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The CMF has participated in Cobourg's popular July 1 Waterfront Festival a number of times with the purpose of informing visitors about the unique history of the area. In its opening season, as Cobourg celebrated the 175th anniversary of its incorporation, the Heritage Centre concentrated on 1837 the year of incorporation.
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 .
Local history: 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 ...
The Coburg Doll Museum is located near the Schlossplatz and the city centre. It was once the residence of the poet Friedrich Rückert. It houses over 1,000 dolls, including the grandmother of the world-famous "Barbie". [21] Natural history museum .
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.
He died in Cobourg in 1871. His grandson, Henry Norlande Ruttan , worked as an engineer with several railway companies and served as city engineer for the city of Winnipeg . His other grandson, James Farrand Ruttan , was the mayor of Port Arthur from 1891 to 1892.
James Cockburn was Cobourg's Father of Confederation. He became a prominent lawyer in Cobourg and had an office inside Victoria Hall. The room dedicated to him is designed to represent how it may have looked in the 1860s and 1870s [2] and features his actual ledger. The furniture decorating this room was not original to the building; it was ...
She was born Harriet Clench in Cobourg and was educated at a ladies' college in Hamilton. In 1853, she married Paul Kane ; the couple had two sons and two daughters. She helped her husband produce Wanderings of An Artist Among the Indians of North America , published in 1859, from his journals.