The late Edgar Benson, a former Canadian Minister of Finance was born in Cobourg, Ontario in 1923 to a poor family and lived in a home on the waterfront of Lake Ontario. Edgar John Benson was the youngest of three children born to Franklin and Julia. During the depression years Franklin was incapacitated by epilepsy. […]

If you have not checked out Port Hope’s historic harbour in the last year, you will be surprised and amazed what has and is happening there. The most obvious change is the former Canadian Fire Fighters Museum located at 95 Mill Street South. It has been demolished leaving only an empty lot. This museum was […]

The village of Baltimore was first surveyed in 1796, its attraction was the large stream, the Baltimore Creek flowing through the valley that would provide unlimited water power for future mills. It was joined in the south by Solomon’s Creek and other streams to eventually become Factory Creek through the town of Cobourg and into […]