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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 …

      Ontario No. 1 cost about $375,000, was 317 feet long, 54.2 foot beam, 16 1/2 foot draft, speed 13-15mph, capacity of 28 loaded coal cars, 1,000 passengers, berths for 90 people.

      The waterworks were established in the 1890s. The water stand-pipe, was located on the south-east corner of D'Arcy and King, was 16 feet in diameter and 116 feet high. The pipe was pumped full and then used gravity flow to empty. It was pumped again as pressure reached a certain …

      This postcard of King Street looking east also shows the Water stand pipe that was located on the southeast corner of D'Arcy and King Street.

      Cedarmere was on the lake shore at the foot of Love Lane (now Ontario Street). It was originally built by Arthur McBean, and later occupied by the Castle family. Mrs. Castle was a sister of the Hon. James Cockburn. James Crowther, whose wife was the Castle's daughter, turned the home …