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unusual facts about Cobourg


George T. Oliver

Oliver owned a summer estate named Dungannon Hall in Hamilton Twp, Ontario, just north of Cobourg.


Allan Cup Hockey

In June, 2008 after some reorganization, the Frankford Huskies were revived with a new owner but same management in the town of Baltimore which is just north of Cobourg.

CFMX

CFMZ-FM, a radio station in Cobourg, ON that carried the CFMX-FM call letters until September 2006.

Edith Kerr Macdonald

Edith Kerr Macdonald (1870–1957) was born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada in 1870, daughter of Senator William Kerr (politician) and Myra Field Kerr of Cobourg, Ontario, Hamilton Township.

Henry Bowyer Lane

Lane's education included time at Blundell's School in Tiverton and subsequent professional training in England before he emigrated to Canada in 1841, living first in Cobourg, Upper Canada, and then in Toronto.

William Henry Brouse

Born in Matilda Township, Dundas County, Upper Canada of German ancestry, he attended Upper Canada Academy in Cobourg, Canada West in 1839, Victoria College until 1845, and received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1847 from McGill College.


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