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      A brief synopsis of the Ash family tree. Source: Catherine Milne, Gores Landing Acquired: May 2, 1988 Ash Family Tree George Ash Sr. and his family sons came to Upper Canada c.1795. The sons were George Jr. , Joseph, James, Samuel. George Jr. went to Cold Springs and there are …

      This is the birthplace of Edwin C. Guillet. He was born on September 29th, 1898. The Guillet family arrived in Cobourg in 1832. Edwin not only wrote the book "Cobourg 1798-1948" but also many papers on Canadian history and 25 books on Canadian social history. He died in 1975.

      The Bank of Upper Canada had a monopoly in the province during the early 1800s. James Gray Bethune was the first representative in Cobourg for the Bank of Upper Canada. Then around 1830 "Squire" Robert Henry opened the first private bank, The Cobourg Bank, at this location. James Gray Bethune, …

      Not in photo are Irene Gilbard and Victoria Cochrane. From about 1918-1926 Cobourg turned out about 300 nurses. Soon after the Ontario Government cut back and closed a number of these teaching schools saying there were too many nurses unemployed

      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 …

      Cottesmore Hall was the largest summer home in Cobourg and was built in 1910. It was built and owned by Wallace H. Rowe, president of the Pittsburgh Steel Company. There was a magnificent iron fence around the property which cost over $50,000.00 to erect and another unusual feature was the …

      Dungannon Farm was built in 1905 by the Olivers from Pittsburgh. The Oliver fortune was founded in steel, but the family later became the owners and editors of several leading Pittsburgh newpapers. After the death of Senator Oliver, the house was occupied by his son George Oliver Jr. They owned …

      General Charles Lane Fitzhugh was the youngest civil war general in the Union Army. The Fitzhughs were an old Virginia family of great wealth who spent much time in Cobourg. Charles built a pair of houses in 1902. Ravensworth, Fitzhugh built for himself and wife Emma Shoenberger,one of the wealthiest …

      This home was owned by the Field family and rented to von Koerber. It was a restaurant for awhile and it now the Tourist Information Centre with rooms dedicated to Marie Dressler

      One of the oldest houses in the village of Grafton. John Steeles was a business partner of Joseph Keeler and a founder and board member of Queen's University.

      One of the original Lawless homes in Grafton. Located at 126 Old Danforth Rd., Grafton, Ontario.

      The Columbian had two annexes, Lake View Lawn and the Baltimore. On Lake View Lawn were two first-class cottages containing, in both cottages about thirty rooms. The Baltimore was near the lake and had about twenty-five excellent sleeping rooms. It was established in 1893 and demolished in 1994.

      Built on former Training School property in 1974, Windermere Place, a 71-unit senior citizen housing complex, enjoys a fine setting with mature trees on King Street East.

      The boy in front is Edwin Guillet, son of E.C. Guillet.The old Scotch Kirk was located on King St. West at Ontario St.

      In 1842, Bishop John Strachan founded the Diocesan Theological Institute in Cobourg, an Anglican seminary that became integrated into the University of Trinity College in Toronto in 1852. It fell under the direction of his friend and former pupil, the Reverend Alexander Neil Bethune. The Trinity College Literary Institute, one …

      Teacher: Mr. Wilson Student, left to right: Top Row: -?-; Hoskin, Jean; Harper, Emily; May, Rita; -?-; Evans, Grace; -?-; -?-; -?-; McCaughey, Mildred; Middle Row: O'Grady, Rosalie; Fowler, ?; Flanaghan, ?; Roddy, Anna; Dodge, (Marie?); Caton, Alice; Crossen, Grace; Front Row: Lean, Eileen; Moyse, Dorothy; Moyse, Marjorie; -?-; Bird, …

      Fox Groceries was located on the north side of King Street east of Division Street approximately half of the east side of the old Bank of Nova Scotia building, across from the Post Office.

      T.R. Harvey & Sons was located at the corner of King and George and had occupied this site since 1864 when Thomas Harvey the second had moved there from an earlier store opened 17 years even earlier by Thomas Harvey, the first (grandfather of this photo's proprietor.)

      Located on the north side of King Street, between Division and George Street.

      Members of the Crick Family, living near by, had kept the cross in good repair. It was erected in 1882 by James B. Barber, onetime superintendent of the line. Farther south is another grave, and several unnamed labourers are buried in the northeast corner of the Church of England (St. …