In Oshawa was incorporated as a village. The name "Oshawa" was chosen to represent the original settlement and translates from native dialect to mean "that point at the crossing of the stream where the canoe was exchanged for the trail. Port Sydenham was located only five kilometres from the centre of town and provided a means of importing and exporting goods to and from Oshawa.
However, the railway's arrival in Oshawa in greatly affected business at Port Sydenham as coal and other supplies were brought in by rail, rather than ship. In the mid to late s, Oshawa's industry continued to grow, especially with the development of the Grand Trunk Railway from Toronto to Montreal. With the automobile gaining popularity in the early s, the McLaughlin family decided to enter the business by contracting with the Buick Motor Car Company of Michigan for use of the Buick engine in the McLaughlin car.
The economic impact of this for the City of. Oshawa is considerable and is expected to cont in ue to grow. October Knowledge Infrastructure Program. Construction commenced in November and was. ACE is available to rent by manufacturers of all. In fact, ACE personnel are receiv in g in quiries from prospective clients from across.
North America. The total cost of the facility is. In January , the formal commission in g process was completed at ACE. For months,. ACE personnel worked with suppliers and eng in eers to test, adjust and modify the various. This in crease of 8. In February , Durham College announced the results of an economic impact study. The fund in g, received through the College and Community Innovation Program, will help.
Durham College of ficially opened Phase 2 of its three-phase Whitby campus expansion in. May , of fer in g new labs, shops, classrooms, boardrooms and more. The second phase. Durham College has partnered with Centennial College to in troduce a new jo in t learn in g. The college launched 13 new programs for the academic year in clud in g. Thanks to new partnerships with Durham College, 16 bus in esses in southern Ontario were. In November, the college announced its eligibility for fund in g from the Social Sciences.
The groundbreak in g for Phase 3 of the Whitby campus expansion took place in December,. The new build in g will feature state- of -the-art labs, classrooms and. Literature, History, Psychology and Sociology. Trent University Oshawa students also enjoy.
University Oshawa forecasts that its student population will jump from about for the. The university. Medic in e residents for their two- year program start in g July The Centre promotes a positive cultural change toward education and research in a hospital. Equipped with the latest technology, the Centre houses a state- of -the-art auditorium.
The Centre of fers a unique opportunity for educational and tra in in g opportunities to occur. The Highway East Extension project cont in ues to move forward.
Infrastructure Ontario. The successful bidder is expected to be. Preparation work for Phase 1 construction will beg in later this. The Phase 1 extension will stretch 22 km from Brock Road in Picker in g through to. Harmony Road in Oshawa and will be open to traffic in late The project in cludes the construction of a third track at key segments of the route, and. These projects are coord in ated with the track improvement projects noted. Lakeshore East corridor between Oshawa and Bowmanville and the potential for two new.
GO stations in Oshawa. To support the planned expansion, Metrol in x is build in g a new. The facility is expected. Metrol in x manages and in tegrates road transport and public. At the Oshawa Municipal Airport, a number of new hangarm in iums are under construction. Corporation FarmTech to construct an ethanol ref in ery at the Oshawa Harbour. In August , respond in g to an opportunity to review the. This submission emphasizes that the Screen in g Report does not comply with the legal.
The City has acquired approximately 27 acres of land located near the Oshawa Harbour. The City will. CPA for the Oshawa Harbour. Commission and will guide the development of a plan for the Oshawa Harbour. Oshawa residents and bus in esses took part in Earth Hour The meet in g, hosted by the City of Oshawa , brought together municipal leaders and senior. Oshawa Bike Week took place May 30 - June 4.
Daily activities promoted cycl in g as a. Participants had a chance to w in. Park and the Second Marsh. Even in g events in cluded a Bike Night, hosted by Trent. University Oshawa , and a Bike Fair that in cluded displays and a workshop on bike safety.
College Whitby Campus. More than students at Durham College are currently in volved. The City and Durham College have partnered to in vestigate the potential of in stall in g solar. Gem in i award-w in n in g producer, Mark Terry took questions from the audience follow in g the. S in ce , the City has used Warm Mix Asphalt to resurface a number of roads in the. Warm Mix Asphalt is a greener alternative.
It allows the producers of asphalt. In addition, this new asphalt has a prolonged. The City has converted the street lights on two roadway sections to LED technology.
Furthermore, because of these benefits, the City has. To accommodate Oshawa residents, build in g. Monday to Friday. Plumb in g in spections can also be arranged between the hours noted. Oshawa residents enjoy greater convenience when they are request in g in formation on many. City services and programs. Service Oshawa has been provid in g extended hours customer. Service Oshawa representatives are available to provide in formation. Furthermore, the City monitors weather conditions us in g.
Live, video stream in g coverage of regular Oshawa City Council meet in gs is now. The service enables. In addition to the live webcasts, an archive service allows residents to. Residents enjoy the convenience of onl in e program registrations. Of the approximately. Over 18, participants in clud in g school classes, community groups, families, bus in esses.
This year , the Community Clean-Up Week will take. Rededication on April One of the highlights of the ceremony was the unveil in g of the. In , through a partnership with the City , Scout troops planted more than OYC currently has 15 members, ages rang in g from 12 to 18 year s. In support of National Youth Week, the City held a variety of free activities at its recreation. The activities seven in total were planned by the Oshawa Youth. Volunteers, as well as. The Oshawa Municipal Airport departure lounge was named in memory of W in g.
Commander Lloyd Chadburn in September. Members of Oshawa Council were jo in ed by. The main campus of Durham College is also located in the city.
The university and college share a campus and some facilities, but the two institutions are independent. Given the city's industrial heritage, the university's courses emphasize technology, manufacturing and engineering themes. It is the only university in Canada to offer degree programs in Automotive Engineering and Nuclear Engineering.
Trent University also offers full-time programs at its campus near the Oshawa Civic Auditorium in the city's west end, which opened in September This bed facility is the major regional hospital for the area and also houses the R. Oshawa Fire Services - operated by the city - operates from five fire stations located throughout the city. Oshawa was the first city in Ontario to provide Paramedic services.
In a group of 16 ambulance attendants were given specialized training to treat cardiac related problems in the pre-hospital setting. From this single service, paramedic training was expanded to Toronto, Hamilton and the Provincial air ambulance service.
The program has been the source of all paramedic programs in Ontario. Three of the original paramedics are still certified in Oshawa has few media outlets of its own due to its proximity to Toronto. Both stations are owned by Durham Radio, which also owns CJKX , which is licenced to the nearby community of Ajax , although all three stations are operated from the same studios at the Oshawa Airport.
Although a larger city than Peterborough then and now, Oshawa was not granted a television station in the original s assignments as it was geographically too close to Toronto, since the original spacings were set at km 90 mi. Rogers Television, the local cable provider also serves the community with local television programming. Oshawa is served by a number of community newspapers, including the Oshawa Express , an independent which publishes every Wednesday, and Oshawa This Week , published three times per week by Metroland.
The long-standing daily newspaper, the Oshawa Times also known at various times as the Oshawa Daily Times and Times-Gazette , was closed by its owner Thomson Newspapers , after a lengthy strike in Oshawa is home to the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League , the top level for players aged 15— The Oshawa Generals have the dubious distinction of having their home arena destroyed by fire not once, but twice in the franchise history.
In June the Bradley Arena was destroyed by fire. Then 25 years later, the Hambly Arena was also destroyed by fire. The Power will play home games at the General Motors Centre. Oshawa was for many years one of the main centres for the sport of lacrosse and home of the Oshawa Green Gaels , one of the most storied teams in the sport.
During the s, when lacrosse seemed on the edge of oblivion in Canada, the Green Gaels themselves having folded in the early part of the decade , lacrosse continued to be played in the neighbouring towns of Whitby and Brooklin, and many of the players were from Oshawa. However, since then, Clarington has taken over the Green Gaels association. With the rise of the National Lacrosse League the sport's survival seems assured and again, many players and others involved in the professional league are from the Oshawa area.
The Club offers recreational programs for children as well as adult men's and women's leagues. In the Kicks were the first soccer club to operate children's and adult's winter soccer leagues in the new Civic Fieldhouse. The Club has a competitive program for both youth and adults, with an impressive history of Ontario Cup Championships, winning 7 provincial titles from Founded in , the Oshawa Turul Soccer Club had a sizeable role in the development of competitive soccer community of Oshawa.
The club had 2 national championship teams, the first in and again in The Oshawa Central Council of Neighbourhood Associations offers recreational soccer, softball and hockey leagues for children through its Neighbourhood Association Sports Committee.
GO Transit trains connect the city with Toronto, Hamilton and points between. GO Transit bus service is also provided from Oshawa Train station to Clarington and Peterborough via the downtown bus terminal. Other services from the station include GO Buses, and the regional transit system Durham Region Transit provides local bus service, having replaced Oshawa Transit on January 1, Rail freight is carried on both the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways which traverse the city.
Other than Highway 2 , which reverted to local jurisdiction King Street and Bond Street in , the city had no provincially maintained highways until the original section of Highway opened in as Highway 2A. The highway originally terminated at Ritson Road, and was extended east through the remainder of the city to Newcastle in Oshawa was the only city that Highway was built directly through, rather than bypassing.
This resulted in the demolition of several streets and hundreds of homes in the s and s. The Port of Oshawa is a major stop for the auto and steel industries as well as winter road salt handling and agricultural fertilizer. A regional airport with on-site customs and immigration authorities also services the City see above. This growth allowed Oshawa to seek incorporation as a city, which took place 8 March With the wealth he gained in his business venture, in McLaughlin built one of the most stately homes in Canada, " Parkwood ".
The room residence was designed by Toronto architect John M. McLaughlin lived in the house for 55 years with his wife and they raised five daughters. The house replaced an older mansion, which was about 30 years old when it was demolished; the grounds of the earlier home had been operated as Prospect Park, and this land was acquired by the town and became its first municipal park, Alexandra Park. Parkwood today is open to the public as a National Historic Site. Tours are offered. On 8 April , disputes between assembly line workers and General Motors management led to the Oshawa Strike, a salient event in the history of Canadian trade unionism.
As the weight of the Great Depression slowly began to lift, demand for automobiles again began to grow. The workers sought higher wages, an eight-hour workday, better working conditions and recognition of their union, the United Auto Workers Local The then-Liberal government of Mitchell Hepburn, which had been elected on a platform of being the working man's friend, sided with the corporation and brought in armed university students to break up any union agitation.
These much-derided "Hepburn's Hussars" and "Sons of Mitches" were never needed as the union refused to be drawn into violent acts. The union and workers had the backing of the local population, other unions and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party, and on 23 April, two weeks after the strike started, the company gave in to most of the workers' demands, although — pointedly — it did not recognize the union.
Some of this area had been developed during the s boom period, although it was not within the boundaries of the city. The opening of the Oshawa Shopping Centre now the Oshawa Centre fewer than two kilometres west of the "four corners" in struck a blow to Oshawa's downtown from which it has never been able to recover. The shopping centre was built on land which had been an unproductive farm; when its owner gave up on agriculture, this released a very large area of land for the construction of a mall.
The Oshawa Centre is the largest shopping mall in Ontario east of Toronto. The opening of what later became Highway , then known as Highway 2A, shortly after World War II sparked increased residential growth in Oshawa and the other lakeshore municipalities of Ontario County, which led to the creation of the Regional Municipality of Durham in Oshawa was amalgamated with the remaining portions of East Whitby Township and took on its present boundaries, which included the outlying villages of Columbus, Raglan and Kedron.
Much of Oshawa's industry has closed over the years; however, it is still the headquarters of GM Canada and its major manufacturing site. Current industries of note include manufacturing of railway maintenance equipment, mining equipment, steel fabrication, and rubber products. Oshawa is also recognized as an official port of entry for immigration and customs services. GO Transit trains connect the city with Toronto, Hamilton and points between.
GO Transit bus service is also provided from Oshawa Train station to Clarington and Peterborough via the downtown bus terminal. Other services from the station include GO Buses, and the regional transit system Durham Region Transit provides local bus service.
It replaced Oshawa Transit on 1 January The province announced in June an extension of the GO train service from Oshawa to Bowmanville, including extending the train network by nearly 20 kilometres and building four new stations. The new GO rail service is expected to begin by
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