Cobourg Gas Works
Description
- Creator
- Edwin C. Guillet, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- This historic building was erected between 1855 and 1856.
- Notes
- The Gas Works was Cobourg's oldest public utility, this building being constructed in 1855. Then, till the 1890s the lighting of the town streets was all gas. Even as electric slowly came into existence, many street lights continued till just before World War 1. Some of the homes still used gas, but on September 8, 1938 the public was notifided that the Gas Works would close on December 31 of that year. The building was then occupied by Curtis Beauty Products Limited.
- Date of Original
- 1931
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 720-149
- Collection
- Historical Photographs
- 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
