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The headwaters of the Duffins Creek are located in the Oak Ridges Moraine area, [20] within the boundaries of Uxbridge, Pickering, Markham, and Whitchurch-Stouffville. The mouth of the stream is located in Ajax. [15] The Duffins Creek drains an area of 283 sq. km., much of which is owned by the government.
Duffins cabin was located on the east side of the Creek, north of Kingston Road. [9] Augustus Jones, who surveyed the area for the Government of Upper Canada in 1791, named the Duffins Creek after him. [6] [8] The municipality that contained the area was known as Edinburgh Township until 1792, when it was renamed to Pickering Township. [11]
Carruthers Creek in eastern part of Ajax. Multiple archaeological sites identified with indigenous peoples are located in the watersheds of the Duffins Creek and the Carruthers Creek, in Ajax and surrounding areas. [1] [2] Projectile points from the Late Paleo-Indian period (10000–7000 BCE) have been discovered in the Duffins Creek watershed. [3]
[3] [4] [5] In 1760, French Sulpician missionaries from Ganatsekwyagon reached the Duffins Creek area, but did not settle there. [6] After the British conquest of New France in 1760, the area became part of the Pickering Township. Mike Duffin, an Irish fur trader, is the earliest known European to have settled in the area, in the 1770s. [7]
Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant is on the north shore of Lake Ontario in the City of Pickering. It operates as a partnership between the Regional Municipality of York and the Regional Municipality of Durham. The Plant is capable of treating 630 million litres of wastewater each day and serves the communities of York Region, the Town ...
Several social groups and clubs existed in Ajax. These included the Ajax Horticultural Society, which held its first garden contest in 1943. Sponsored by WHL, the prize was a month's rent. The Ajax Kinsmen Club, which existed from 21 December 1943 to mid-1945, had the highest membership of any Canadian Kinsmen club to that date. [40]
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The largest mill along the Carruthers Creek was located on the 3rd Concession Line, near the Audley village. [15] By the 1850s, three small communities existed in the Carruthers Creek watershed: [16] Audley (Brown's Corners) in present-day Ajax, centered on the intersection of present-day Audley Road and Taunton Rd