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Cobourg Harbour in the 1950s

black and white photograph of a large freighter docked along a pier in the middle with a couple of cranes on board. A second pier leads back to oil tanks on shore to the left with piles of coal and a railway car along the shore between the two piers

Cobourg Harbour c. 1955

Credit: Peterborough Post Card Co. c66091

Tankers and other freighters carrying oil, coal and supplies for the Military Supply Depot were frequent visitors at Cobourg’s Harbour in the 1950s and 1960s.  Older residents still remember playing around the coal piles and the train coming down the middle of Spring Street.