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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 .
The town of Ajax, Ontario in Canada evolved out of the Defence Industries Limited Pickering Works munitions plant built during the World War II, but its history begins much earlier. The indigenous peoples were active in the watersheds of the Duffins Creek and the Carruthers Creek since the Archaic period (7000–1000 BCE), although they did not ...
Pickering Village is a former municipality and now a neighbourhood in the town of Ajax, within the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada. The Pickering Village derives its name from the former Pickering Township, which included the present-day town of Ajax and the city of Pickering. A small portion of the original settlement is now part of the ...
The Ajax Archives was established by town council in 2010. In 2022, the management of the archives was transferred from the Town of Ajax to the Ajax Public Library. [ 1 ] The archives contain a collection of municipal records of permanent value and include photos, documents, and books.
Ajax the Lesser, another name for Arex, one of the Eternals from Marvel Comics; Ajax, a member of the Pantheon appearing in Marvel Comics; Ajax (Francis Freeman), a fictional supervillain first appearing in Deadpool #14; Martian Manhunter, a DC Comics superhero called Ajax in Brazil and Portugal; Ajax, a Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 operative
Audley, known as Brown's Corners until 1857, was an unincorporated village in the Pickering Township of Ontario, Canada. In the mid-19th century, it emerged as a stopover for farmers traveling to the Whitby port, and gradually evolved into a village.
Pickering Beach is a neighbourhood in the Ajax town of Ontario, Canada. Located on Lake Ontario east of Toronto , it was once an important cottage destination for Toronto's upper class. In 1923, Toronto land developer James Tuckett bought an already existing proposed land development along the lakeshore in the Pickering Township to develop a ...
Ajax—Pickering was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that had been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2011 by Conservative MP Chris Alexander. Its population in 2001 was 100,215. The district included the town of Ajax and the northern part of the city of Pickering in the eastern suburbs