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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 ...
Ajax (/ ˈ eɪ dʒ æ k s /; 2021 population: 126,666) is a waterfront town in Durham Region in Southern Ontario, Canada, located in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
History of Ajax, Ontario; J. J. Clarke Richardson Collegiate; L. Lakeridge Health Ajax and Pickering; N. Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School (Ajax) O. Ontario ...
The Region of Durham was established in 1974 as one of several new regional governments in the Province of Ontario, primarily in fast-growing urban and suburban areas. It encompasses areas that had been part of Ontario County and the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham , and was the culmination of a series of studies into municipal ...
Ontario was a provincial riding in the Canadian province of Ontario.Called Ontario South until 1933, it was active from 1867 to 1975. For its entire existence, the riding contained parts of or all of Ontario County, a now-defunct county which comprised most, but not all, of the contemporary Regional Municipality of Durham, including the municipalities of Ajax, Oshawa, Pickering and Whitby.
By province or territory: Alberta; British Columbia; Manitoba; ... Pages in category "History of Ontario by location" The following 12 pages are in this category, out ...