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The headwaters of the Duffins Creek are located in the Oak Ridges Moraine area, [20] within the boundaries of Uxbridge, Pickering, Markham, and Whitchurch-Stouffville. The mouth of the stream is located in Ajax. [15] The Duffins Creek drains an area of 283 sq. km., much of which is owned by the government.
Carruthers Creek in eastern part of Ajax. Multiple archaeological sites identified with indigenous peoples are located in the watersheds of the Duffins Creek and the Carruthers Creek, in Ajax and surrounding areas. [1] [2] Projectile points from the Late Paleo-Indian period (10000–7000 BCE) have been discovered in the Duffins Creek watershed. [3]
In 1760, French missionaries from Ganatsekwyagon reached the Duffins Creek, but did not create any settlement there. [9] Mike Duffin (died c. 1791 [10]), a fur trader of Irish descent, was the earliest European to settle in the area that later came to be known as Pickering Village. A bachelor, he arrived in the area in the 1770s.
[3] [4] [5] In 1760, French Sulpician missionaries from Ganatsekwyagon reached the Duffins Creek area, but did not settle there. [6] After the British conquest of New France in 1760, the area became part of the Pickering Township. Mike Duffin, an Irish fur trader, is the earliest known European to have settled in the area, in the 1770s. [7]
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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] The site is found in a wooded area on existing farmland and may be reached by walking from the end of North Road.
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