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The Cobourg at Home

a watercolour painting of a paddle wheel steamboat with two tall black funnels beside a dock leading to a warehouse. other mostly white buildings can be seen in the background

Cobourg, Lake Ontario, Philip John Bainbrigge 

Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Reproduction Copy No. C-011865

This watercolour painting shows the steamship Cobourg beside the first dock in Cobourg Harbour. At the shore the dock runs through a warehouse/customs office.

In the background left is Victoria College and right is St. Peter’s Church of England.

Dated 1840.