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Duffins Creek is a waterway in the eastern end of the Greater Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada.[1]

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  1. 73 relations: Absentee landlord, Ajax, Ontario, Altona, Ontario, Archaic period (North America), Atlantic salmon, Augustus Jones, Bead Hill, Beaver Wars, Bloomington, Whitchurch-Stouffville, Borden System, Brougham, Ontario, Canada, Canoe, Chert, Claremont, Ontario, Clergy reserve, Defence Industries Limited Pickering Works, Draper Site, Flint, Glasgow, Ontario, Grand Trunk Railway, Great Lakes Basin, Greater Toronto Area, Greenwood, Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario, Humber River (Ontario), Huron-Wendat Nation, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Iroquoian peoples, Iroquois, Lake Ontario, Last Glacial Period, Lithic flake, Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America, Markham, Ontario, Mississaugas, Mongolia, Ontario, Navigability, Oak Ridges Moraine, Ojibwe, Ojibwe language, Ontario, Ontario Highway 2, Paleo-Indians, Palisade, Petun, Pickering Airport Lands, Pickering Village, Pickering, Ontario, Projectile point, Provinces and territories of Canada, ... Expand index (23 more) »

  2. Rivers of the Regional Municipality of Durham
  3. Rivers of the Regional Municipality of York
  4. Tributaries of Lake Ontario

Absentee landlord

In economics, an absentee landlord is a person who owns and rents out a profit-earning property, but does not live within the property's local economic region.

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Ajax, Ontario

Ajax (2021 population: 126,666) is a waterfront town in Durham Region in Southern Ontario, Canada, located in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area.

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Altona, Ontario

Altona is a ghost town located in Pickering, Ontario, at Sideline 30 and the Pickering-Uxbridge Town Line.

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Archaic period (North America)

In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.

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Atlantic salmon

The Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae.

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Augustus Jones

Augustus Jones (– November 16, 1836) was a North American-born Upper Canadian farmer, land speculator, magistrate, militia captain and surveyor.

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Bead Hill

Bead Hill is an archaeological site comprising the only known remaining and intact 17th-century Seneca site in Canada.

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Beaver Wars

The Beaver Wars (Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (Guerres franco-iroquoises), were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.

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Bloomington, Whitchurch-Stouffville

Bloomington is a hamlet in York Region, Ontario, Canada, in the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville.

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Borden System

The Borden System is an archaeological numbering system used throughout Canada and by the Canadian Museum System to track archaeological sites and the artefacts that come from them.

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Brougham, Ontario

Brougham is a community within the northern part of the City of Pickering, in Durham Region of Ontario, Canada.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canoe

A canoe is a lightweight narrow water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles.

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Chert

Chert is a hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline quartz, the mineral form of silicon dioxide (SiO2).

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Claremont, Ontario

Claremont is an unincorporated community in Southern Ontario in the north part of Pickering, Ontario, Canada.

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Clergy reserve

Clergy reserves were tracts of land in Upper Canada and Lower Canada reserved for the support of "Protestant clergy" by the Constitutional Act 1791.

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Defence Industries Limited Pickering Works

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.

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Draper Site

The Draper Site is a precontact period (late fifteenth-century) Huron-Wendat ancestral village located on a tributary of West Duffins Creek in present-day Pickering, Ontario, approximately 35 kilometres northeast of Toronto.

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Flint

Flint, occasionally flintstone, is a sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone.

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Glasgow, Ontario

Glasgow is a community located in the Regional Municipality of Durham in Ontario, Canada.

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Grand Trunk Railway

The Grand Trunk Railway (Grand Tronc) was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

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Great Lakes Basin

The Great Lakes Basin consists of the Great Lakes and the surrounding lands of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in the United States, and the province of Ontario in Canada, whose direct surface runoff and watersheds form a large drainage basin that feeds into the lakes.

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Greater Toronto Area

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.

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Greenwood, Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario

Greenwood is a small rural hamlet within the city of Pickering in Ontario, Canada.

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Humber River (Ontario)

The Humber River (p, meaning: "little thundering waters") is a river in Southern Ontario, Canada. Duffins Creek and Humber River (Ontario) are tributaries of Lake Ontario.

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Huron-Wendat Nation

The Huron-Wendat Nation (or Huron-Wendat First Nation) is an Iroquoian-speaking nation that was established in the 17th century.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada (Peuples autochtones au Canada, also known as Aboriginals) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada.

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Iroquoian peoples

The Iroquoian peoples are an ethnolinguistic group of peoples from eastern North America.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.

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Lithic flake

In archaeology, a lithic flake is a "portion of rock removed from an objective piece by percussion or pressure,"Andrefsky, W. (2005) Lithics: Macroscopic Approaches to Analysis.

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Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America

Longhouses were a style of residential dwelling built by Native American and First Nations peoples in various parts of North America.

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Markham, Ontario

Markham is a city in York Region, Ontario, Canada.

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Mississaugas

The Mississaugas are a group of First Nations peoples located in southern Ontario, Canada.

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Mongolia, Ontario

Mongolia is an historical community in Markham, Ontario centred on 10th Line (Reesor Road) and Elgin Mills Rd.

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A body of water, such as a river, canal or lake, is navigable if it is deep, wide and calm enough for a water vessel (e.g. boats) to pass safely.

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Oak Ridges Moraine

The Oak Ridges Moraine is an ecologically important geological landform in the Mixedwood Plains of south-central Ontario, Canada.

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Ojibwe

The Ojibwe (syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and throughout the northeastern woodlands.

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Ojibwe language

Ojibwe, also known as Ojibwa, Ojibway, Otchipwe,R.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Ontario Highway 2

King's Highway2, commonly referred to as Highway2, is the lowest-numbered provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario, and was originally part of a series of identically numbered highways which started in Windsor, stretched through Quebec and New Brunswick, and ended in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Paleo-Indians

Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period.

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Palisade

A palisade, sometimes called a stakewall or a paling, is typically a row of closely placed, high vertical standing tree trunks or wooden or iron stakes used as a fence for enclosure or as a defensive wall.

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Petun

The Petun (from pétun), also known as the Tobacco people or Tionontati (Dionnontate, Etionontate, Etionnontateronnon, Tuinontatek, Dionondadie,or Khionotaterrhonon) ("People Among the Hills/Mountains"), were an indigenous Iroquoian people of the woodlands of eastern North America.

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Pickering Airport Lands

The Pickering Airport Lands are parcels of lands owned by the Government of Canada located in York Region and Durham Region in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario.

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Pickering Village

Pickering Village is a former municipality and now a neighbourhood in the town of Ajax, within the Durham Region of Ontario, Canada.

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Pickering, Ontario

Pickering (2021 population 99,186) is a city located in Southern Ontario, Canada, immediately east of Toronto in Durham Region.

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Projectile point

In archaeological terminology, a projectile point is an object that was hafted to a weapon that was capable of being thrown or projected, such as a javelin, dart, or arrow.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Regional Municipality of Durham

The Regional Municipality of Durham, informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada.

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Regional Municipality of York

The Regional Municipality of York, also called York Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, between Lake Simcoe and Toronto.

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River source

The headwater of a river or stream is the farthest point on each of its tributaries upstream from its mouth/estuary into a lake/sea or its confluence with another river.

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Rouge National Urban Park

Rouge National Urban Park is a national urban park in Ontario, Canada.

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Rouge River (Ontario)

The Rouge River is a river in Markham, Pickering, Richmond Hill and Toronto in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. Duffins Creek and Rouge River (Ontario) are tributaries of Lake Ontario.

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Seaton, Ontario

Seaton will be a community in north Pickering in Ontario, Canada.

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Seneca people

The Seneca (Great Hill People) are a group of Indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people who historically lived south of Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes in North America.

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Shoal

In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or above it, which poses a danger to navigation.

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Sir David William Smith, 1st Baronet

Sir David William Smith, 1st Baronet (September 4, 1764 – May 9, 1837) was a soldier and political figure in Upper Canada.

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Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice

The Society of Priests of Saint-Sulpice (Compagnie des Prêtres de Saint-Sulpice; PSS), also known as the Sulpicians, is a society of apostolic life of Pontifical Right for men, named after the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, where it was founded.

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Southern Ontario

Southern Ontario is a primary region of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Stouffville

Stouffville is the primary urban area within the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville in York Region, Ontario, Canada.

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Surveying

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.

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Teiaiagon

Teiaiagon was an Iroquoian village on the east bank of the Humber River in what is now the York district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Timothy Rogers (Quaker leader)

Timothy Rogers (1756–1834) was a Quaker settler.

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The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) is a conservation authority in southern Ontario, Canada.

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Toronto Carrying-Place Trail

The Toronto Carrying-Place Trail, also known as the Humber Portage and the Toronto Passage, was a major portage route in Ontario, Canada, linking Lake Ontario with Lake Simcoe and the northern Great Lakes.

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Upper Canada

The Province of Upper Canada (province du Haut-Canada) was a part of British Canada established in 1791 by the Kingdom of Great Britain, to govern the central third of the lands in British North America, formerly part of the Province of Quebec since 1763.

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Uxbridge

Uxbridge is a suburban town in west London and the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Uxbridge, Ontario

Uxbridge is a township in the Regional Municipality of Durham in south-central Ontario, Canada.

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Whitchurch-Stouffville

Whitchurch-Stouffville (2021 population 49,864) is a town in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada, approximately north of downtown Toronto, and north-east of Toronto Pearson International Airport.

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Whitevale, Ontario

Whitevale, formerly Majorville, is a community located within the City of Pickering in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada.

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Woodland period

In the classification of archaeological cultures of North America, the Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures spanned a period from roughly 1000 BCE to European contact in the eastern part of North America, with some archaeologists distinguishing the Mississippian period, from 1000 CE to European contact as a separate period.

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See also

Rivers of the Regional Municipality of Durham

Rivers of the Regional Municipality of York

Tributaries of Lake Ontario

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffins_Creek

Also known as Lower Duffins Creek.

, Regional Municipality of Durham, Regional Municipality of York, River source, Rouge National Urban Park, Rouge River (Ontario), Seaton, Ontario, Seneca people, Shoal, Sir David William Smith, 1st Baronet, Society of the Priests of Saint Sulpice, Southern Ontario, Stouffville, Surveying, Teiaiagon, Timothy Rogers (Quaker leader), Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, Toronto Carrying-Place Trail, Upper Canada, Uxbridge, Uxbridge, Ontario, Whitchurch-Stouffville, Whitevale, Ontario, Woodland period.