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      The Martins Mennonite Meeting House was built in 1848 on land purchased from the Martin family. In 1900, an addition was added to the building. The building was shared by the Old Order Mennonites and the Markham-Waterloo Mennonite Conference until 1993. The Markham-Waterloo Mennonites continued to use the building and …

      Card sent from the Banting family to Edward Banting, Sir Frederick Banting's Nephew. The text reads: Edward We have moved again - now living 50 m. up the coast from Vancouver. Came here to work on an T.V. series and liked it so much we stayed. We wonder how things …

      Lakelands was originally built in 1878 and was later the residence of William Riddell. He obtained the first B.Sc. to be granted by Victoria College, Cobourg, in 1877, and later became an eminent lawyer. In 1906 he became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario. Mr. Riddell’s wife was …

      Victoria Hall was started in 1856 and completed in 1860. It was designed by Kivas Tully of Toronto. It was officially opened by the Prince of Wales on September 7th, 1860. In the 1960s Lenah Fisher began tireless efforts to restore Victoria Hall which began in earnest in the 1980s …

      This cenotaph is located in Victoria Park and was built in the early 1920s.

      Known as G.E.Plastics which opened in Cobourg in 1946. The new plant is located in Hamilton Township on Normar Rd. (Used to be Borg-Warner).

      The Ontario Hospital opened in 1921 in the old Victoria College building with all its patients being female. It operated as a Mental Hospital and had a resident population of approximately 530. The focus was on care rather than treatment and training. In 1968 the Mental Hospitals Act came into …