Whitby is a

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in Durham Region in

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, Canada. Whitby is located in

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east of

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and west of

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, on the north shore of

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and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region. It had a population of 138,501 at the 2021 census. It is approximately east of

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, and it is known as a commuter

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in the Durham Region, a part of the

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. While the southern portion of Whitby is predominantly urban and an economic hub, the northern part of the municipality is more rural and includes the communities of Ashburn, Brooklin, Myrtle, Myrtle Station, and Macedonian Village.

History

Whitby Township (now the Town of Whitby) was named after the seaport town of Whitby, Yorkshire, England. When the township was originally surveyed in 1792, the surveyor, from the northern part of England, named the townships east of Toronto after towns in the historic

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York York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a Yor ...

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, Pickering,

Whitby Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is on the Yorkshire Coast at the mouth of the River Esk, North Yorkshire, River Esk and has a maritime, mineral and tourist economy. From the Middle Ages, Whitby ...

and

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. The original name of "Whitby" is Danish, dating from about 867 AD when the Danes invaded Britain. It is a contraction of "Whitteby", meaning "White Village". The allusion may be to the white lighthouse on the pier at Whitby, Yorkshire, and also at Whitby, Ontario. Although settlement dates back to 1800, it was not until 1836 that a downtown business centre was established by Whitby's founder Peter Perry. Whitby's chief asset was its fine natural harbour on Lake Ontario, from which grain from the farmland to the north was first shipped in 1833. In the 1840s, a road was built from Whitby Harbour to

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and

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, to bring trade and settlement through the harbour to and from the rich hinterland to the north. The Town of Whitby was chosen as the seat of government for the newly formed County of Ontario in 1852, and incorporated in 1855. The remainder of Whitby Township remained a separate municipality, although the eastern half surrounding Oshawa was incorporated as the new Township of East Whitby in 1857. In the 1870s, a railway, the " Port Whitby and Port Perry Railway", was constructed from Whitby harbour to

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, and later extended to Lindsay as the "Whitby, Port Perry and Lindsay Railway". Whitby is also the site of

Trafalgar Castle School Trafalgar Castle School in Whitby, Ontario is an internationally known, independent day and boarding school for girls and young women in grades 4 through 12. Boarding at the school begins in grade 7. Founded in 1874 as "Ontario Ladies' College", ...

, a private girls' school founded in 1874. The building, constructed as an Elizabethan-style castle in 1859–62 as a private residence for the Sheriff of Ontario County, is a significant architectural landmark and Whitby's only provincial historic site marked with a plaque. The school celebrated its 125th anniversary in 1999. During the

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, Whitby was the location of Camp X, a secret spy training facility established by

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, the "Man Called Intrepid". Although the buildings have since been demolished, a monument was unveiled on the site of Camp X in 1984 by Ontario's

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John Black Aird. Following the war, Soviet dissenter

Igor Gouzenko Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko (; ; January 26, 1919 – June 25, 1982) was a cipher clerk for the Soviet embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, and a lieutenant of the Soviet Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU). He defected on September 5, 1945, th ...

was taken to the facility with his wife to live in secretive protective custody after fleeing

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Amalgamation

In 1968, the Town of Whitby and Township of Whitby amalgamated to form the current municipality. Planning for the construction of a town hall intended to centralize municipal staff working in satellite offices began in 1970 under mayor Des Newman. Construction began on the

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designed building in 1975; it was opened by Mayor Jim Gartshore on January 8, 1977. Municipal boundaries were not changed during the 1974 formation of the

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(or Durham Region as locals call it), and remain to this day. Today, Whitby is the seat of government in Durham Region.

Geography

Whitby borders Ajax to the west, Pickering to the northwest, the Township of Scugog to the north, and Oshawa to the east. Since at least the mid-1990s, the development of subdivisions to accommodate population growth has proceeded in a mostly northward direction, including development in Brooklin. To the south is

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Whitby had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In 2021, 19.1% of the population was under 15 years of age, and 14.8% was 65 years and over. The median age in Whitby was 40 years. The median total income of households in 2020 for Whitby was $123,000.

Religion

Saint Arsenije Sremac Serbian Orthodox Church photo by Djuradj Vujcic

In 2021, 54.3% of the population identified as

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, with

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(25.7%) making up the largest denomination, followed by

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(4.9%),

United Church A united church, also called a uniting church, is a denomination formed from the merger or other form of church union of two or more different Protestantism, Protestant Christian denominations, a number of which come from separate and distinc ...

(4.2%), Orthodox (2.7%), and other denominations. 31.6% of the population reported no religious affiliation. Others identified as

Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

(6.7%),

Hindu Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...

(5.4%), and with other religions.

Language

The 2021 census found English to be the

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of 75.5% of the population. This was followed by

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(1.7%),

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(1.6%),

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

(1.5%), French (1.3%), Spanish (1.1%),

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(1.0%), Tagalog (0.9%),

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(0.8%),

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(0.7%),

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(0.7%),

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(0.7%), and Portuguese (0.6%). Of the official languages, 98.7% of the population reported knowing English and 8.4% French.

Ethnicity

As per the 2021 census, the most common ethnic or cultural origins in Whitby are English (19.9%), Irish (17.1%), Scottish (16.7%), Canadian (13.7%), Italian (6.4%), German (6.2%), Indian (6.0%), French (5.4%), British Isles (4.8%), Chinese (4.3%), Jamaican (3.5%), Dutch (3.4%), and Polish (3.0%). Indigenous people made up 1.5% of the population, mostly

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(0.8%) and

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(0.7%). Ethnocultural backgrounds in the town included European (63.1%),

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(12.0%),

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(9.1%), Chinese (3.6%), Filipino (2.6%),

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(1.6%),

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(1.2%),

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(1.0%), and

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n (0.5%). *Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.

Local government

The Town's Council includes the Mayor, four Regional Councillors and four Town Councillors elected on the basis of one per ward. They sit on both the Town and Durham Regional Councils, as does the mayor. The members elected as of the 2022 municipal election are:

Mayor

*Elizabeth Roy

Regional councillors

*Rhonda Mulcahy *Chris Leahy *Steve Yamada *Maleeha Shahid

Town councillors

*North Ward 1: Steve Lee *West Ward 2: Matt Cardwell *Centre Ward 3: Niki Lundquist *East Ward 4: Victoria Bozinovski

Regional chair

*John Henry Whitby is also home to the headquarters buildings of Durham Region and the Durham District School Board.

Emergency services

Whitby is policed by the Durham Regional Police's Central West Division. There is also a detachment of the

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located in Town, mainly to patrol area provincial highways within Durham Region. Whitby Fire & Emergency Services provides firefighting services from five fire stations and ambulance/emergency medical services are provided by Durham Region EMS at the Whitby Paramedic Station (also as EMS Headquarters).

Economy

Many residents commute to work in other Greater Toronto Area communities. Whitby itself is home to a steel mill operated by Gerdau Ameristeel, a retail support centre operated by

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, and a major Liquor Control Board of Ontario warehouse. Other companies present in Whitby include pharmaceutical manufacturer Patheon, Lear Corporation, Automodular Assemblies,

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, and several others.

Education

Public education in Whitby is provided via the Durham District School Board, which also has its headquarters in Whitby. There are twenty-four elementary schools and five secondary schools: Anderson Collegiate Vocational Institute, Brooklin High School, Donald A Wilson Secondary School, Henry Street High School and

Sinclair Secondary School Sinclair Secondary School is located in Whitby, Ontario and opened in 1994. Serving Special Education students, the school is recognized for its strong academic reputation and remains the highest ranked school in the Durham Region, according to t ...

. The Durham Catholic District School Board oversees public Catholic education in Durham Region. There are twelve Catholic elementary schools and two secondary schools- Father Leo J. Austin Catholic Secondary School and All Saints Catholic Secondary School. Full French-language education is provided by the

Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir (also referred to as Csc MonAvenir) is a French-language Catholic school board that manages elementary and secondary French schools in South-Central Ontario. The school board operates 47 elementary schools, 12 ...

. There is one elementary school in Whitby, École élémentaire catholique Jean-Paul II (JK-grade 6), as well as a high school, École secondaire catholique St-Charles Garnier (grades 7-12) which services all of Durham Region. As noted above, Whitby is home to

, an independent school for women that offers grades 4 through 12 in a university preparatory programme. Built in 1859 by the Sheriff of Ontario County, Nelson Gilbert "Iron" Reynolds, Trafalgar Castle remains a unique Canadian treasure. The school opened its doors in 1874 and was called "Ontario Ladies' College" until 1979 when the name was changed to "Trafalgar Castle School". There are also a number of

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schools offering programmes for early elementary grades. Whitby is also the site of the Skills Training Centre of

Durham College Durham College is a public college in Ontario, Canada, with two main campuses in Oshawa and Whitby. Durham College offers over 145+ academic programs, including six bachelor degrees and eleven apprenticeship programs, to around 13,700 full-ti ...

. The main campus of the college is located in Oshawa, as is

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. Canada Christian College is located in Whitby as well.

Healthcare

Although Whitby is one of the 100 largest cities/towns in Canada, it lacks a full-service hospital. The town was served by the Whitby General Hospital until 1998, when Durham hospitals were amalgamated by the Lakeridge Health Corporation, Under the amalgamated system, the hospital became Lakeridge Health Whitby and is a specialized health centre, with the closest full-service hospitals being Lakeridge Health Oshawa, Lakeridge Health Ajax and Pickering and Lakeridge Health Port Perry. The Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences is located on the lakefront. It was originally called the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, then Whitby Mental Health Centre.

Transportation

Ontario Highway 401 King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one, is a Controlled-access highway, controlled-access 400-series hig ...

runs through the south end of Whitby, with interchanges at Brock Street and Thickson Road.

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was opened in Whitby in 2016. The toll highway passes between Brooklin and the urban portion of the town. Ontario Highway 412, connecting the 401 with the 407, also opened to traffic in the same year. The highway is a north–south route located just east of the Whitby-Ajax boundary and became toll-free on April 22, 2022. The southern terminus of Highway 12 is also located in Whitby. It originally extended from Highway 401 northward as part of Brock Street, but this portion was downloaded to Durham Region in 1997. The southern terminus is now located just south of Brooklin at Highway 407. Finally, Highway 7 runs east–west between Brooklin and the City of Pickering. At Brooklin, the road changes to a north–south alignment and is

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ed with Highway 12 to the northern boundary of the Town. Four railways pass through Whitby. The Toronto-Montreal corridor main lines of the

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and

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both pass east–west through the south end of town. A second CP line running from Toronto to Havelock also passes through the northern part of Whitby.

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trains travel through Whitby, but the nearest station is in Oshawa. Finally,

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provides frequent service via its

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, which (in Whitby) runs parallel to the CN tracks. Whitby GO Station is located in town. Local transit services are provided by the region-wide Durham Region Transit. Prior to the Regional service, the Town provided its own service. GO Transit buses also connect Whitby with Durham Region (including

and Beaverton to the north) and areas further afield. Whitby Harbour, an important factor in the development of the Town, is now home to a 420-berth recreational marina. The closest international airport is

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, located to the west in

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Media

Until publication ceased on September 15, 2023, Whitby was served by the ''Whitby This Week'' newspaper, part of the Metroland Media Group. Several other papers have been published in the town over the years, including the Whitby Free Press, which ran from 1971 to 1996. Other GTA media outlets serve the area, but since September 2023 there have been no newspapers serving Whitby. In North Whitby, the '' Brooklin Town Crier'' serves approximately 8,000 residents every two weeks. The ''Brooklin Town Crier'' was established in 2000 by Rhonda Mulcahy, who has since been elected Regional Councillor for Whitby. The paper consists primarily of resident contributions, with occasion updates on local and regional politics from Mulcahy.

Arts

*Durham Council for the Arts *Whitby Brass Band *Whitby Courthouse Theatre *Station Gallery

Notable places

* Camp X * Whitby Public Library *Lynde House Museum *

*Iroquois Park Sports Centre

Sports

Whitby's most famous sporting team is the Whitby Dunlops, a celebrated

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squad that captured the world championship in 1958 at

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. This team featured long-time president of the

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, Harry Sinden and former mayor of Whitby, Bob Attersley. The Dunlops were revived in 2004 as part of the Eastern Ontario Senior Hockey League. The Whitby Yacht Club, which offers racing, cruising, social, and sail training programs on Whitby Harbour overlooking the

, was founded in 1966.

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is also a prominent sport in Whitby. The Brooklin Redmen Senior A lacrosse club is one of the most successful in Canadian sporting history, while the Junior A Whitby Warriors have been awarded the

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four times since 1984. Whitby is also home to the ''Iroquois Park Sports Centre'', one of the largest minor sports centres in North America. The facility includes six icepads, a swimming pool named for local Olympian Anne Ottenbrite, six tennis courts, five ball diamonds, three batting cages, a

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, a soccer pitch, ''The Sports Garden Cafe'' restaurant and the Whitby Sports Hall of Fame. Whitby also developed the McKinney Sports complex which boasts three ice pads, two tennis courts and a

, and Luther Vipond Arena in Brooklin, with one ice pad. These three sport complexes hold many sporting events. In 2008, the OJHL relocated a team to Whitby to play out of the Iroquois Complex, known as the Whitby Fury.

Notable people

* Lorne Edgar Campbell, outlaw biker

Athletics

* Dyshawn Pierre, Professional basketball player, playing for Fenerbahçe S.K. (basketball) in the Turkish

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* David Ayres, former NHL hockey goalie and Zamboni driver * Drake Caggiula, NHL hockey player for the

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* Adam Foote, former NHL player for Colorado Avalanche, Stanley Cup winner, Olympic Gold Medalist and former member of ''Team Canada'' * Zack Greer, plays for the Las Vegas Desert Dogs of the NLL. * Jay Harrison, former NHL hockey player * John LaFontaine, member of the

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of the NLL * James Logan, former hockey player for the Berlin Dutchmen * Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, bronze medallist in the hurdles at the

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* Teri MacDonald (born 1963), racing driver * Andrew Martin (1975–2009),

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wrestler, best known by his ring name, "Test" * Lori Melien, Olympic Bronze Medallist swimmer * Aaron Milton (born 1992), Canadian football player * James Neal, NHL hockey player, currently an Unrestricted Free Agent. * Joe Nieuwendyk, former NHL hockey player, Stanley Cup winner, Olympic Gold Medalist and former member of ''Team Canada'', Hockey Hall of Fame Inductee (2011) * Anne Ottenbrite, Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer * J. F. Paxton (1857–1936), Canadian ice hockey administrator * Cole Perfetti, NHL hockey player for the

Winnipeg Jets The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. The Jets compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division (NHL), Central Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. The te ...

Keith Primeau Keith David Primeau (born November 24, 1971) is a Canadian businessman and ice hockey coach. He is a former professional ice hockey centre who played 15 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers, C ...

, former NHL hockey player * Wayne Primeau, former NHL hockey player * Gavin Prout, National Lacrosse League player with

Colorado Mammoth The Colorado Mammoth are an American professional box lacrosse team based in Denver, Colorado, that competes in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The team has played its home games at Ball Arena since the 2003 season. They are owned by Stan ...

* Paul Ranger, former NHL hockey player * Liam Reddox, former NHL hockey player * Gary Roberts, former NHL player * O. J. Santiago, NFL football player * Tyler Seguin, NHL hockey player for the

Dallas Stars The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas. The Stars compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central Division (NHL), Central Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference. The Stars ...

* Kailen Sheridan, pro soccer player, Olympian, alternate goalkeeper of the Rio 2016 team * Kristina Vaculik, member of the

London 2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

Olympic artistic gymnastics team, who helped Canada place fifth in the team finals * Kelita Zupancic, Judoka and Olympian, member of the

Canadian Olympic Judo team also World Ranked No. 1 in 2013

Entertainment

* Aaron Badgley, music journalist and radio host * Kat Burns and Kyle Donnelly of the band Forest City Lovers * Chuck Coles, singer/songwriter for the Organ Thieves, southern and soul-influenced experimental hard rock band * A. J. Cook, actress * Neil Crone, actor and writer for local newspaper, stars on kid's television show Really Me *

Dave Devall David Devall (born 1931) is a Canadian retired broadcaster and meteorologist. He served as the chief forecaster at CFTO-TV in Toronto for more than 48 years beginning in 1961, and was recognized as having had the "longest career as a weather f ...

, long-time weather reporter for CFTO-TV * Hello Beautiful, band * May Irwin, businesswoman, pioneer film actress, singer and star of

vaudeville Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France in the middle of the 19th century. A ''vaudeville'' was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a drama ...

, participant in first screen kiss in cinematic history in

Thomas Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February11, 1847October18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, ...

's 1896 film '' The Kiss' * K-os, rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer * Leslie McFarlane, writer of the Hardy Boys novels * Andrea Muizelaar, winner of '' Canada's Next Top Model'' * Priyanka, winner of the first season of Canada's Drag Race * Protest The Hero, progressive metal band * J. Torres, comic book writer

Politics

* Sid Ryan, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour * John Wilson Bengough, political cartoonist * Jim Flaherty, late member of the

House of Commons of Canada The House of Commons of Canada () is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Monarchy of Canada#Parliament (King-in-Parliament), Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of Ca ...

and

Minister of Finance A ministry of finance is a ministry or other government agency in charge of government finance, fiscal policy, and financial regulation. It is headed by a finance minister, an executive or cabinet position . A ministry of finance's portfolio ...

* Hamar Greenwood, Chief Secretary for Ireland 1920–1922 * Thomas Paxton, Ontario politician, businessman, sheriff

Sister cities

Feldkirch, Vorarlberg Feldkirch () is a city rights, town in the western Austrian States of Austria, state of Vorarlberg, bordering on Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is the administrative centre of the Feldkirch (district), Feldkirch district. After Dornbirn, it i ...

, Austria *

Longueuil Longueuil () is a city in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Montérégie, Montérégie administrative region and the central city of the urban agglomeration of Longueuil. It sits on the South Shore (Montreal), south shore o ...

, Canada *

, United Kingdom

Notes

References

*Ed McPherson 'The Whitby Yacht Club: 25 years in the making' Whitby, Ont. : Whitby Yacht Club, c1992.

External links

* {{Authority control Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario Populated places on Lake Ontario in Canada Towns in Ontario