Résultats

      Scanned from book The B.O.W.S. by Margalo Gillmore and Patricia Collinge; Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York c1945. Book was about why this play was written. Starred Katherine Cornell. Digital scan only.

      The Cooey rifle factory was located in the old Ontario Woollen Mills buildings. It was taken over by Winchester-Western a manufacturer of sporting guns and ammunition.After a fire destroyed the Port Hope plant for the Cobourg Star newspaper, the production to the paper moved to the former Winchester-Western plant on …

      The Cobourg Dye Works was owned by the Dick Family from Montreal. Originally, the building housed a brewery operated by John Sinclair Wallace. Wallace came to Cobourg with his father, Captain Patrick Wallace and his cousins the Mackenchnies. The Brewery was later carried on by the Burnets and around 1895 …

      Also called the Douglas Packing Company was located on Ontario Street, north of University Ave. In 1919 the Imperial Munitions Board plant, on 15 acres west of town was purchased by the York State Fruit Company, the largest manufacturer of vinegar. Robert Douglas, a Scottish immigrant to the United States …

      George Street

      Robson-Lang Leathers Ltd.was established at Cobourg in 1926 on Alice Street and covered about 7 acres of the former Crossen Carriage works under the name of Edwards & Edwards Ltd. The Tannery was sold to John A. Lang and Sons Ltd. of Kitchener for approximately $1,000,000. this price did not …

      East side of Ontario Street, north of the railway.

      Carpet and Matting factory located on Ontario Street South

      The Cobourg Matting and Carpet Works was the only one of its kind in Canada. It was formed in 1884 out of a smaller enterprise and manufactred rugs and mats, including cocoa, jute, matting and wool rugs. Mats from this factory were in government buildings in Ottawa and Toronto and …

      The Lydia Pinkham business manufactured palliatives for various ills, especially female complaints. It started when Massachusetts-born Lydia Estes Pinkham and her sons in 1875, began selling her home-brewed patent medicine known as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The business lasted about a century. It was housed in the University Ave. …

      Postcard entitled "Main St., Cobourg, Ontario, Canada". Postmarked March 31, 1954 Businesses shown: Chainway (64 King W) -- Dr. Wm. A. Brett (Dentist) (240b George St) -- Jack Primeau Men's Wear (56 King W) -- B. F. Goodrich Tires (52 King W)