Farewell Creek
Farewell Creek is a watercourse in Durham County, that empties into Lake Ontario, at Oshawa, Ontario. It drains a watershed of 10,726 hectares. To the west and east it borders Oshawa Creek, and Bowmanville Creek, which have their headwaters in the Oak Ridges Moraine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Oshawa Museum and Darlington Provincial Park.
Oshawa Museum
Museum
The Oshawa Museum is a historical museum founded by the Oshawa Historical Society, located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. It has a dual role as a museum; exhibits for the general public, and archival storage of the city's historical documents.
Darlington Provincial Park
Nature reserve
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Darlington Provincial Park is a provincial park in Ontario, Canada. It is located just south of Highway 401 in the city of Bowmanville. A small park, the topography is dominated by gentle hills formed by a terminal moraine deposited by glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age. Darlington Provincial Park is situated 2½ km east of Farewell Creek.
G. L. Roberts Collegiate and Vocational Institute
School
G. L. Roberts Collegiate and Vocational Institute is located in Oshawa, Ontario within the Durham District School Board. The school has students in grades 9-12 and offers a wide range of academic and extracurricular activities.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oshawa and Courtice.
Oshawa
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Oshawa is a city of 160,000 people in southern Ontario, 50 km east of Toronto. Oshawa has been a centre of Canada's automotive industry since the early 20th century, and is home to the Canadian Automotive Museum.
Courtice
Town
Courtice is a community in Ontario, Canada, about 60 km east of Toronto, within the Municipality of Clarington. Adjacent to Oshawa, it is west of Bowmanville, which is also part of Clarington. Courtice is situated 6 km northeast of Farewell Creek.
Mitchell’s Corners
Hamlet
Mitchell's Corners is a dispersed rural community in the municipality of Clarington, Ontario, Canada, directly north of Courtice, at the intersection of Trulls Road and Taunton Rd. Mitchell’s Corners is situated 9 km north of Farewell Creek.
Farewell Creek
- Type: Stream
- Description: watercourse in Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada
- Categories: watercourse and body of water
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Farewell Creek” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Farewell Creek”
- Swedish: “Farewell Creek”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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