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      Quebec exchange student, Jean Philippe disembarks from helicopter ride over Applefest , 1987

      Wesley Covenant Service Source: Trinity United, service by Rev. Douglas Heard, June 21, 1987 Acquired: June 22, 1987

      “Cobourg Sesquicentennial House Tour” ticket for June 13, 1987 Source: Unknown Acquired: June 15, 2003

      Old Vic: down but not yet out Source: Canadian Geographic, June/July 1987 Acquired: January 2008

      New life for Victoria College Source: The Cobourg Daily Star, Friday, January 15, 1987 Acquired: January 2008

      Cobourg’s Victoria Hall Source: City & Country Home/June 1987 Acquired: January 2008

      Portrait of Gordon King

      This recently restored Second Street Fire Hall, built c. 1883, is now home of the Northumberland Players.

      Store-fronts come and go throughout the years, but on the the main street of Cobourg many upper storeys retain a 19th century facade.

      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 …

      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 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 …

      Edward Crane was the architect and builder of Victoria College in 1836. It was built as the Academy of the Methodist Church and became one of Canada's earliest degree-granting universities in 1841. Egerton Ryerson, was its first president. After forming a vital part of Cobourg's academic and cultural life for …

      Victoria Park with its beach, band shell, bowling green and baseball diamond still has great expanses of lawn and flowers.

      The renaissance of the harbour has brought much pleasure to boaters, children and many Cobourg residents.

      One of the more historic buildings of Cobourg, the Lydia Pinkham building began as a public school in 1874 and within two years it became a Model School where people came to be trained as teachers. Then it became the home of the famous Lydia Pinkham's Pink Pills for Pale …

      The parish of St. Peter's was established in 1819 with the first wooden church being built in 1820. In 1851 construction started on a new brick church of some 7000 sq ft, designed by Kivas Tulley, who also designed the famous Victoria Hall, Cobourg. The new church, which had a …

      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 …

      It's orgins dates back to 1824 as a frame building, which was replaced in 1852 by this brick building. The name Trinity United was adopted around 1928. Located on the east side of Division St. at the corner of Chapel Street, it was also the source of Chapel Street's name.

 appeared in Cobourg Star, 22 Sep 1987, p. 11     ...