Cobalt is the best site in Canada with intact physical resources (buildings, headframes, mine shafts...) that can be accurately and dramatically interpreted to convey the early hard rock mining industry in all its richness. Cobalt is the only National Historic District in Ontario, and it was selected TV Ontario's most historic town in 2002.

Come experience an exciting piece of Canadian history! Learn about the silver mining boom that sprang Cobalt into existence on bare rock in the middle of the mining area. Cobalt offers various tours & packages for all types of visitors.

Cobalt Song

CHORUS
For we'll sing a little song of Cobalt
If you don't live there it's your fault,
Oh you Cobalt where the wintry breezes blow,
and you live a life and then some,
Oh you Cobalt you're the best old Town I know.

You may talk about your cities
And all the towns you know
With trolley cars and pavements hard
And theatres where you go.
You can have your little auto
And carriages so fine
But it's hobnail boots and a flannel shirt
In Cobalt town for mine.

Old Porcupine is a muskeg
Elk Lake a fire trap
New Liskeard's just a country town
And Haileybury's just come back.
You can buy the whole of Latchford
For a nickel or a dime
But it's hobnail boots and a flannel shirt
In Cobalt town for mine.

We've got the only Lang Street
There's blind pigs everywhere
Old Cobalt Lake's a dirty place
There's mud all over the square.
We've got the darndest railroad
That never runs on time
But it's hobnail boots and a flannel shirt
In Cobalt town for mine.

We've bet our dough on hockey
And swore till the air was blue
The Cobalt stocks have emptied our socks
With the dividends cut in two.
They don't get any of our money
In darned old Porcupine
But it's hobnail boots and a flannel shirt
In Cobalt town for mine.

Song by: L. Steenman & R.L. MacAdam, 1910