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Sunderland is a community located approximately 100 km (62 mi) northeast of Toronto, Ontario, Canada in Brock Township, in the Regional Municipality of Durham.This is currently one of the very few populated areas of the Greater Toronto Area where the Trans-Canada Highway passes near, thus also making this the closest point from the highway to the City of Toronto at 100 km (62 mi) apart.
Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial was established to honor those who fought in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812, and to celebrate the long-lasting peace among Britain, Canada and the U.S. The Memorial column, rising over Lake Erie, is situated five miles from the US-Canadian border.
Flatiron Building (Akron, Ohio) 1907 built Akron, Ohio [81] H.A. Higgins Building, aka Flatiron Building (Columbus, Ohio) 1914 built 1979 NRHP 1984 Columbus Register of Historic Places 129 E. Nationwide Blvd. Columbus, Ohio
By 1840 the town had 76 shipyards and between 1820 and 1850 the number of ships being built on the Wear increased fivefold. From 1846 to 1854 almost a third of the UK's ships were built in Sunderland, and in 1850 the Sunderland Herald proclaimed the town to be the greatest shipbuilding port in the world. [70]
Sunderland: Lake Ontario: Steamship: Canada Shipping Co. Ltd. [5] [27] [28] 10 March United Kingdom: Messrs. Camper & Nicholson Gosport: Merganser: Steam trawler: For Hugh Leybourne Popham. [29] 10 March United Kingdom: Boolds, Sharer & Co Sunderland: Pius IX: Steamship: For Pinillos, Saenz & Compañia. [5] [30] [28] 10 March United Kingdom ...
The U.S.-built Ontario (110 feet, 34 m), launched in the spring of 1817 at Sacketts Harbor, New York, began its regular service in April 1817 before Frontenac made its first trip to the head of the lake on June 5. [1] The first steamboat on the upper Great Lakes was the passenger-carrying Walk-in-the-water, built in 1818 to navigate Lake Erie ...
It forms the Central Ontario Route of the Trans-Canada Highway system from north of Sunderland (Highway 7) to Coldwater (Highway 400). Highway 12 connects several small towns along its 146 km (91 mi) route, and bypasses a short distance from many others.
1634 – Bishop Morton's Charter created Sunderland's first Mayor and Corporation. [1] West View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland. 1698 – Formation of Sunderland Company of Glassmakers; 1669 – Letters patent permitted the erection of a pier and lighthouse. [1] 1719 – Sunderland Parish's Holy Trinity Church opened