgh bought it and moved here with her seven children. She moved to Cobourg because of the many American Summer colony residents she was acquainted with and so she could stretch her American dollars further