The Cobourg and District Historical Society will meet on Tuesday, April 22 in the Citizens’ Forum, Victoria Hall at 8:00 p.m. The guest speaker, Murray Dillon, will speak about Our Legal System and how it is connected to familiar events in history, followed by the Annual General Meeting. Coffee available from 7:30. Everyone welcome.
The Cobourg and District Historical Society invites you to a celebration of St. Patrick’s Day on Tues. March 25 at 8 p.m. (coffee at 7:30) at the Citizens’ Forum, Victoria Hall.
Please bring your Irish treasures and stories that go with them.
Everyone welcome, Irish or not.
The next meeting of the Cobourg and District Historical Society will take place Tuesday, February 26 at the Citizens’ Forum, Victoria Hall (second floor).
Michael Peterman and Hugh Brewster will be discussing their new book Sisters in Two Worlds.
The meeting will begin at 8:00. Coffee will be available at 7:30.
About Sisters in Two Worlds
Containing two hundred colour and black-and-white images, many of them never-before published, this extraordinary book chronicles the lives of two exceptional and inspirational women: sisters, writers, pioneers, and forces of the Canadian imagination.
“These two women exert a timeless fascination . . . [their] story reminds us, as Canadians, of where we have come from and how far we have travelled.”
—Charlotte Gray, in the introduction to Sisters in Two Worlds.Their childhood was spent in a manor house in the Suffolk countryside. As aspiring young authors, they attended literary evenings in the drawing rooms of Georgian London. But in 1832 Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill crossed the Atlantic to embark on new lives in the backwoods of Upper Canada where they struggled to survive and raise their families in a strange and often hostile world. By the light of homemade candles, Susanna and Catharine wrote about their experiences, producing such enduring classics as Roughing it in the Bush and The Backwoods of Canada. And Catharine’s beautifully illustrated books on Canadian plants and wildflowers were the first of their kind.
Sisters in Two Worlds recreates the remarkable lives of these two pioneering writers. Its absorbing narrative is complemented by modern colour photographs of the places they knew, combined with archival images, paintings, letters, and family artifacts. Written by Canada’s foremost Moodie/Traill scholar, this visual biography is an informative new look at two of this country’s seminal writers and a remarkable tapestry of life in early Canada. (Amazon.ca)
On August 23, 1902 Frederick Roosevelt Scovel, cousin to then President Theodore Roosevelt, married Vivian May Sartoris the granddaughter of former President Ulysses S. Grant. The marriage was such an event that it was written up in the New York Times. The CDHS Archives is proud to have a photograph of their marriage. We will be bringing the photograph as part of our display to the Cobourg Heritage Fair on February 1 -2 and the Port Hope Heritage Fair on February 16.
Here NY Times article is here.