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      Sketch by Barry King "Named for Cuthbert Cumming, a retired Hudson’s Bay trader, and his wife, Jane, who purchased this property on May 5, 1845, the residence at 7 King Street West in Colborne was built in the 1830s. It is a Georgian-styled Ontario Cottage with wide eave overhangs. The ...

      Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, May 25, 2002 Sketch and text by Barry King "Old village storefronts are a vanishing breed, This sturdy commercial structure was once Harry Hart’s butcher shop and later Lawrence Naish’s egg-grading station. The early frame structure, now missing its shady verandah and roofline bracketing, recalls a ...

      Colborne Chronicle, Thursday, January 11, 2001 Sketch and text by Barry King "Though the present brick church was dedicated in 1865 after an extensive remodeling, its origins date from 30 years earlier in its original frame structure. With the elevating of the building, the addition of a basement, new choir ...

      The Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, June 21, 2003 Sketch and text by Barry King "If these old stones could talk, they would speak of the story of early settlement along the shores of Lake Ontario, and of the beginnings of the communities of Lakeport and Colborne. The old ruins of ...

      Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, August 31, 2002 The old Cramahe Township Town Hall Sketch and text by Barry King "The pride of Castleton, this well-proportioned building resembles a temple in design. Dominated by the grand arched entranceway, the front façade is patterned with several masterful examples of the bricklayer’s art. ...

      Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, June 28, 2001 The Oriental Hotel, Castleton Sketch and text by Barry King "Built by Timothy S. Giroux, a hotelkeeper from Norham, the Oriental Hotel has dominated the northeast corner of Spring and Percy Streets in Castleton since 1890. Although its projecting balcony has been enlarged ...

      Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, July 20, 2002 Simmons Block, King Street East, Colborne Sketch and text by Barry King "David Lewis Simmons was one of the so-called Late Loyalists who came to Upper Canada after 1790. He was encouraged by then-land agent Joseph Keeler, the father of the founder of ...

      Saturday Morning Post, Cobourg, November 18, 1989 The Purdy Milling Company Sketch and text by Barry King "Standing tall and quiet, the old Purdy Mill casts long thoughtful shadows across the road that finds its way to Castleton [County Road 25 in 2018]. Amid autumn’s misty amber days, the venerable ...

      Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, September 8, 2001 The Land Registry Office, Colborne Sketch and text by Barry King "Dating from the 1850s, the Colborne Registry Office was charged with collecting and keeping safe, behind its barred windows, all the property transactions of East Northumberland. When the records were consolidated at ...

      Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, May 12, 2001 King Street East, Colborne Sketch and text by Barry King "Thought to have been built about 1875 when early records indicate that $5,000 was spent on the property, this fine brick house on King Street East [number 69] in Colborne belies its age. ...

      Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, April 21, 2000 Trinity Church, Colborne Sketch and text by Barry King "The first Anglican place of worship in Colborne was a log schoolhouse on Division Street where services were conducted by travelling missionaries as early as 1836. A meeting in 1843 led to the building ...

      Thornton House, Colborne Sketch by Barry King "Built in 1810, this is reputed to be the oldest home in Colborne. Built in the Georgian tradition at 3 King Street West with a central hall plan, the house is thought to have been constructed in two stages, with an eight-foot-square chimney ...

      Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, September 21, 2001 Russ’ School, S.S. No. 20 Sketch and text by Barry King "Located in the seventh concession of the former Haldimand Township, the first Russ’ School was built about 1845 when the school district was first organized. It was a frame or log structure ...

      Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, January 26, 2002 The Doyle House, Castleton Sketch and text by Barry King "Just north of the old Cramahe Township Hall on Percy Street in Castleton stands a charming red-brick home in the familiar Ontario Gothic style. Of particular interest is the unusually paned Gothic-arched window ...

      Port Hope Evening Guide, Saturday, March 2, 2002 The Keeler House, Colborne Sketch and text by Barry King "To those familiar with the Barnum House Museum, located on County Road 2 in Grafton, Keeler House on Church Street East in Colborne would appear to be its twin. Built about the ...

      Cobourg Daily Star, Saturday, September 24, 2004 Red Cloud Schoolhouse Sketch and text by Barry King "Until the summer of 1993, Red Cloud Schoolhouse was the oldest of Cramahe Township’s school buildings still standing. Although the date of its construction is uncertain, the will of Charles H. Bull in 1874 ...

      A sketching of a proposed shipyard in Lake Erie.

      Handwritten note by B. W. Ellis, Deputy Registrar: "This sketch was copied from plan 37 and does not form part of the annexed abstract."

      "Given to Jean Hill by George E. Levett in 1920"

 The Railway and Marine World (Toronto, ON: Acton Burrowes), April 1911, p. 375     The above is a somewhat crude illustration, but the best available of the s.s. Toiler, which is being built in England for the Canadian canal and lake trade, and which was fully described in our last issue.