"Cobourg, Lake Ontario" by J. P. Cockburn - 1830 ">Details First newspaper office in Cobourg - c.1831 Details In 1918 Martin Jex and Co. and Mrs. Florence Sutherland transformed the old Commercial Hotel into a new motion picture theater and leased it to Jule and J.J. Allen who named it the Allen. The Allen went on to become the Capitol. Cobourg Post Office c. 1875 Details King George Theater c. 1900 Details Leonard and Son's - c. 1900 Details Taken on top of Arlington Hotel, Cobourg - 1905 Details The Bank of Toronto came to Cobourg in the early 1850s. After the CPR was complete many Chinese men were left unemployed. Many opened up laundries, as it was a job that was undesirable by white Canadians. This Laundry is believed to be the first in Cobourg and was located at the corner of Division and Covert St. Colonel William Chambliss, son-in-law of George Shoenberger, one of the wealthiest families in Pennsylvania, had moved to Cobourg in 1867. Once here he saw the advantage of having a first class hotel for the American upper class to use as a summer retreat. Cedarmere was on the lake shore at the foot of Love Lane (now Ontario Street).James Crowther, turned the home into a hotel which was popular with both the wealthy American summer colony and the regular Cobourg society. McBride's Furniture and Undertaker - c. 1910 Details Burns Blacksmith Shop - c. 1914 Details Bell Telephone office - C.1915 Details Till the 1890s the lighting of the town streets was all gas. Even as electric slowly came into existence, many street lights continued to be gas until just before World War I. On September 8, 1938 the public was notifided that the Gas Works would close on December 31 of that year.
Canadian Canners Limited c. 1945 Details Douglas-Pectin Limited - C. 1945 Details King Street, Cobourg - c.1952 Details Curtis Products Limited - c.1954 Details General Foods Limited - 1956 Details Woman and Child make Sun-Up instance breakfast drink. The owner of his house Leopold Kobald was a butcher who came to Cobourg in 1847. Over the years he built up quite a business and had a stall at the Cobourg Market for 24 years. In 1881 he followed one son to Winnipeg where he and three sons built up one of the largest butcher supply businesses in Canada. Another son began what later became the Western Packing Company. London to Brighton Antique Car Rally - c.1962 Details General Foods Limited - 1965 Details Canadian General Electric - c.1980 Details Cobourg Store-Fronts - 1987
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