Kings Highway 2, originally known as Kingston Road, was one of the earliest primary means of transportation between Toronto and Kingston in the early 19th century. The sheltered ports at Port Whitby and Oshawa Harbour supported thriving grain and . . . — — Map (db m258975) HM
Upper Plaque On this site British Security Co-Ordination operated Special Training School No. 103 and Hydra. S.T.S. 103 trained allied agents in the techniques of secret warfare for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) Branch of the . . . — — Map (db m61880) HM
James Rutledge, chairman of the Board of Education, laid the corner stone for this building on June 9, 1913. The library was funded by the Carnegie Corporation in the United States, and was officially opened by the County Clerk John E. Farewell on . . . — — Map (db m217981) HM
On June 9, 1901, fire broke out in the three storey Gross & Granger hardware building on this site. When the flames reached boxes of live ammunition, bullets shot into the street and no one could go near the site for half an hour. Several people . . . — — Map (db m258978) HM
The first branch of the Dominion Bank outside Toronto opened on Feb, 23, 1871 at 121 Brock Street North. In 1874, a new building was erected on this site which the bank occupied until
1970. James Holden, of Whitby, was responsible for locating the . . . — — Map (db m259075) HM
On October 16, 1877, fire destroyed almost all the business buildings on the east side of Brock Street from Dundas to Colborne, with the exception of the Dominion Bank. The fire started when a deliveryman dropped a tray of lighted coal oil lamps. . . . — — Map (db m259074) HM
The J. Wilkinson Building was part of the commercial centre in the historic downtown of Whitby following its 1852 designation as the administrative centre for the County of Ontario. Built in 1855 by John Wilkinson as a three-storey brick . . . — — Map (db m260144) HM
A house on this site, demolished in 1971, was the childhood home of Georgina May Campbell. Under the stage name of May Irwin, she was America’s greatest vaudeville and stage comedienne from the 1880’s to the 1900’s. She is best known for an . . . — — Map (db m218005) HM
On Nov. 2, 1872, the Merryweather steam fire engine shot a stream of water over the top of All Saints Church steeple through 800 feet of hose from a well at Brock and Dundas Streets. The test convinced the Town to purchase the engine. In 1969, . . . — — Map (db m236753) HM
Opened in 1874 by the Governor-General, Lord Dufferin, the Ontario Ladies’ College was established in "Trafalgar Castle", former residence of Nelson Gilbert Reynolds, Sheriff of Ontario County. Built in 1859, "Trafalgar Castle" was visited im 1869 . . . — — Map (db m245264) HM
On this site, Peter Perry (1792-1851) built a general store in 1836, establishing Downtown Whitby at the intersection of the Kingston Road (Hwy. 2) and the Brock Road leading from the north from Whitby Harbour. The settlement was known as Perry's . . . — — Map (db m259134) HM
This site was originally the location of James Sawdon & Sons, a coal storage and fuel company. The one-storey building was constructed of brick and later expanded with a wood-frame addition.
Although its exact date of construction is unknown, it . . . — — Map (db m259072) HM
In the Royal Hotel, Canada’s first Prime Minister, as Leader of the Opposition, delivered a speech on May 2, 1877 in support of the local Conservative candidate Thomas N. Gibbs of Oshawa. The Royal Hotel, operated by James Pringle, was built in . . . — — Map (db m218144) HM
The Terrace, built as a fashionable address for professionals and their offices, is probably one of the finest examples of small-town Ontario row housing still standing in the province. The Whitby Local Architectural Conservation Advisory . . . — — Map (db m218147) HM
This church acknowledges being on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island, the Iroquoian speaking Wendat and the 1923 Williams Treaties First Nations — — Map (db m236759) HM
On July 10, 1847 at Scripture's Inn on this site, a public meeting
was called to change the name of Windsor to Whitby because
of confusion in mail and shipping, with Windsor near Detroit. Whitby village was first called Windsor in 1819 by John . . . — — Map (db m245277) HM
Whitby's status was elevated to a 'County Town' in 1852 which instigated the arrival of several prominent institutional buildings. Originally built in 1857 by William Till, a cabinet maker, this building was one of three built properties developed . . . — — Map (db m260145) HM
