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Durham considers itself a hockey town, and for the most part it is true. Hockey is the most popular pastime and normally draws over 250 children and teens into its Minor Hockey system. Durham has won a number of All-Ontario Championships. The town's parent club under minor hockey guidelines is the Grey-Bruce Highlanders AAA Hockey Team.
Ontario Malleable Iron Company (OMIC) was an iron foundry established in Oshawa, Ontario by brothers John Cowan and William Cowan. The factory was in operation from 1872 until closure in 1977. The factory was in operation from 1872 until closure in 1977.
Ontario Today launched in 1997 as a province-wide two-hour programme produced out of CBC Ottawa, replacing Radio Noon, which was the umbrella name of five different midday programmes by CBC Radio stations in Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor, Sudbury, and Thunder Bay. [2]
Durham County (area 376,397 acres (1,523 km 2)) is an historic county in Ontario, Canada. It was named for the English County Durham and city of Durham . It was created in 1792 but was later merged Northumberland County to form the United Counties of Northumberland and Durham .
The United Counties of Northumberland and Durham was a historic county in the Canadian province of Ontario.The two counties were originally combined in the District of Newcastle formed in 1802, and continued as united counties from 1850 until January 1, 1974, when portions of Durham County were amalgamated with adjacent Ontario County to form the Regional Municipality of Durham.
Jun. 15—Tom and Kay Mellert missed their chance nearly 30 years ago to salvage a piece of Mellert family history. It was a hunk of metal, part of the loading dock of a prominent downtown Reading ...
June 22 – A Grand Trunk Railway express passenger train from Toronto to Montreal derails near Shannonville, Ontario, killing 34. June 25 – Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Earl of Dufferin becomes Governor General of Canada. July 20 – October 12: In the 1872 federal election Sir John A. Macdonald's Conservatives are re-elected.
Originally part of the original Brock Township, [2] Cannington was first settled in 1833. It was first known as McCaskill's Mills after a local mill-owning family. In 1849, a post office was opened, at which point the settlement was renamed Cannington after former British foreign secretary and Prime Minister George Canning (1770–1827).