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Loading Car Ferry at Cobourg
Description
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Wilf Cowin , Collector
- Media Type:
- Image
- Item Type:
- Postcards
- Description:
- Sepia-toned postcard depicting the loading of the car ferry by a Grand Trunk Railway locomotive.
- 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: Loading Car Ferry at Cobourg
- Publisher:
- The International Stationary 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:
- 2007-2020-3
- 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
Email:
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