Welcome to Pickering Village
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N 43° 51.428 W 079° 02.666
17T E 657162 N 4857863
Pickering Village is small historic village inside the boundaries of the larger town of Ajax by the Lake. There are two signs along Kingston Road at the east and west boundaries of Pickering Village.
Waymark Code: WMBK4G
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 05/28/2011
Views: 14
Between 1801 and 1807 a settlement developed here in Pickering Township where the Danforth Road crossed Duffin's Creek. Among the early settlers was Timothy Rogers, a prominent Quaker and colonizer who built a saw and grist-mill in 1809. A post-office was established in 1829 but the hamlet of Duffin's Creek developed slowly. The construction of the Grand Trunk Railway, completed in 1856, and growing agricultural prosperity stimulated the community's development as an important grist-milling and local commercial centre. Pickering Village was established in 1862 and it became a police village in 1900 with about 1,000 inhabitants. In 1953 it was made an incorporated Village and in 1974 amalgamated with the Town of Ajax.
The sign depicts much of this early history of Pickering Village showing some of the earliest buildings including St. Francis de Sales Church(top centre) and the old grist-mill. Duffin`s creek depicted along the bottom of the sign was vital to the creation of the town.
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