Cobourg Public Library
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- The Cobourg Public Library was located on 90 King Street West from 1889 to 1964.
- Inscriptions
- The Mechanics Institute held the original library as they did in many towns. In Cobourg there was a Mechanics Institute as early as 1836. In 1886 it was reorganized as a public library. The first library was at town hall in what is now known as the Judges Chambers, then moved to the old YMCA building on King Street. In the mid 1950s it became a free Public Library under the new Public Libraries Act and search started for a much-needed new building. The library on Chapel Street was purchased in 1963 from Trinity United church and had been a Sunday School Hall built in 1881. This did well till 1995 when the present-day C.Gordon King Centre opened.
- Date of Original
- c. 1900
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 020-1
- Collection
- Historical Photographs
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.95977 Longitude: -78.16515
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- Copyright Statement
- Public domain: Copyright has expired according to Canadian law. No restrictions on use.
- Contact
- Cobourg Public LibraryEmail:info@cobourg.library.on.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:200 Ontario Street, Cobourg, ON K9A 5P4
