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Raglan is a community in Ontario. It is located 10 miles north of Oshawa and 35 miles northeast of Toronto. The village is famous for the country store and farm on the corner of Simcoe and Raglan Road. White Feather Farms first started in the 1960s when a former Dutch settler purchased the property.
Durham County (area 376,397 acres (1,523 km 2)) is an historic county in Ontario, Canada. It was named for the English County Durham and city of Durham . It was created in 1792 but was later merged Northumberland County to form the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham .
The Hamlet of Brougham is now the current site of the Highway 407 ETR/Ontario Highway 7 Bypass as part of the 407 expansion through Eastern Durham Region. At this juncture, the 407 leads from the Hamlet, and runs parallel with Highway 7 until it reaches Bowmanville.
Durham considers itself a hockey town, and for the most part it is true. Hockey is the most popular pastime and normally draws over 250 children and teens into its Minor Hockey system. Durham has won a number of All-Ontario Championships. The town's parent club under minor hockey guidelines is the Grey-Bruce Highlanders AAA Hockey Team.
On July 1, 2024, the Ontario government opened the Uxbridge Urban Provincial Park in the Township of Uxbridge. [14] The park is the province's first urban provincial park. The park was first announced in the 2023 provincial budget, and the proposed urban park may include up to 532 hectares (1,315 acres) of provincially-owned lands. [ 15 ]
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.
Mitchell Corners is a community in Ontario, Canada. It is located within the municipality of Clarington , directly north of Courtice , at the intersection of Trulls Road and Taunton Rd. It was named after the early settlers to the area.
The United Counties of Northumberland and Durham was a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.The two counties were originally combined in the District of Newcastle formed in 1802, and continued as united counties from 1850 until January 1, 1974, when portions of Durham County were amalgamated with adjacent Ontario County to form the Regional Municipality of Durham.