Whitby, Ontario
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| Town (lower-tier) | |
| Town of Whitby | |
Brock Street in Whitby
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| Motto: Durham's Business Centre | |
 Whitby
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| Coordinates: 43°53′N 78°56.5′W / 43.883°N 78.9417°WCoordinates: 43°53′N 78°56.5′W / 43.883°N 78.9417°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Ontario
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| Region | Durham |
| Incorporated | 1855 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Don Mitchell |
| • Governing body | Whitby Town Council |
| • MP | Celina Caesar-Chavannes (L) |
| • MPP | Lorne Coe (C) |
| Area | |
| • Land | 146.53 km2 (56.58 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 91 m (299 ft) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 128,377 (Ranked 41st) |
| • Density | 876.1/km2 (2,269/sq mi) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern (EDT) (UTC−4) |
| Website | whitby.ca |
Whitby (2016 population 128,377) is a town in Durham Region. Whitby is located in Southern Ontario east of Ajax and west of Oshawa, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region. It is approximately 20 km (12 mi) east of the Toronto borough of Scarborough, and it is known as a commuter suburb in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area. While the southern portion of Whitby is predominantly urban and an economic hub, the northern part of the municipality is more rural and includes the communities of Ashburn, Brooklin, Myrtle, and Myrtle Station.
Whitby Township (now the Town of Whitby) was named after the seaport town of Whitby, Yorkshire, England. In addition to Whitby, Yorkshire, the Town of Whitby is also officially twinned with Longueuil, Quebec and Feldkirch, Austria.
When the township was originally surveyed in 1792, the surveyor, from the northern part of England, named the townships east of Toronto after towns in northeastern England: York, Scarborough, Pickering, Whitby and Darlington. The original name of "Whitby" is Danish, dating from about 867 AD when the Danes invaded Britain. It is a contraction of "Whitteby," meaning "White Village." The allusion may be to the white lighthouse on the pier at Whitby, Yorkshire, and also at Whitby, Ontario.' Although settlement dates back to 1800, it was not until 1836 that a downtown business centre was established by Whitby's founder Peter Perry.
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