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unusual facts about Cobden-Chevalier Treaty


Cobden–Chevalier Treaty

Lord Cowley, the British Ambassador to France, and Cobden signed on behalf of the United Kingdom and Jules Baroche, the French Foreign Minister, and Rouher for France.


Cobden, Ontario

Cobden is the home town of Susie Laska, former professional hockey player for the NWHL; Lee Fraser, president of Canadians Abroad and Hollywood entertainment executive; Robert Wellington Mayhew, the first Canadian ambassador to Japan, and Brad Pender, Cobden's first professional baseball player with the Trois-Rivières Saints.

It is known that he eventually made his way to Green Lake and at this point, according to several 17th century authors, Champlain lost his Astrolabe.

Djargurd Wurrung

The Djargurd wurrung are Indigenous Australian people who traditionally occupied the territory between Mount Emu Creek and Lake Corangamite, extending to Mount Emu and Cressy in the North, and to Cobden and Swan Marsh in the South in central Victoria and are still represented in the region.

Michel Chevalier

Together with Richard Cobden and John Bright he prepared the free trade agreement of 1860 between the United Kingdom and France, which is still called Cobden-Chevalier Treaty.

Whitewater Region

In 1849 Jason Gould built a road from what came to be called Goulds Landing to what would become Cobden on Muskrat Lake.

Cobden is the hometown of Susie Laska, former professional hockey player for the NWHL; Lee Fraser, president of Canadians Abroad and Hollywood entertainment executive; and Robert Wellington Mayhew, the first Canadian ambassador to Japan.


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