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Whitby is a town in Durham Region in Ontario, Canada.Whitby is located in Southern Ontario 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of Ajax and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Oshawa, on the north shore of Lake Ontario and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region.
Myrtle Station is a community in the town of Whitby, Ontario, Canada. Myrtle Station is located approximately one kilometre north of the community of Myrtle. In 1884, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) built a rail line between Toronto and Montreal through the area. A railway station was constructed and the community that grew in the vicinity ...
Whitby is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was previously represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as Whitby-Oshawa.The new riding was created through the 2015 Representation Act for the 2018 provincial election, [1] with the district losing some territory to the district of Oshawa to more closely align to the actual town's borders.
Ontario has 52 cities, [1] which together had in 2016 a cumulative population of 9,900,179 and average population of 190,388. [2] The most and least populous are Toronto and Dryden, with 2,794,356 and 7,749 residents, respectively. [2] Ontario's newest city is Richmond Hill, whose council voted to change from a town to a city on March 26, 2019. [3]
Ontario County, 1877 The Township was established in 1792 ( 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 ).
Whitby is a federal electoral district (riding) in Ontario consisting of the entire town of Whitby, Ontario. The boundaries for Whitby were created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and were legally defined in the 2013 representation order. The riding came into existence upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election ...
It is a rural settlement area on the Oak Ridges Moraine, situated on the headwaters of the Lynde Creek watershed and part of Ontario's protected Golden Horseshoe Greenbelt. [2] 1877 Map of Whitby Township, Ontario with a focus on Ashburn and surroundings
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.