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Downtown Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. Aerial View taken from a DJI Phantom Vision Victoria College c. 1832-1836. Cobourg has several parks. The Cobourg Waterfront Festival, held in Victoria Park and the nearby beach and harbour, is an annual arts and crafts event occurring on Canada Day.
The Provincial Agricultural Fair of Canada West was an annual provincial agricultural fair held in various places [1] [2] in Canada West and after 1867 in Ontario . The fair was established in 1846 and sponsored by the Provincial Agricultural Association and the Board of Agriculture for Canada West. It replaced an earlier attempt in 1792 by the ...
Victoria Hall is a 19th-century building that serves as the Town Hall and multi-functional space in downtown Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. It was built during a time when Cobourg was prospering financially and was believed to be named the capital of Upper Canada. Victoria Hall opened in 1860 and was declared a national historic site in 1959 due to ...
The County of Victoria, or Victoria County, was a county in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was formed in 1854 as The United Counties of Peterborough and Victoria, and separated from Peterborough in 1863. In 2001, the county was dissolved and reformed as the city of Kawartha Lakes. Though first opened to settlement in 1821, the area that ...
Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Midland Railway of Canada was a historical Canadian railway which ran from Port Hope, Ontario to Midland on Georgian Bay. The line was originally intended to run to Peterborough, but the competing Cobourg and Peterborough Railway was completed in 1854 and the owner's plans changed.
British Columbia: Victoria, Vancouver. In Kingston, Ontario, to review the Royal Military College of Canada cadets on parade. 1954. 7/29 – 8/17. The Duke of Edinburgh. Quebec. Ontario: Ottawa. British Columbia: Vancouver. British Empire and Commonwealth Games, developments in Northern Territories.
The Cobourg and Peterborough Railway ( C&PRy) was one of the first railway lines to be built in Central Ontario, Canada. The line was initially considered in 1831 as a way to bring the products from the burgeoning area around Peterborough to markets on Lake Ontario through the port in the town of Cobourg. Before the railway the only means of ...
History Upper Canada Academy in Cobourg, 1863 (Victoria University Archives). Victoria College was founded as the Upper Canada Academy by the Wesleyan Methodist Church.In 1831, a church committee decided to locate the academy on four acres (1.6 hectares) of land in Cobourg, Ontario, east of Toronto, because of its central location in a large town and access by land and water.