Ontario Woollen Mills on Factory Creek
Description
- Creator
- Edwin C. Guillet, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Item Type
- Photographs
- Notes
- Known as Jones's Creek, Cobourg Brook and then Factory Creek this stream has been used since the first settlers to provide water power for saw mills, grist mills, breweries, distilleries and other industries. The original Factory Creek valley extended from Elgin Street to the lake between Ontario and Burnham Streets. This view shows the Woollen Mills was the largest industry in Cobourg for most of the 19th century. It was begun about 1845 by Stuart McKechnie and this two brothers. It was later carried on by Alexander Fraser and William Rosamond. At the turn of the century the factory was bought by the Dick Family from Montreal. The Woolen Mills was 4 1/2 storeys and about 60 feet x 140feet.At its peak it manufactured over 400,000 yards of cloth a year and was on of the largest industries of its kind in Canada.
- Publisher
- Edwin C. Guillet
- Place of Publication
- Cobourg
- Date of Original
- 1931
- Date Of Event
- 1931
- Subject(s)
- Local identifier
- 720-152
- 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
