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  • Article entitled “Unnatural harbour made many changes"
    Article entitled “Unnatural harbour made many changes"
    ImageNewspaper       Article entitled “Unnatural harbour made many changes” by Percy L. Climo Source: Saturday Morning Post, December 2, 1989 Acquired: April 11, 2005
    ImageNewspaper     Article entitled “Unnatural harbour made many changes” by Percy L. Climo Source: Saturday Morning Post, December 2, 1989 Acquired: April 11, 2005
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  • A description and plan of the town of Cobourg from 1797 to 1831
    A description and plan of the town of Cobourg from 1797 to 1831
    Image       A description and plan of the town of Cobourg from 1797 to 1831 by Sandford A. Fleming. Source: Percy Climo Acquired: March 1, 1988
    Image     A description and plan of the town of Cobourg from 1797 to 1831 by Sandford A. Fleming. Source: Percy Climo Acquired: March 1, 1988
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  • Cobourg Harbour
    Cobourg Harbour
    Image       First Seaway Ship at Cobourg Harbour
    Image     First Seaway Ship at Cobourg Harbour
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  • Cobourg Harbour
    Cobourg Harbour
    Image       Seaway shipping and pleasure craft harbour facilities at Cobourg
    Image     Seaway shipping and pleasure craft harbour facilities at Cobourg
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  • T-Pier off East Pier, Cobourg Harbour
    T-Pier off East Pier, Cobourg Harbour
    Image       Unloading freight for Ordinance Depot.
    Image     Unloading freight for Ordinance Depot.
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  • Yacht Aida
    Yacht Aida
    Imagecomment       Yachting had been popular in Cobourg as early as the 1850s. Regattas were held in the harbour and Cobourg was a noted shipbuilding centre in the early eighteen-thirties. Later, Cobourg was on of the points on Royal Canadian Yacht Club Three Point race, the others being Toronto and Rochester. This …
    Imagecomment     Yachting had been popular in Cobourg as early as the 1850s. Regattas were held in the harbour and Cobourg was a noted shipbuilding centre in the early eighteen-thirties. Later, Cobourg …
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  • Cobourg Beach
    Cobourg Beach
    Image       As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario's north shore. The beach was a place of stopover and encampment, especially at the west end of the beach where the large stream entered the lake. This area …
    Image     As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario's north shore. The beach was a place of …
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  • Cobourg Beach
    Cobourg Beach
    Image       As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario's north shore. The beach was a place of stopover and encampment, especially at the west end of the beach where the large stream entered the lake. This area …
    Image     As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario's north shore. The beach was a place of …
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  • Victoria Park Beach
    Victoria Park Beach
    Image       As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario's north shore. The beach was a place of stopover and encampment, especially at the west end of the beach where the large stream entered the lake. This area …
    Image     As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario's north shore. The beach was a place of …
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  • Cobourg Beach
    Cobourg Beach
    Image       As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario's north shore. The beach was a place of stopover and encampment, especially at the west end of the beach where the large stream entered the lake. This area …
    Image     As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario's north shore. The beach was a place of …
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  • Cobourg Beach
    Cobourg Beach
    Image       As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario's north shore. The beach was a place of stopover and encampment, especially at the west end of the beach where the large stream entered the lake. This area …
    Image     As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario's north shore. The beach was a place of …
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  • Victoria Park
    Victoria Park
    Imagecomment       As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario'79064s north shore. The beach was a place of stopover and encampment, especially at the west end of the beach where the large stream entered the lake. This area …
    Imagecomment     As far back as the early 1800s Cobourg's main beach was used as a stopover location for travellers along the Lake Ontario'79064s north shore. The beach was a place of …
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  • Yacht Aida
    Yacht Aida
    Image       Yachting had been popular in Cobourg as early as the 1850s. Regattas were held in the harbour and Cobourg was a noted shipbuilding centre in the early eighteen-thirties. Later, Cobourg was on of the points on Royal Canadian Yacht Club Three Point race, the others being Toronto and Rochester. This …
    Image     Yachting had been popular in Cobourg as early as the 1850s. Regattas were held in the harbour and Cobourg was a noted shipbuilding centre in the early eighteen-thirties. Later, Cobourg …
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  • Waterfront in Cobourg as seen from an aeroplane
    Waterfront in Cobourg as seen from an aeroplane
    Image       Photographic reproduction of a postcard.
    Image     Photographic reproduction of a postcard.
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  • Cobourg Harbour, Winter of 1898
    Cobourg Harbour, Winter of 1898
    Image       Photograph of the east side of the harbour.
    Image     Photograph of the east side of the harbour.
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  • S.S.Ontario No.1 and No.2, Cobourg Harbour, Ontario
    S.S.Ontario No.1 and No.2, Cobourg Harbour, Ontario
    Image       From the 1850s to the 1870s Charlotte, New York had a flourishing business in shipping but then certain bills were passed by the federal government favoring the railroads and harbours became nearly empty. In 1880 Bell, Lewis and Yates Co. built coal docks on the river next to the iron …
    Image     From the 1850s to the 1870s Charlotte, New York had a flourishing business in shipping but then certain bills were passed by the federal government favoring the railroads and harbours …
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  • Cobourg Harbour
    Cobourg Harbour
    Image       S.S.Ontario No.2 in the Cobourg Harbour.
    Image     S.S.Ontario No.2 in the Cobourg Harbour.
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  • Cobourg, 1840
    Cobourg, 1840
    Image       The Cobourg Harbour Co. was incorporated and began operating in about 1830, starting with this pier. This first pier began near the entrance to the present trailer park, extended 500 feet into the lake and ended with a lighthouse. This is a photograph of the original. This sketch was made …
    Image     The Cobourg Harbour Co. was incorporated and began operating in about 1830, starting with this pier. This first pier began near the entrance to the present trailer park, extended 500 …
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  • Remains of Old East Pier
    Remains of Old East Pier
    Image       As the advertisement of 1831 put it: "Wanted - 500 sticks of pine timber, 30 feet long and 12 inches square..." The Cobourg Harbour Co. was incorporated and began operating in about 1830, starting with this pier. This first pier began near the entrance to the present trailer park, extended …
    Image     As the advertisement of 1831 put it: "Wanted - 500 sticks of pine timber, 30 feet long and 12 inches square..." The Cobourg Harbour Co. was incorporated and began operating …
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  • East Pier looking north
    East Pier looking north
    Image       The Cobourg Harbour Co. was incorporated and began operating in about 1830, starting with this pier. This first pier began near the entrance to the present trailer park, extended 500 feet into the lake and ended with a lighthouse.Within ten years the West pier was built and the East pier …
    Image     The Cobourg Harbour Co. was incorporated and began operating in about 1830, starting with this pier. This first pier began near the entrance to the present trailer park, extended 500 …
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