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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 .
A worker tightens nose plugs of 500-pound bombs at DIL's Pickering Works plant in Ajax. Defence Industries Limited (DIL) was a subsidiary of Canadian Industries Limited (C-I-L), founded in 1939 to manufacture munitions for use in World War II. The company operated in number of locations in Canada, in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and Manitoba.
Farms and owners of present-day Ajax in 1939, before the expropriation. On 10 September 1939, Canada entered the World War II, declaring war on Germany. [1] Because of its distance from the war theatre in Europe, Canada was an ideal location for producing munitions for the Allied forces. [2]
Shortly after Canada entered the World War II in 1939, the Government of Canada built a shell-filling and assembly plant on expropriated farmland in what is now southern part of Ajax. The 2,846 acre site was bounded by Duffins Creek in the west, Pickering Beach Road in the east, a line running just north of and parallel to Highway 401 in the ...
The Ajax Division was the University of Toronto's campus in Ajax, an unincorporated community (now a town) within the Pickering Township of Ontario, Canada. It was located at the site of the defunct Defence Industries Limited Pickering Works munitions plant, which was leased by the federal government to the university for a nominal rent.
An Ajax Public Library card gives access to different online services such as audiobooks, e-books, comics, and graphic novels, digital newspapers and magazines, movies and TV shows, and music. [ 12 ] The library is partnered with Hoopla , which free offers access to different media such as audiobooks, ebooks, music and TV shows.
Canadian Industries Limited, also known as C-I-L, is a Canadian chemicals manufacturer. Products include paints, fertilizers and pesticides, and explosives.It was formed in 1910 by the merger of five Canadian explosives companies.
The code generated by RJS was usually loaded using Ajax, e.g. by using Ajax-enabled helper methods Ruby on Rails provides, such as the link_to_remote helper. It was replaced by jQuery as of Rails 3.1 [8] Many of the Ruby on Rails Ajax-enabled helper methods used to work by using Prototype to perform an Ajax request in older versions of Rails.