Pickering
Pickering is an outer suburb of Toronto in Durham, Ontario. Located directly east of Toronto on Ontario Highway 401, it shares a name with Pickering in North Yorkshire, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Pickering GO Station and The Shops at Pickering City Centre.
Pickering GO Station
Railway station
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Pickering GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Lakeshore East line and was the eastern terminus from 1967 until 1990, when service was extended to Whitby and subsequently to Oshawa.
The Shops at Pickering City Centre
Shopping center
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The Shops at Pickering City Centre is a large regional shopping mall located in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 1972 as Pickering Sheridan Mall, the mall has over 150 stores.
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station
Power station
Pickering Nuclear Generating Station is a Canadian nuclear power station located on the north shore of Lake Ontario in Pickering, Ontario. It is one of the oldest nuclear power stations in the world and Canada's third-largest, with eight CANDU reactors.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ajax and West Rouge.
Ajax
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Ajax is a town in Durham Region, midway between Oshawa and Toronto. Split from Pickering Township in 1941 to house munitions factory Defence Industries Limited, it is now a growing Greater Toronto Area suburb with nearly 127,000 people.
West Rouge
Neighborhood
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West Rouge is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the south-east corner of Toronto, within the former city of Scarborough. The community is roughly bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, the Rouge River and the Rouge National Urban Park to the east, Port Union Road to the west and Kingston Road to the north.
Pickering
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario and locality
- Location: Durham, Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.8358° or 43° 50′ 9″ northLongitude
-79.0906° or 79° 5′ 26″ westPopulation
91,800Elevation
214 metres (702 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA PCKOpen location code
87M2RWP5+8QOpenStreetMap ID
node 558715688OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Pickering” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Pickering”
- Arabic: “بيكرينغ”
- Asturian: “Pickering”
- Atikamekw: “Pickering”
- Bulgarian: “Пикъринг”
- Catalan: “Pickering”
- Cebuano: “Pickering”
- Chinese: “皮克灵”
- Chinese: “皮克靈”
- Chinese: “皮克靈市”
- Chinese: “碧谷靈”
- Czech: “Pickering”
- Danish: “Pickering”
- Dimli (individual language): “Pickering, Ontario”
- Dimli (individual language): “Pickering”
- Dutch: “Pickering”
- Finnish: “Pickering”
- French: “Pickering”
- German: “Pickering”
- Greek: “Πίκερινγκ”
- Hebrew: “פיקרינג”
- Hungarian: “Pickering”
- Italian: “Pickering”
- Japanese: “ピカリング”
- Korean: “피커링”
- Luxembourgish: “Pickering”
- Malagasy: “Pickering”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Pickering”
- Ossetian: “Пикеринг”
- Persian: “پیکرینگ، انتاریو”
- Persian: “پیکرینگ”
- Polish: “Pickering”
- Portuguese: “Pickering”
- Russian: “Пикеринг (Онтарио)”
- Russian: “Пикеринг”
- Serbian: “Пикеринг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pickering”
- Slovak: “Pickering”
- South Azerbaijani: “پیکرینق، اونتاریو”
- South Azerbaijani: “پیکرینق”
- Spanish: “Pickering (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Pickering”
- Swahili: “Pickering, Ontario”
- Swahili: “Pickering”
- Swedish: “Pickering, Ontario”
- Swedish: “Pickering”
- Tagalog: “Pickering, Ontario”
- Tagalog: “Pickering”
- Turkish: “Pickering, Ontario”
- Turkish: “Pickering”
- Ukrainian: “Пікерінг”
- Urdu: “پکرنگ، اونتاریو”
- Volapük: “Pickering”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pickering, Ontario”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pickering”
- Welsh: “Pickering”
- Western Panjabi: “پکرنگ، اونتاریو”
- Western Panjabi: “پکرنگ”
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