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Cobourg
A Lake Ontario beach town with a historic downtown and a VIA Rail station.
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Why people move here
A Lake Ontario waterfront town with a kilometre of white sand at Victoria Beach, a VIA Rail station in town and two Highway 401 exits.
Homes and neighbourhoods
A historic downtown and waterfront, with grand Victorian-era homes from the 1800s still standing in the older parts of town.
Events and community
The Cobourg Waterfront Festival over Canada Day weekend, the Sandcastle Festival, Highland Games in late June and a Saturday farmers' market behind Victoria Hall.
Cobourg keeps growing.
How many people call Cobourg home, and how fast that number is rising.
Census check: Cobourg counted 19,440 people in the 2016 census and 20,519 in 2021. The median age in 2021 was 54.8, against 41.6 for Ontario.
Census counts: 2021 Census of Population, as published in the Town of Cobourg community profile and the 2021 Census statistics for Cobourg. Canada's 2026 census results are not out until 2027.
How Cobourg became Cobourg.
From the first settlers to today, the moments that shaped the town.
Where the name comes from
Renamed Cobourg in 1819 in honour of the marriage of Princess Charlotte to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
Indigenous roots
The land was home to Mississauga (Anishinaabe) peoples before Loyalist settlement began in 1798.
United Empire Loyalists found the first settlements that later become Cobourg, on land purchased from the Mississauga.
The community is renamed Cobourg. Before that it had been called Amherst.
The Upper Canada Academy is founded in Cobourg by Egerton Ryerson and the Wesleyan Conference. It becomes Victoria College in 1841.
On July 1, Cobourg is officially incorporated as a town, a few days after Queen Victoria became monarch.
The Grand Trunk Railway is built along the shore of Lake Ontario through Cobourg.
Victoria Hall opens. It is officially opened by the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, and is still the town's landmark.
A ferry service begins between Cobourg and Rochester, New York. It runs until 1952 and brings American visitors across Lake Ontario.
After the Second World War, Cobourg more than triples its population to over 18,000 residents.
History summarized from The Canadian Encyclopedia: Cobourg, Cobourg and District Historical Society, Wikipedia: Cobourg and Wikivoyage: Cobourg. Wikipedia text is available under CC BY-SA.
Famous people from Cobourg.
A film star, a Father of Confederation and an Olympic boxer with ties to Cobourg.
Marie Dressler
Film actressBorn Leila Marie Koerber in Cobourg in 1868. She became one of the great Hollywood movie stars of her time.
James Cockburn
Father of ConfederationStarted a law practice in Cobourg and served on town council. He became Canada's first Speaker of the House of Commons.
Mandy Bujold
Olympic boxerBorn in Cobourg. A two-time Pan American Games champion who boxed at the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.
Compiled from public sources, including Cobourg and District Historical Society, Parks Canada: James Cockburn and Wikipedia: Mandy Bujold. “From” means born, raised or lived here, and some have since moved away. This list is for local interest only. We have no connection to the people listed, and they do not endorse us or our services.
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