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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.
Features the Sibbald Memorial Museum, a historic house and local history museum (summer months only) Sifton-Cook Heritage Centre: Cobourg: Northumberland County: Eastern: Local history, Historic Bldg. Cobourg history told in annually changing exhibits and outdoor model railway - Victoria Day weekend to Thanksgiving: Simcoe County Museum: Minesing
Cobourg's oldest annual event, the Cobourg Highland Games, was started in 1963 in Donegan Park by Dave Carr to celebrate the Scottish culture in the area. [39] The event is now held in Victoria Park in June. [40] Cobourg's beach, Victoria Park Beach, is used as a location for volleyball tournaments, events, beach days, family picnics and other ...
Coburg is the location of Veste Coburg, one of Germany's largest castles. Today, Coburg's population is close to 41,500. Since it was little damaged in World War II, Coburg retains many historic buildings, making it a popular tourist destination.
Grafton was successful enough at this time to earn a weekly column in the Cobourg daily newspaper, "Latest Items from Grafton," which ran from 1875 to 1877. The column included news of the surrounding communities and hamlets and detailed various social, political, and economic on-goings in the area, such as picnics, local crime, sporting ...
Port Hope is known for having the largest volume of historic low-level radioactive wastes in Canada. [15] The waste was created by Eldorado Mining and Refining Limited and its private sector predecessors, resulting from the refining of radium from pitchblende.
The township operated the site as a community museum, and in 1982, the Ontario Heritage Trust, an agency of the Government of Ontario, purchased the house and took over its operation. The Ontario Heritage Trust performed an extensive restoration of Barnum House between 1989 and 1991 in an effort to ensure the long-term conservation of the site.
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.