Thornton’s Corners

Thornton’s Corners is a hamlet in Ontario, Canada. Thornton’s Corners is situated nearby to the neighborhood Thornton Woods, as well as near Vanier.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oshawa Centre and Oshawa GO Station.

Oshawa Centre

Shopping center

Photo: Magnolia677, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Oshawa Centre is a two-storey shopping mall located in the city of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Located at King Street and Stevenson Road, it is the largest mall in Durham Region and the largest in Ontario east of Toronto with over 230 retail stores and public services.

Oshawa GO Station

Railway station

Photo: PascalHD, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Oshawa station, known as Durham College Oshawa GO Station by GO Transit for sponsorship reasons, is a station for commuter rail, passenger rail and regional bus services in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.

Parkwood Estate

Park

Photo: Robert AD Scott, Public domain.

The Parkwood Estate, located in Oshawa, Ontario, was the residence of Samuel McLaughlin and was home to the McLaughlin family from 1917 until 1972. The residence was designed by Darling and Pearson, a noted Toronto architectural firm, with construction starting in 1916. Parkwood Estate is situated 2½ km northeast of Thornton’s Corners.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oshawa and Whitby.

Oshawa

Photo: Shaundd, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

Whitby

Photo: The Cosmonaut, CC BY-SA 2.5 ca.

Whitby, a suburb directly west of Oshawa, is in the heart of the Durham region, 48 km east of Toronto, in the eastern part of the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario. It has a population of 140,000 people.

Brooklin

Suburb

Photo: PascalHD, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brooklin is a community in the town of Whitby, Ontario, Canada, north of central Whitby, at the south junction of Ontario Highways 12 and 7. While Brooklin proper is confined to a specific area, people in the surrounding area largely identify their location as "Brooklin" rather than "Whitby". Brooklin is situated 9 km northwest of Thornton’s Corners.

Thornton’s Corners

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude

43.89065° or 43° 53′ 26″ north

Longitude

-78.89277° or 78° 53′ 34″ west

Open location code

87M3V4R4+7V

OpenStreetMap ID

node 993987360

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Trent University - Durham GTA Campus and Oshawa Union Cemetery.

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