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the beginning of Oshawa's Auto industry
In 1908 the McLaughlin Carriage Company began to manufacture Buick automobiles under the McLaughlin-Buick name. This resulted from talks between Col. R. S. McLaughlin and "Billy" Durant (the entrepreneur who had created General Motors in the U.S. around the same time). In 1915 the firm acquired the manufacturing rights to the Chevrolet brand. Within three years his firm and the Chevrolet Motor Car Company of Canada merged, creating General Motors of Canada. Col. R. S.
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Oshawa and the Fur Trade
The area that would become Oshawa began as a transfer point for the fur trade. Beaver and other animal pelts were trapped by local natives and traded with the Coureur des bois (voyagers). Furs were loaded onto canoes by the Mississauga Indians at the Oshawa harbour and transported to the trading posts located to the west at the mouth of the Credit River.
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Whitby history
Whitby Township (now the Town of Whitby) was named after the seaport town of Whitby, Yorkshire, England. In addition to Whitby, Yorkshire, the Town of Whitby is also officially twinned with Longueuil, Québec and Feldkirch, Austria.
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 North Eastern England: York, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Darlington.
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Recycling Durham History
Durham is usually thought of as a growing community with mostly new housing developments and shopping malls , but Durham region has a long history of farming and industry and being on the old Upper Canada travel route of “ the Kings Highway “ which skirted Lake Ontario east to west from Lake Erie to Kingston .
You can find many older houses, and buildings that have a lot history. You just have to look for them , they usually have been re-purposed to restaurants or stores .
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