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Harbour at Cobourg, Ont.
Description
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Wilf Cowin , Collector
- Media Type:
- Image
- Item Type:
- Postcards
- Description:
- Sepia-toned postcard of Ontario No. 1 Car Ferry in the harbour. The S.S. Ontario No. 1 cost about $375,000, was 317 feet long, 54.2 foot beam, 16 1/2 foot draft, speed 13-15mph, capacity of 28 loaded coal cars, 1,000 passengers, berths for 90 people. This postcard shows in in the Cobourg Harbour at the pier. Postmarked at Cobourg, August 29, 1912, 9:30 pm.
- Notes:
- The Ontario Car Ferry company was formed in 1905 in a joint venture between the Grand Trunk Railway and the Buffalo, Rochester and Pennsylvania Railroad. The two ferries based in Cobourg also perfomed the secondary function of taking passengers and sometimes their cars across Lake Ontario. This first ferry, named the Ontario No. 1 was launched in April 1907 and made her first trip with Captain Forrest on November 20th from Charlotte the port for Rochester, New York with a full load of 28 cars of coal.
- Inscriptions:
- Front: Harbour at Cobourg, Ont.
Back: 'S'Low old Canada for me, Ted"
Addressed to Miss E. Batsford, 72 Watson Place, Utica, N.Y., U.S.A.
- Publisher:
- The International Stationery Co.
- Place of Publication:
- Picton, Ontario
- Date of Original:
- ca. 1912
- Dimensions:
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Width: 14 cm
Height: 9 cm
- Subject(s):
- Local identifier:
- 2007-2020-1
- Collection:
- Graphics
- Language of Item:
- English
- Geographic Coverage:
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Latitude: 43.95977
Longitude: -78.16515
- Donor:
- Wilf Cowin Estate
- Copyright Statement:
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Holder:
- CDHS Archives
- Contact:
Cobourg And District Historical Society Archives
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