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In August 1971, Ontario planners came to similar conclusions, stating that a Pickering airport would prevent the creation of two planned towns called Brock and Audley, destroy an area designated as a provincial agricultural and recreational preserve, and "have a major influence on the operation of Toronto International". [48]
The Draper Site is a precontact period (late fifteenth-century) Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on a tributary of West Duffins Creek in present-day Pickering, Ontario, approximately 35 kilometres northeast of Toronto. [1]
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A land acknowledgement or territorial acknowledgement is a formal statement that acknowledges the original Indigenous peoples of the land, spoken at the beginning of public events. The custom of land acknowledgement is a traditional practice that dates back centuries in many Indigenous cultures.
Pickering (2021 population 99,186 [1]) is a city located in Southern Ontario, Canada, immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region.. Beginning in the 1770s, the area was settled by primarily British colonists.
[4] This group of pioneers met all the conditions of land grants and by 1804, they were also recognized as an official meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. The Yonge Street settlement grew into the town of Newmarket. In 1809, Rogers started a second Quaker colony in Pickering. He believed this was his calling in life.
Brougham (/ b r oʊ m / brohm) [1] is a community within the northern part of the City of Pickering, in Durham Region of Ontario, Canada. Some of its lands are affected by plans to build the proposed Pickering Airport. There are concerns because some of its buildings are of architectural significance.
Seaton will be a community in north Pickering in Ontario, Canada.Seaton is bounded by West Duffins Creek to the west, Sideline 16 to the east, Highway 7 to the north, and the CP Rail line to the south; it abuts the communities of Green River, Whitevale, and Brougham.