Whitby Township is a
geographic township
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and former municipality in what was
Ontario County (now
Durham Region
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),
Ontario
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,
Canada
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. It is now part of the
Town of Whitby.
The Township was established in as part of what was then
York County. Whitby Township was one of five townships along Lake Ontario named for towns in northeast
England
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(
York
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,
Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to:
People
* Scarborough (surname)
* Earl of Scarbrough
Places Australia
* Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth
* Scarborough, New South Wales, suburb of Wollongong
* Scarborough, Queensland, su ...
,
Pickering,
Whitby
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and
Darlington
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In the 19th century, Darlington underwen ...
). In 1852, the Township became part of the newly formed
County of Ontario. In 1855, the Town of Whitby was incorporated as a separate municipality in the southern portion of the Township and in 1858, the Township of East Whitby was formed from the eastern portion of the municipality near
Oshawa
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.
Whitby Township was mainly a rural municipality, but contained the communities of
Brooklin Brooklin may refer to
*Brooklin, Ontario, Canada
*Brooklin, California, United States
*Brooklin, Maine, United States
*Brooklin, West Virginia, United States
*Brooklin (São Paulo Metro), Brazil
*Brooklin Novo, or adjacent Brooklin Velho, neighbour ...
,
Ashburn __NOTOC__
Ashburn may refer to:
Places Canada
*Ashburn, Ontario
United States
*Ashburn, Georgia
*Ashburn, Chicago, Illinois, a community area
**Ashburn (Metra), a Metra station serving the area
* Ashburn, Missouri
* Ashburn, Virginia, an unincorpo ...
,
Myrtle and
Myrtle Station.
The Township was amalgamated with Whitby in 1968 to form an expanded Town of Whitby.
See also
*
List of townships in Ontario
This is a list of townships in the Canadian province of Ontario. Townships are listed by census division.
Northern Ontario Northeastern Ontario Algoma District
Historical/Geographic Townships
*Abbott
*Aberdeen Additional
*Abigo
*Abotossaway
* ...
References
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Former municipalities in Ontario
Geographic townships in Ontario
Neighbourhoods in Whitby, Ontario