Rural Routes Ontario - City of Oshawa (Lower Tier Durham)

47 Simcoe St. S.
Oshawa, Ontario
L1H 4G4

Ontario Tourism Region : York, Durham and Hills of Headwaters

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Pop. 131,952. City in the Reg. Mun. of Durham, on L. Ontario at the mouth of Os haw a Cr., Hwy 401 and C. Rd. 2, 51 km E of Toronto.
The first settler arrived in 1791. After Edward Skea opened a store in 1835, the place became known as Skea's Corners. The first dock was built in 1840. When the post office was established in 1842 a meeting was held to determine a name.
Several First Nations Peoples from L. Scugog were in town trading their furs and attended the meeting. They suggested the name Oshawa, which means 'where the canoe is exchanged for the trail.'
As the community grew it gradually absorbed surrounding settlements including Gibbs Mills, Skea's Corners, Kedron, Cedarvale, Oshawa Port, Port Oshawa, Oshawa Junction, and Cedar Brae.
In 1878, Robert McLaughlin and his two sons moved their carriage company from nearby Enniskillen to Oshawa, expanding it into the largest carriage works in the British Empire.
When the factory burned in 1899, the Town of Oshawa gave the company an interest-free loan of $50,000 because more than 600 residents were employed by the carriage works.
As the motor car became popular, the McLaughlins moved with the times, producing their fIrst McLaughlin-Buick motor car in 1907. The company evolved as General Motors of Canada Ltd. and Oshawa acquired the nickname 'The Motor City:'
Visitors come to Oshawa today to see Parkwood (the estate of the late Col. McLaughlin), the Canadian Automotive Museum, and Winfields Farm, one of Canada's premier stud farms.
Oshawa native Gordon D. Conant (1885-1953) was Ontario's 12th premier, serving 1942-43.

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Off the beaten track:	Harmony, Oshawa area, 2km Cedar Dale, 3km Thorton Woods, 3km North Oshawa, 4km Lakeview Park, Oshawa area, 5km Taunton, 5km Mitchell's Corners, 7km Port Whitby, 8km Darlington Station, 8km West Lynde, 9km Solina, 10km Enfield, 13km Mount Carmel, Oshawa area, 14km Maple Grove, Bowmanville area, 11km Raglan, Oshawa area, 14km Salem, Bowmanville area, 13km Gaud Corners, 12km	Myrtle, 15km Audley, 12km Pickering Beach, 14km Shirley, 18km Coronation Gardens, 14km Myrtle Station, 16km Burketon Station, 18km Purple Hill, Oshawa area, 19km Kinsale, 14km Prospect, Oshawa area, 18km Tyrone, 17km Port Darlington, 16km Pickering Village, 16km Squires Beach, 18km Dagmar, 18km Prince Albert, 22km Blackstock, 23km	Riverside, Ajax area, 17km Manchester, 22km Mount Zion, Ajax, 18km Balsam, 19km Port Perry, 24km Port View Beach, 25km Deckers Hill, 18km Glen Grove, 19km Brock Road, 19km Highland Beach, 25km Gerrow's Beach, 25km Fairport, 20km Cadmus, 25km Utica, 23km Liverpool, 20km Leskard, 21km
Nearby Lakes:	Samac Lake, 5km Mill Pond, 12km Chalk Lake, 20km Brown Lake, 25km Fallis Pond, 27km Lake Scugog, 30km Brookdale Pond, 28km Whitevale Pond, 25km Secord's Pond, 29km Glasgow Pond, 30km McKinnon Pond, 36km Wagner Lake, 39km Widdifield Pond, 36km Siloam Pond, 35km Lazy Lake, 35km Staley Lake, 35km Windsor Lake, 36km	Shadow Lake, 36km Musselman Lake, 36km Mud Lake, 43km Toogood Pond, 37km Joseph's Lake, 48km Franklin Pond, 44km Goose Lake, 58km Best's Pond, 51km Preston Lake, 43km Simeon Lake, 43km van Nostrand Lake, 44km Haynes Lake, 45km St. George Lake, 46km Wilcox Lake, 47km Dike Pond, 49km Sturgeon Lake, 64km Bond Lake, 48km	Long Pond, 52km Lighthouse Pond, 53km Philips Lake, 49km Emily Lake, 65km Thompson Lake, 50km Lily Lake, 60km Cameron Lake, 73km Grenadier Pond, 57km West Pond, 57km Lake Seneca, 54km Chemong Lake, 66km Little Lake, 62km Mitchell Lake, 75km Balsam Lake, 76km Two Mile Pond, 74km Mary Lake, 56km

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