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Pickering
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city in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada
OverviewAI-generated
Pickering is a city in the Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada. It shares borders with Ajax, Toronto, Markham, and Whitchurch–Stouffville. The city is situated near Lake Ontario and has an area of 231.59 square units. Its elevation above sea level is listed as 217 meters in one source and 214 meters in another.
The population of Pickering is 91,771. The city was established in 1811. It uses the postal code range 33400–33499 and operates in the America/Toronto timezone. Highway 407, a motorway, runs through the city.
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Place details
- Locality
- Pickering
- Region
- Ontario
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 91,771
- Timezone
- America/Toronto
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- Canada
- Province
- Ontario
- Region
- Durham ( York County 1811–1852 and Ontario County 1852–1974)
- Established
- 1811 (township), 1974 (town), 2000 (city)
- Mayor
- Kevin Ashe
- Governing body
- Pickering City Council
- Mp
- Juanita Nathan ( Pickering—Uxbridge )
- Mpp
- Peter Bethlenfalvy ( Pickering—Uxbridge )
- Total
- 231.59 km (89.42 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 83.8 m (275 ft)
- Density
- 383.1/km (992/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (Eastern (EDT))
- Forward sortation area
- L1V to L1Y
- Area codes
- 905, 289, 365, and 742
- Highways
- Highway 401 / Highway 407 Highway 7
- Website
- pickering.ca
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Pickering (2021 population 99,186) is a city located in Southern Ontario, Canada, immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region. It is named after the town of Pickering, in North Yorkshire.
Beginning in the 1770s, the area was settled by primarily British colonists. An increase in population occurred after the American Revolutionary War, when the Crown resettled Loyalists and encouraged new immigration. Many of the smaller rural communities have been preserved and function as provincially significant historic sites and museums. The city also includes the Pickering Casino Resort, a multi-billion-dollar casino complex.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pickering” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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