Township of Pickering

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The Township of Pickering was a historic rural municipality in what is now the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada, that developed along the shores of Lake Ontario east of Toronto.

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Label Occurrences
Township of Pickering canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf former township
historic municipality
borderedBy Lake Ontario NERFINISHED
Township of Scarborough NERFINISHED
Township of Uxbridge NERFINISHED
Township of Whitby NERFINISHED
coastlineFeature Lake Ontario shoreline
country Canada
dissolvedInto Town of Ajax NERFINISHED
Town of Pickering NERFINISHED
governedBy township council
hasMunicipalSeat Pickering Village NERFINISHED
hasSettlement Altona NERFINISHED
Balsam NERFINISHED
Brock Road NERFINISHED
Cherrywood NERFINISHED
Claremont NERFINISHED
Dunbarton NERFINISHED
Greenwood NERFINISHED
Pickering Village NERFINISHED
Rouge Hill area NERFINISHED
Whitevale NERFINISHED
historicalEra 19th century Ontario municipal system
historicalSignificance early agricultural township east of Toronto
locatedEastOf Toronto NERFINISHED
locatedIn Canada West NERFINISHED
Durham Region NERFINISHED
Ontario
Province of Ontario NERFINISHED
Regional Municipality of Durham NERFINISHED
locatedInTime before creation of Durham Region
locatedOn north shore of Lake Ontario
namedAfter Pickering, North Yorkshire, England NERFINISHED
partOf Greater Toronto hinterland
Ontario County, Ontario NERFINISHED
York County, Ontario NERFINISHED
primaryEconomicActivity agriculture
mixed farming
regionType rural municipality
settledBy British immigrants
Irish immigrants
Scottish immigrants
United Empire Loyalists NERFINISHED
status defunct municipality
successor City of Pickering NERFINISHED
Town of Ajax NERFINISHED
transportationRoute Canadian National Railway mainline NERFINISHED
Grand Trunk Railway NERFINISHED
Kingston Road NERFINISHED

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York County, Ontario originallyIncluded Township of Pickering