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Oshawa (2006 population 141,590,[1] CMA, 330,594)[2] is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario approximately 60 kilometres east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of both the Greater Toronto Area and the Golden Horseshoe. It is not, however, part of the Toronto CMA but has its own metropolitan area, the fourteenth largest in Canada. It is the largest community in the Regional Municipality of Durham. The name Oshawa originates from the Ojibwa term aazhaway, meaning "the crossing place" or just "(a)cross".[3][4] The automobile industry, specifically the Canadian division of General Motors Corporation, known as General Motors Canada, has always been at the forefront of Oshawa's economy. Founded in 1876 as the McLaughlin Carriage Company, General Motors of Canada's headquarters and major assembly plants are located in the city. The lavish home of the carriage company's founder, Parkwood Estate, is a National Historic Site, and a backdrop favoured by numerous film crews, and has been featured in many movies including Studio 54, Chicago, and X-Men. Oshawa is also home to Windfields Farm, a thoroughbred horse breeding operation and birthplace of Canada's most famous racehorse, Northern Dancer. Once very much a distinct community - physically, economically, and culturally - Oshawa has been increasingly subsumed into the Greater Toronto Area. Oshawa's future For most of the last thirty years, the city has tried to promote the downtown core as a viable place to live and work, with multiple failed attempts to attract new business and other projects to the city core. Local politicians and civic officials hoped that the opening of the General Motors Centre would spark renewed interest in downtown revitalization. In addition, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) has relocated the Faculty of Education into downtown Oshawa, in a building originally built as a bank. The New Durham Region Courthouse under construction will be completed in 2009. Most of Oshawa's growth has occurred on the outer regions of the city. Legislation passed by the Ontario Government in 2005 now protects greenspace to the north of the city (the Oak Ridges Moraine), which will eventually prohibit any further expansion of the urban boundary. This will likely result in the redevelopment of Oshawa's many 'brownfield' sites, and may result in increased density. In fact, a large tract of land became available for development in 2008 when the old GM "north plant" was finally demolished. Because Oshawa was for many years a separate and distinct city from Toronto, it remains in certain ways an urban centre unto itself, adjoined by several suburbs in its Census Metropolitan Area, which is entirely contained within the Greater Toronto Area(GTA). Although many residents commute to Toronto for employment, the city is not considered a bedroom community of Toronto. In fact, Oshawa experienced its fastest growth (which was locally self-sustained) well before Toronto spilled over the boundaries of the now-defunct Metropolitan Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite this, in the mid 1990s, Oshawa residents still voted in a non-binding referendum to overwhelmingly reject any incorporation into a possible Greater Toronto Area amalgamation that would include it. This, however, may have simply reflected an overall dissatisfaction among citizens in the GTA when Metropolitan Toronto was itself amalgamated by the then-governing Progressive Conservative Party of Premier Mike Harris.
[edit] Economy Oshawa is headquarters to General Motors Canada, which has large-scale manufacturing and administrative operations in the city and employs many thousands both directly and indirectly. Since Windsor, Ontario houses Chrysler Canada headquarters, the two cities have something of a friendly rivalry for the title of "Automotive Capital of Canada". The revenue collection divisions of the Ontario Ministry of Finance occupy one of the few major office buildings in the city's downtown, which continues to struggle despite business improvement efforts. The city's older southern neighbourhoods tend to be considerably less affluent than its more suburban northern sections, which are rapidly expanding as Toronto commuters move in. The southern half of the city consists of industrial zones and compact housing designed for early 20th century industrial workers, while the northern half has a suburban feel more typical of later decades.
The fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro is a product of GM's Oshawa Car Assembly High wages paid to unionized GM employees have meant that these workers could enjoy a relatively high standard of living, although such jobs are much scarcer today than they once were. During its post-World War II heyday, General Motors offered some of the best manufacturing jobs available in Canada and attracted thousands of workers from economically depressed areas of the country, particularly the Maritimes, Newfoundland, rural Quebec and northern Ontario. The city was also a magnet for European immigrants in the skilled trades, and boasts substantial Polish, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Croatian, German and Russian ethnic communities. Although the workforce at General Motors of Canada has shrunk dramatically in recent years (with more reductions through attrition planned), the company continues to make significant technology and capital investments at its sites in Oshawa. While the company's once essential role in the local economy has diminished, it remains the largest local employer. Many of its operations have been spun off to contractors. In most cases, new owners at the spun-off facilities are not bound by the collective bargaining agreements of the Canadian Auto Workers, and wages at such operations tend to be much lower than at General Motors itself. Oshawa has become one of the fastest growing cities in Canada, although statements to this effect are often in reference to the Census Metropolitan Area, which includes the neighbouring Town of Whitby and Municipality of Clarington. Many commuters have been enticed to Oshawa by comparatively low housing prices and the regular rail service into downtown Toronto provided by GO Transit and VIA Rail. The growth of subdivisions to house Toronto commuters will likely accelerate when the long-planned Highway 407 extension is built across the city's northern tier by 2013. The trend suggests major social changes for Oshawa, which has long had a vigorous labour union presence and largely blue collar identity. Rising property values and the emergence of land speculation associated with suburban growth have created new dynamics for the local economy. While unchecked growth was largely accepted (even embraced) in the 1980s and 1990s, concern over urban sprawl has emerged. In late 2004, the Greater Toronto Airports Authority announced a plan under which the Oshawa Airport would be closed and its traffic diverted to a major new Toronto reliever airport to be constructed in Pickering. The Oshawa airport handles occasional traffic related to General Motors (emergency spare parts and executives); GM has indicated that a move of its air traffic to Pickering would not affect its operations. The airport also handles significant general aviation, two flight training facilities, and numerous other aviation and non-aviation related companies, all of which would need to be diverted or relocated. Significant helicopter support services are also provided for police, military, and HydroOne aircraft. The city has considered ambitious proposals to repurpose the airport lands, but as of January 2006, significant upgrade work is being performed on the main terminal building by the city itself, signalling that the city has no immediate plans to close the busy facility, understanding its importance to the community and local economy (injecting $52 million yearly). Additional aviation related construction is also taking place on the airport lands.
Media Although a relatively large city by Canadian standards, Oshawa has few media outlets of its own due to its proximity to Toronto. The city has one AM station, CKDO (1580) which is rebroadcast on 107.7 FM, and one FM station, CKGE. Both stations are owned by Durham Radio, which also owns CJKX, licenced to the nearby community of Ajax. All three stations are operated from the same studios at the Oshawa Airport. Oshawa also has a rebroadcast transmitter of Peterborough's CBC Television affiliate CHEX which airs a daily afternoon news and current affairs program specially targeted to Durham Region viewers. Although a larger city than Peterborough then and now, Oshawa was not granted a television station in the original 1950s assignments as it was geographically too close to Toronto, since the original spacings were set at 145 km (90 miles). 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 1994.
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[edit] Hockey
General Motors Centre Oshawa is home to the Oshawa Generals of the Ontario Hockey League, the top level for players aged 15–20. Famous alumni of this team include Bobby Orr, Alex Delvecchio, Wayne Cashman, Tony Tanti, Dave Andreychuk, Marc Savard and Eric Lindros. The team moved from the Oshawa Civic Auditorium into the new General Motors Centre in November 2006. 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 1928 the Bradley Arena was destroyed by fire. Then 25 years later, the Hambly Arena was also destroyed by fire.
[edit] Baseball Oshawa is also home to the Oshawa Dodgers of the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL), an amateur baseball league in Canada. Their home park, Kinsmen Stadium is located just to the north of the former site of the Hambly Arena.
[edit] Lacrosse 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. A player of note in the 1920s was Nels Stewart, who became a Hall of Famer in the National Hockey League. During the 1980s, 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. Jason Crosbie, a local teacher at John Pereyma Catholic Secondary School, head coaches the team. 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. Former Oshawa Green Gaels captain and Oshawa native, Derek Keenan, is the current general manager of the Portland Lumberjax.
[edit] Transportation
Oshawa bus terminal GO Transit trains connect the city with Toronto, Hamilton and points between. GO Transit buses provide service from Oshawa along the Highway 401 and Highway 2 corridors in Durham Region and to Toronto and York Region. GO Transit service is also provided from Oshawa GO station to Clarington and Peterborough. The Oshawa Station also serves VIA Rail in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, as well as GO Buses, and Durham Region Transit. Local bus service is provided by Durham Region Transit, a regional transit system started on January 1, 2006 that replaced Oshawa Transit. Private intercity buses are provided by Greyhound (to Toronto, Port Hope, Cobourg and Belleville, as well as to Peterborough and Ottawa, and Can-Ar daily to/from Lindsay and Toronto. Rail freight is carried on both the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railways which traverse the city. Other than Highway 2 (Ontario), which reverted to local jurisdiction (King Street and Bond Street) in 1998, the city had no provincially maintained highways until the original section of Highway 401 opened in 1947 (as Highway 2A). The highway originally terminated at Ritson Road, and was extended east through the remainder of the city to Newcastle in 1952. Oshawa was the only city that Highway 401 was built directly through, rather than bypassing. This resulted in the demolition of several streets and hundreds of homes in the 1930s and 1940s. 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 marine rescue unit (COMRA) is also stationed at the port. A regional airport with on-site customs and immigration authorities also services the City (see above). On May 21, 2009, Canadian Transportation Minister John Baird announced that the status of Oshawa's port would be changed from a harbour commission to a fully-fledged Port Authority. The creation of a federal port authority has caused some controversy as there are others who wish to see the port transferred to municipal ownership and recreational use. Source : Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. Oshawa Schools Directory ACHS College School
11191 Keele Street RR 1
Maple, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 832 8121
Ecole La Fontaine
10110 Avenue Islington
Kleinburg, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 893 1280
Blue Willow Public School
250 Blue Willow Drive
Woodbridge, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 851 0043
York Catholic District School Board
140 Greenpark Boulevard
Woodbridge, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 856 0955
CCI-The Renaissance School In Italy
59 Macamo Court
Maple, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 508 7108
Creative Children's Montessori School Inc
20 Cranston Park Avenue
Maple, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 303 6631
Zoe's Tender Years Child Care Centre
8551 Weston Road
Woodbridge, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 851 6005 | Credo Christian School
8260 Huntingdon
Woodbridge, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 851 1620
Discovery Public School
120 Discovery Trl
Maple, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 417 1622
Elder's Mills Public School
120 Napa Valley
Kleinburg, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 893 1631
Field Study Centre
8180 Hwy 50
Castlemore, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 794 2171
Forest Run Public School
200 Forest Run
Maple, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 417 9227
Glen Shields Public School
158 Glen Shields Avenue
Concord, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 738 0333
| Maple High School
50 Springside Road
Maple, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 417 9444 Hill Academy (The)
10535 Islington
Kleinburg, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 893 7065
Hill Academy Inc (The)
180 Nashville Rd
Kleinburg, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 893 1335
Immaculate Conception School
500 Aberdeen Avenue
Woodbridge, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 851 9528
Learning Has No Limits
7796 Kipling Avenue
Woodbridge, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 265 7553
Lorna Jackson Public School
589 Napa Valley
Kleinburg, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 893 2829
Maple Crest Private School Inc
28 Roytec Road
Woodbridge, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 652 6666 |
Maple Leaf Montessori School Inc
8286 Islington Avenue
Woodbridge, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 856 3359
Montessori Country School The
PO Box 455
Nobleton, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 859 4739
Nobleton Junior Public School
5885 King Rd
Nobleton, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 859 0831
Nobleton Senior Public School
13375 Hwy 27
Nobleton, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 859 4590
North Hill Private School
9050 Dufferin Street
Concord, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 417 9779
Rivendell Hall International School
800 Teston Road
Maple, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 780 9633
RoyalCrest Academy
9500 Dufferin Street
Maple, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 303 7557
St John Bosco Catholic School
199 Belview Avenue
Woodbridge, Ontario
* Phone: +1 905 850 3280
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