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Whitby (2004 population 110,000)
is a town located east of Toronto on the north shore of Lake
Ontario, and is the seat of Durham Region, Ontario, Canada.
The Town of Whitby was incorporated
in 1855, three years after it was chosen as the seat of government
for the new County of 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 Lake Simcoe
and Georgian Bay to bring trade through the harbour to and
from the rich hinterland to the north. In the 1870s a railway
was constructed to Port Perry and Lindsay from Whitby Harbour.
Whitby is also the site of
Trafalgar Castle School, 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 Second World War,
Whitby was the location of Camp X, a secret spy training facility
established by Sir William Stephenson, 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
Lieutenant-Governor John Black Aird.
Whitby's most famous sporting
team is the Whitby Dunlops, a celebrated ice hockey squad
that captured the world championship in 1958 at Oslo, Norway.
This team featured long-time president of the Boston Bruins,
Harry Sinden.
Today, Whitby is the seat
of government in Durham Region, and the regional government
is the town's largest employer. Also located in the town is
the Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, a large mental health centre.
It is commonly considered
part of the Greater Toronto Area, though it technically belongs
to the Oshawa Metropolitan Area. As is the case with Oshawa,
several major manufacturing businesses are located in Whitby.
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 on England's northeastern
coast: York, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Darlington.
The name "Whitby" is Danish, dating from about 867
CE 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.
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