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It was important to establish a railway line between Cobourg and Peterborough. In fact, the citizens of Cobourg were largely responsible for this particular line, which opened in 1854. Unfortunate circumstances — including debilitating ice along the Rice Lake bridge — made the line unsafe and, ultimately, unprofitable.

Today a museum, this structure is the oldest existing stone building in Ottawa. During the construction of the Rideau Canal, it was a storehouse, office and treasury. The building was turned over to the Canadian government in 1864.

In the first years of the 19th century, mills helped to establish a settlement here. Then came the completion of Kingston Road and harbour improvements. Known originally as Hamilton, Cobourg was incorporated as a town in 1850.

A store established here around 1819 by Joseph Keeler, a prominent local merchant and early settler, provided the nucleus around which the community of Colborne began. The settlement thrived as more businesses started. The arrival of the Grand Trunk Railway in 1856 spurred further growth and, three years later, Colborne was incorporated as a village.

In 1912, French-Canadian educational and religious groups came together to discuss the founding of a newspaper that could be used to protest Regulation 17, which severely restricted the teaching of French in Ontario schools. From this, Le Droit was born — a French-language daily newspaper. Le Droit continues to support and defend Franco-Ontarian rights.

This abandoned roadway was used to deliver the mail for a decade until the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed in 1882.

This plaque honours the first British regiment raised specifically for service in Upper Canada (now Ontario).

This UNESCO World Heritage Site opened on May 24, 1832 to provide a secure military route between Upper and Lower Canada.

This Scottish-born master mason came to Ottawa to work on the entrance locks of the Rideau Canal and the first bridge that spanned the Ottawa River to connect Ottawa and Hull (now Gatineau). McKay built his residence, Rideau Hall, in 1838 — which was purchased by the Government of Canada to become the official residence of the Governor General.

In June 1875, the first sod on the Canadian Pacific Railway’s line from the Lakehead to the West was turned here in Fort William. The last spike was driven in 1885.

Weller contributed to some of Cobourg’s growth by offering a stagecoach operation between Hamilton and Montreal. In 1840, he made record time (37 hours and 40 minutes) conveying the Governor General from Toronto to Montreal.

The longest street in the world was built by Ontario’s first lieutenant governor, John Graves Simcoe, to connect his recently founded Town of York with the naval base at Penetanguishene on Georgian Bay.