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2 days ago · Another monastery was founded in 1078 AD. It was in this period that it gained its current name, Whitby (from "white settlement" in Old Norse).
3 days ago · He changed its name from Toronto to York; two years later (1795) Ontario’s capital consisted of only 12 cottages and a small military establishment on the edge of the wilderness. While the British were engaged with France in Europe, the United States declared war on Britain.
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3 days ago · The Greater Toronto Area, commonly referred to as the GTA, includes the City of Toronto and the regional municipalities of Durham, Halton, Peel, and York. In total, the region contains 25 urban, suburban, and rural municipalities.
Sep 6, 2024 · These Whitby yards, alleyways, and ‘ghauts,’ known locally, are the spaces between tiers of houses built back and back into the cliffs in Whitby to house fishing families. In times past, Whitby’s yards were often overcrowded areas with as many as 30 or 40 families living in abject poverty.
Sep 8, 2024 · This article traces the inspiration behind Bram Stoker’s character and plot creation for his Gothic novel Dracula, taking the reader on a visit to Whitby and Cruden Bay, two of Stoker's favoured holiday locations, on the North-East coast of the UK.
1 day ago · Toronto, city, capital of the province of Ontario in southeastern Canada, on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. It is the most populous metropolitan area in Canada and the most important city in Canada’s most prosperous province.
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4 days ago · Alderswaste Ghaut was named after the family of Alder (Young, loc. cit.) or Audus (inform. from Mr. Buchannan). An alley running down to the river is called in Whitby a 'ghaut,' a name treated as purely Anglo-Indian in Murray's New Engl. Dict. 48. Charlton copied some of the inscriptions (op. cit. 346–9), and those still legible were copied ...
