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The boundaries of the town of Ajax were expanded to include several areas of the former Pickering Township, including Pickering Village, Pickering Beach, and Audley. [27] In 1995, Ajax was the first community along the 3,600-kilometre (2,200 mi) Great Lakes Waterfront Trail to erect a pedestrian-only asphalt waterfront trail.
The town of Ajax, Ontario in Canada evolved out of the Defence Industries Limited Pickering Works munitions plant built during the World War II, but its history begins much earlier. The indigenous peoples were active in the watersheds of the Duffins Creek and the Carruthers Creek since the Archaic period (7000–1000 BCE), although they did not ...
The community around the DIL munitions plant evolved into the town of Ajax in the mid-20th century. The northern part of the Duffins Creek watershed did not develop as rapidly as other watersheds in the Greater Toronto area, because the Government of Canada marked a large portion of land for the proposed Pickering Airport .
The Ajax Archives was established by town council in 2010. In 2022, the management of the archives was transferred from the Town of Ajax to the Ajax Public Library. [1] The archives contain a collection of municipal records of permanent value and include photos, documents, and books.
Pickering Village is a former municipality and now a neighbourhood in the town of Ajax, within the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada. The Pickering Village derives its name from the former Pickering Township, which included the present-day town of Ajax and the city of Pickering. A small portion of the original settlement is now part of the ...
The unincorporated community that developed around the plant was named Ajax in honour of the British warship Ajax, and evolved into the town of Ajax, Ontario. At its peak, the plant had 9000 workers (the majority of them women), and produced over 40 million rounds of shells. The plant premises and the surrounding area had several town-like ...
Ajax the Lesser, another name for Arex, one of the Eternals from Marvel Comics; Ajax, a member of the Pantheon appearing in Marvel Comics; Ajax (Francis Freeman), a fictional supervillain first appearing in Deadpool #14; Martian Manhunter, a DC Comics superhero called Ajax in Brazil and Portugal; Ajax, a Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 operative
Ajax is a federal electoral district in the Durham Region of Ontario. Ajax was created by the 2012 riding redistribution from the portion of Ajax—Pickering [ 3 ] consisting of the entire town of Ajax, Ontario , and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order.