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      Miscellaneous Source: The Cobourg Star Acquired: January 2008

      Excerpts of Lieutenant Rubidge’s Emigrants Source: Unknown Acquired: January 2008

      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 …

      Paul Kane was born in Ireland but came to York (Toronto) as a boy. He studied painting at Upper Canada College and after working in Detroit, Michigan and Mobile, Alabama he went to Europe for two years to study his art. In the early 1830s, he lived in Cobourg and …

      As a writer, his narrative poem "The Ojibway Conquest" is his best.

      Henry Rutttan served as Lieutenant in the War of 1812. Distinguished conducted at Lundry's Lane where he was wounded. Henry was married to Mary Jones, the daughter of Elias Jones, one of Cobourg's first settlers. By 1820 he became a member of the Legislative Assembly. In 1827 he became the …

      Photograph of an oil painting attributed to Paul Kane in Peterborough Public Library.