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Cobourg
Cobourg ( ) is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Southern Ontario east of Toronto and east of Oshawa. It is the largest town in and seat of Northumberland County. Its nearest neighbour is Port Hope, to the west. It is located along Highway 401 (exits 472 and 474) and the former Highway 2 (now Northumberland County Road 2). To the south, Cobourg borders Lake Ontario. To the north, east and west, it is surrounded by Hamilton Township. History The land which present-day Cobourg occupies was previously inhabited by Mississauga (Anishinaabe-speaking) peoples. The settlements that make up today's Cobourg were founded by United Empire Loyalists in 1798 within Northumberland County, Home District, Province of Upper Canada. Some of the founding fathers and early settlers were Eliud Nickerson, Joseph Ash, Zacheus Burnham and Asa Allworth Burnham. The Town was originally a group of smaller villages such as Amherst and Hardscrabble, which were later named Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Highway 2
King's Highway2, commonly referred to as Highway2, is the lowest-numbered Ontario Provincial Highway Network, provincially maintained highway in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario, and was originally part of a series of identically numbered highways which started in Windsor, Ontario, Windsor, stretched through Quebec and New Brunswick, and ended in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Prior to the 1990s, Highway2 travelled through many of the major cities in Southern Ontario, including Windsor, Chatham-Kent, Chatham, London, Ontario, London, Brantford, Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, Burlington, Ontario, Burlington, Mississauga, Toronto, Oshawa, Belleville, Ontario, Belleville, Kingston, Ontario, Kingston and Cornwall, Ontario, Cornwall, and many other smaller towns and communities. Once the primary east–west route across the southern portion of Ontario, most of Highway2 was bypassed by Highway 401, which was completed in 1968. The August 1997 Ontario Highway 403 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Hall (Cobourg)
Victoria Hall is a 19th-century building that serves as the Town Hall and multi-functional space in downtown Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. It was built during a time when Cobourg was prospering financially and was believed to be named the capital of Upper Canada. Victoria Hall opened in 1860 and was declared a national historic site in 1959 due to it being a good example of the public edifice of mid-19th century Canada. Architecture Victoria Hall is a neoclassical style building faced with imported Cleveland sandstone and topped with a prominent clock tower. In the 1850s, a design competition was held to determine who would construct the town hall and architect Kivas Tully won. The building's front entrance features a portico with Corinthian columns, a Greco-Roman roofed porch, and a speaker's balcony. The building is an ‘E’ shape and is completely symmetrical. Restoration In 1970–1971, Victoria Hall was declared structurally unsafe and was vacated. The initial cost to cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontario Highway 401
King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one, is a Controlled-access highway, controlled-access 400-series highways, 400-series highway in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. It stretches from Windsor, Ontario, Windsor in the west to the Ontario–Quebec border in the east. The part of Highway 401 that passes through Toronto is North America's busiest highway, and one of the widest. Together with Quebec Autoroute 20, it forms the road transportation backbone of the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, along which over half of Canada's population resides. It is also a ''Core Route'' in the National Highway System (Canada), National Highway System of Canada. The route is maintained by the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario (MTO) and patrolled by the Ontario Provincial Police. The Speed limits in Canada, speed li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northumberland County, Ontario
Northumberland County is a county situated on the north shore of Lake Ontario, east of Toronto in Central Ontario, Canada. The Northumberland County headquarters are located in Cobourg. Municipalities Northumberland County consists of seven municipalities: The Alderville First Nation is geographically located within the County and is a part of the Northumberland census division, but, as an Indian reserve, it is independent of county administration. History The County was first established in 1792, and was organized alongside neighbouring Durham County into the Newcastle District of Upper Canada in 1802. The County was initially settled by a mix of Irish, Scottish, and English immigrants, as well as by Americans immigrating north from New England. In 1850, the Newcastle District was reorganized into the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham, an arrangement which lasted until 1973. Effective January 1, 1974, the majority of Durham County was amalgamated with Ontari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton, Ontario (township)
Hamilton Township is a rural township located in Northumberland County in central Ontario. It surrounds the Town of Cobourg. The township was named after Henry Hamilton, Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec from 1782 to 1785. Communities *Baltimore * Bewdley * Camborne *Cold Springs *Gores Landing *Harwood *Plainville () *Precious Corners () Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada Statistics Canada (StatCan; ), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture. It is headquartered in ..., Hamilton Township had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Mother tongue (2021): *English as first language: 94.0% *French as first language: 1.1% *English and French as first lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kivas Tully
Kivas Tully, Imperial Service Order, ISO (1820 – 24 April 1905) was an Irish-Canadian architect. Life Born in Garryvacum in County Laois, Ireland, Kivas Tully was the son of John P. Tully, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and Alicia Willington. He trained as an architect at the Royal Naval School in London, England, before coming to the Province of Canada in 1844, arriving in Toronto, where he began working at the firm of John George Howard, designing many important buildings throughout southern Ontario. Following Canadian Confederation, Tully joined the Ontario Department of Public Works in 1868. He was appointed the first Ontario Provincial architect (1868–1896) and engineer. He was involved in the supervising of the competition leading to the design of the Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park. As the provincial department of public works' chief architect, Tully supervised a series of district courthouses built in northern Ontario. The courth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. It is bounded on the north, west, and southwest by the Canadian province of Ontario, and on the south and east by the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. The Canada–United States border spans the centre of the lake. On the Canadian side, the major cities are Kingston, Ontario, Kingston, Mississauga, Toronto, Hamilton, Ontario, Hamilton, and St. Catharines. On the American side, the major cities are Rochester, New York, Rochester and Watertown, New York, Watertown. The last in the Great Lakes chain, Lake Ontario serves as the outlet to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River, comprising the western end of the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Its primary inlet is the Niagara River from Lake Erie. The Long Sault Dam, Long Sault control dam, primarily along with the Moses-Saunders Power Dam regulates the water level of the lake. The name ''Ontarí'io'' is most often translated from Wyandot language, Huron as "beauti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northumberland—Clarke
Northumberland—Clarke (formerly Northumberland—Peterborough South) is a federal electoral district in Ontario. Northumberland—Peterborough South was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for 19 October 2015. 77% of the riding was formed from Northumberland—Quinte West, 13% from Durham and 10% from Peterborough. The riding was originally intended to be named Northumberland—Pine Ridge. Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding will lose its territory in Peterborough County, the townships of Asphodel-Norwood and Otonabee-South Monaghan, to the Peterborough riding. As such, it was renamed Northumberland—Clarke at the 2025 federal election. Geography The riding is located in Central Ontario along Lake Ontario. It contains the entirety of Northumberland County, southern P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Area Codes 905, 289, And 365
Area codes 905, 289, 365, and 742 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Golden Horseshoe region that surrounds Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada. The numbering plan area (NPA) comprises (clockwise) the Niagara Peninsula, the city of Hamilton, the regional municipalities of Halton, Peel, York, Durham, and parts of Northumberland County, but excludes the City of Toronto. The four area codes form an overlay numbering plan for the same geographic region, where area code 905 was established in October 1993 in an area code split from area code 416. When 289 was overlaid on June 9, 2001, all local calls required ten-digit dialing. On April 13, 2010, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) introduced another overlay code, area code 365, which became operational on March 25, 2013. Area code 742 was added to the overlay on October 16, 2021. The numbering plan area surrounds the city of Toronto (area codes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Lawrence (politician)
Philip Lawrence is a Canadian politician who was elected to represent the riding of Northumberland—Peterborough South in the House of Commons of Canada in the 2019 Canadian federal election. He was appointed Shadow Minister of National Revenue in the Conservative Party's shadow cabinet on Sept. 8, 2020. Background Lawrence started his studies in Political Science at Brock University where he earned his BA. He went on to attend Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business to obtain his law degree and MBA. He started his practice in law with a focus on taxation and corporations. In 2008 he joined one of Canada's largest financial institution becoming the third generation in his family to work in Financial Services. He was 40 years of age in a statement published Sept. 22, 2018. Lawrence also chose to contribute to his profession by volunteering at the Financial Planning Standards Council. He participated in developing the examination questions, and eventua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northumberland—Peterborough South (provincial Electoral District)
Northumberland—Peterborough South is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario The Legislative Assembly of Ontario (OLA; ) is the legislative chamber of the Canadian province of Ontario. Its elected members are known as Members of Provincial Parliament (MPPs). Bills passed by the Legislative Assembly are given royal as .... The riding was created in 2015. Members of Provincial Parliament Election results References External links Map of riding for 2018 election {{DEFAULTSORT:Northumberland-Peterborough South (provincial electoral district) Ontario provincial electoral districts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Hope, Ontario
Port Hope is a municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, about east of Toronto and west of Kingston, Ontario, Kingston. It is at the mouth of the Ganaraska River on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in the west end of Northumberland County, Ontario, Northumberland County. The private Trinity College School opened here in 1868. History The Cayuga people inhabited the area in the early 17th century, and there was a Mississauga village named Cochingomink also in the 17th century. In 1778 a fur trade post was established and the settlement was known as Smith's Creek. In 1793, Loyalist (American Revolution), Loyalists from the northern colonies became the first permanent settlers of European heritage in the area, as the Crown granted them land as compensation for being forced to leave the colonies (much of their property was confiscated by rebel governments) and as payment for military service. John Graves Simcoe, then lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, established the Township o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
