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Nov 10, 2015 · The Second World War created Ajax. Here’s how. The defeat of the German vessel Admiral Graf Spee in 1939 was the inspiration for the name of Ajax, Ont. With the Second World War having ended more than 70 years ago, it may seem a little quaint that a major GTA suburb is named in honour of a mostly forgotten 1939 battle off the coast of Uruguay.
Ontario Highway 401. King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one, [3] is a controlled-access 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. It stretches 828 kilometres (514 mi) from Windsor in the west to ...
Hospitals in Canada. Lakeridge Health Ajax and Pickering is a hospital in Ajax, Ontario, Canada that is operated by Lakeridge Health. The hospital opened in 1954 as the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital . It was founded in 1954 as the Ajax and Pickering General Hospital with 38 patient beds. New four-storey wings were added in 1964 and 1994.
Defence Industries Limited (DIL) Pickering Works was a munitions plant owned by the Government of Canada and operated by DIL during 1941–1945, in the Pickering Township of Ontario. The unincorporated community that developed around the plant was named Ajax in honour of the British warship Ajax, and evolved into the town of Ajax, Ontario .
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Ajax—Pickering was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that had been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2011 by Conservative MP Chris Alexander . Its population in 2001 was 100,215. The district included the Town of Ajax and the northern part of the City of Pickering in the eastern suburbs of Toronto.
