Cobourg

Cobourg is a town in the Canadian region of Ontario, situated in Southern Ontario 95 kilometers 59 mi east of Toronto and 62 kilometers 39 mi east of Oshawa. It is the biggest town in and seat of Northumberland County. Its closest neighbor is Port Hope, 7 km 4 mi toward the west. It is situated along Highway 401 exits 472 and 474 and the previous Highway 2 now Northumberland County Road 2. Toward the south, Cobourg outskirts Lake Ontario. Toward the north, east and west, it is encompassed by Hamilton Township.

The settlements that make up the present Cobourg were established by United Empire Loyalists in 1798. A portion of the establishing fathers and early pioneers were Eluid Nickerson, Joseph Ash, Zacheus Burnham and Asa Burnham. The Town was initially a gathering of littler towns, for example, Amherst and Hardscrabble, which were later named Hamilton. In 1808 it turned into the locale town for the Newcastle District.

It was renamed Cobourg in 1818, in acknowledgment of the marriage of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld later Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who might later move toward becoming King of Belgium. By the 1830s Cobourg had turned into a local focus, much because of its fine harbor on Lake Ontario. In 1835 the Upper Canada Academy was set up in Cobourg by Egerton Ryerson and the Wesleyan Conference of Bishops. On 1 July 1837, Cobourg was formally consolidated as a town.