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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 town is named for HMS Ajax , a Royal Navy cruiser that served in the Second World War .
Ontario County was the name of two historic counties in the Canadian province of Ontario. Both counties were located in approximately the same area and existed on-and-off between 1792 and 1974. Their primary modern successor is the Regional Municipality of Durham, though certain parts of them were transferred to other surrounding regions.
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 Regional Municipality of Durham (/ ˈ d ʊər ə m /), informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada.Located east of Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York, it forms the east end of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is part of the Golden Horseshoe region.
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 ...
Map of Townships in Ontario South of the French River c. 1950 - 1960. ... Sudbury District in Ontario Greater Sudbury in Ontario. ... Town of Ajax; Brock Township;
In 1974, the Audley village became a part of the town of Ajax within the Regional Municipality of Durham. In January 1991, when the 9-1-1 emergency response service was installed in the Durham Region, the rural houses in the received numbers and the Ajax Post Office took over the rural mail delivery. [14]
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.