Pickering Beach is a community in Durham Region, Ontario

Ontario

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 Canada

Canada

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, located on Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario

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 approximately 30 minutes from Toronto

Toronto

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. It was once an important cottage destination for the upper class that was established by the prominent Toronto lawyer James Tuckett, in the 1920s. Today it is a part of the Town of Ajax

Ajax, Ontario

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 with most of the land having lost its original cottages, colossal homes having been built in their place. Among notable Canadians who were born in, lived in, or visited the beach are grocery chain founder T. P. Loblaw

Theodore Loblaw

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, wrestler 'Whipper' Billy Watson

Whipper Billy Watson

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, artist Florence Helena McGillivray

Florence Helena McGillivray

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, pioneering woman school board trustee Alice Charlotte Corbet and artist Christian Cardell Corbet

Christian Cardell Corbet

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