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The Cobourg Museum Foundation was incorporated under the laws of the province of Ontario on November 22, 1999. Letters Patent of Incorporation were issued on November 22, 1999, with Douglas Sifton , Muriel Edwards and Joan Chalovich as the first directors.
The Cobourg Museum Foundation commissioned a life-sized bronze statue of Sunde called Make Waves created by Tyler Fauvelle. [9] The monument stands on a beach at Victoria Park in Cobourg overlooking Lake Ontario, the same view that inspired Sunde's fascination with ships nearly a century earlier.
Cobourg (/ ˈ k oʊ b ɜːr ɡ / KOH-burg) is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Southern Ontario 95 km (59 mi) east of Toronto and 62 km (39 mi) east of Oshawa. It is the largest town in and seat of Northumberland County .
Prince Ferdinand Georg August of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (28 March 1785 – 27 August 1851) was a German prince of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and a general of cavalry in the Austrian Imperial and Royal Army during the Napoleonic Wars.
John David Kelly (October 15, 1862 – December 27, 1958) [1] who signed his work J. D. Kelly was an "enormously popular" [2] painter, printmaker and artist-illustrator known for the series of calendar illustrations he did for the Confederation Life Association, depicting great moments in Canadian history.
It now also houses a museum as well as a library. Stadtkirche St. Moriz ("St. Maurice", 14th–16th centuries), is a Gothic edifice on the Hallenkirche plan with two towers. The interior, remade in the 18th century, include the notable funerary moment of Duke Johann Casimir for his parents, a 13 m-tall alabaster sculpture painted with statue ...
He abdicated in late 1918, and the fortress came into the possession of the state of Bavaria, but the former duke was allowed to live there until his death. The works of art collected by the family were given to the Coburger Landesstiftung, a foundation which today runs the museum. [2]: 6, 54
It was the office of the Cobourg Chamber of Commerce until its conversion to its current use as a museum about Dressler and as a visitor information office for Cobourg. [71] Each year, the Marie Dressler Foundation Vintage Film Festival is held, with screenings in Cobourg and in Port Hope, Ontario. [72]