About Cobourg

Where is Cobourg?

The Town of Cobourg is one hour East of Toronto via Highway 401 and is on the shore of Lake Ontario, in Ontario, Canada. Go to Google for a map on how to get here. Additional maps - current and historical - can be found here.

The History of Cobourg has been well documented and now a large amount of this is on the web - see the site CobourgHistory.ca.

The major feature of Cobourg is the waterfront on Lake Ontario where there is a Marina (run by the Town of Cobourg), Yacht club, sandy beach and an extensive Park area. The photo at the top of each page on this site shows the Harbour Entrance.

See our Photo Gallery.

Performances by many groups and Events (such as the annual Waterfront Festival) keep residents and visitors entertained.

And of course, being in the heart of UEL territory, the Canada Day parade is a big affair and is led by the Cobourg Concert band. Photos of them are often featured on the photo page. The history of this band goes back a long way (more) and every year, they participate in joint Historical re-enactments in New York state.

The most recent major event was the Waterfront Festival - June 28 to July 1st. Their web site here.

For a list of web sites based in Cobourg, see Cobourg on the Web.

See the above for Cobourg's weather from iBegin. For the official forecast see also Environment Canada.

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Photos- updated July 2008
Click here for a Cobourg Photo Album - updated July 2008 - 3 pages, 81 photos total

On the July 1st weekend, Cobourg had its annual Waterfront Festival. Not only do we have the usual parade, there is also entertainment at the bandshell (and more), Fine Art on sale and display in the Lion's Club tent, quality crafts for sale in the Rotary tents, beer in the beer tents and last but not least, a wonderful beach to enjoy.

This year the weather was best on Canada Day and there was a great turn out to "soak up the sun".

Photos at right are from the 2008 event.