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      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five years during World War I.

      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five years during World War I.

      A cabestan is a wooden winch used to manually haul a boat onto a beach. Two long wooden poles are inserted into holes in the vertical post. Groups of people push and pull the poles clockwise while another person winds the cable from the boat. To the right of the …

      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five years during World War I. The seaside L’Hotel des Roches Blanches was converted to this …

      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five years during World War I.

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      A piece of farm machinery being pulled by 2 horses. A man sits on the machine and another man stands in front of it.

      A watercoloured photograph of King St. Beamsville (Reg. Rd 81) looking east.

      See reverse for correspondence and postage stamp. Postmarked 1900.

      The town hall was located on the south west corner of Richmond and Simcoe streets. The Williams Piano Works was located on Richmond Street at Church Street (now Centre street.

      Main Street, Georgetown looking north; taken from the Knox Presbyterian Church bell tower.

      An earlier church pre-dated this structure which was built in 1896. Earliest mention of the church is 1877.

      Cobourg had developed a ‘House of Refuge’ near the corner of James and George streets in the early 1890s. The home took in the elderly, indigent and destitute of the community. Soon there was a need for a hospital and a portion of the home was turned over to that …

      In 1856, Ebenezer Perry sold this corner property to the Bank of Montreal who then built this building around 1860. In 1881, it was conveyed to W. D. Burn who sold it to the Crown in December 1882 and it became the Cobourg Post Office. In 1889, after the addition …

      The water slide in the background was a much-loved feature with children hurtling down a wooden slide in a toboggan on wheels. The slide stretched out over the water and into the harbour. It was in the area between the east pier and where the beach ended and was run …

      This cenotaph is located in Victoria Park and was built in the early 1920s.

      Looking west from breakwater. Cedarmere property on right.

      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 …

      Golf was very popular and with the backing of American vacationers, the Cobourg Golf Club was established in 1898. It became a social centre and each year a grand dance was held here. The club cost $800 and had dressing rooms for the ladies and gentlemen, a verandah along the …

      Black and white photograph postcard of Port Hope.