Whitby

Whitby is a town in Durham Region. Whitby is situated in Southern Ontario east of Ajax and west of Oshawa, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and is home to the base camp of Durham Region. It had a populace of 128,377 at the 2016 statistics and it is around 20 km 12 mi east of the Toronto district of Scarborough, and it is known as a suburbanite suburb in the eastern piece of the Greater Toronto Area. While the southern segment of Whitby is overwhelmingly urban and a financial center, the northern piece of the region is more country and incorporates the networks of Ashburn, Brooklin, Myrtle, and Myrtle Station.

Whitby Township was named after the seaport town of Whitby, Yorkshire, England. Notwithstanding Whitby, Yorkshire, the Town of Whitby is additionally formally twinned with Longueuil, Quebec, and Feldkirch, Austria. At the point when the township was initially reviewed in 1792, the surveyor, from the northern piece of England, named the townships east of Toronto after towns in northeastern England: York, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Darlington.

The first name of "Whitby" is Danish, dating from around 867 AD when the Danes attacked Britain. It is a withdrawal of "Whitteby," signifying "White Village." The implication might be to the white beacon on the dock at Whitby, Yorkshire, and furthermore at Whitby, Ontario.' Although settlement goes back to 1800, it was not until 1836 that a downtown business focus was built up by Whitby's author Peter Perry.