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The Township was established in 1792 () as part of what was then York County. Whitby Township was one of five townships along Lake Ontario named for towns in northeast England ( York , Scarborough , Pickering , Whitby and Darlington ).
Lynde House Museum, c. 1812 Whitby Township (now the Town of Whitby) was named after the seaport town of Whitby, Yorkshire, England.. When the township was originally surveyed in 1792, the surveyor, from the northern part of England, named the townships east of Toronto after towns in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire: York, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Darlington. [3]
Whitby, Area 31,386 acres (127 km 2). Opened in 1792 and named for an English seaport. Community centres: Oshawa, Whitby, Brooklin, Ashburn and Myrtle. The Town of Oshawa was also located in the county. In 1855 the Town of Whitby was incorporated in part of Whitby Township.
Whitby was called Streanæshalc, Streneshalc, Streoneshalch, Streoneshalh, and Streunes-Alae in Lindissi in records of the 7th and 8th centuries.Prestebi, from Old Norse býr (village) and presta (of the priests), is an 11th-century name.
A railway station was constructed and the community that grew in the vicinity was known as Myrtle Station. The community was originally part of Whitby Township and became part of the Town of Whitby when the two municipalities amalgamated in 1968. From 1994 until 2004 Myrtle Station hosted the annual Grasstock music and arts festival.
Myrtle is a community in the Town of Whitby, Durham Region, Ontario, Canada. Myrtle, located in what was Whitby Township, was first named Well's Corners. In 1856, the name of the community was changed to Wellwood and again to Myrtle in the 1860s. In 1968, Myrtle became part of the Town of Whitby when the Town amalgamated with Whitby Township.
In 1958, township leaders decided to establish a public library supported by property taxes and a new building was completed in 1961. [5] In 1968, the Town and Township of Whitby amalgamated to form a newly expanded Town of Whitby and the Township library in Brooklin became a branch of the Whitby library system.
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Whitby Township is a civil township in Bottineau County in the U.S. state of ...