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Pickering Village, a settlement initially known as "Duffins Creek", developed along the stream, in what is now Ajax. The first mill in the new settlement was established in 1810 by Timothy Rogers on the banks of Duffins Creek. At the time of Rogers's arrival, thousands of salmon from Lake Ontario came to the Duffins Creek. By the time of his ...
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]
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.
[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.
An Ajax Public Library card gives access to different online services such as audiobooks, e-books, comics, and graphic novels, digital newspapers and magazines, movies and TV shows, and music. [12] The library is partnered with Hoopla, which free offers access to different media such as audiobooks, ebooks, music and TV shows. [12]
The largest mill along the Carruthers Creek was located on the 3rd Concession Line, near the Audley village. [15] By the 1850s, three small communities existed in the Carruthers Creek watershed: [16] Audley (Brown's Corners) in present-day Ajax, centered on the intersection of present-day Audley Road and Taunton Rd