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Whitby

town in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada
Place Town Q386338

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, lower-tier municipality of Ontario[10]
Inception
1855[17]
Official website
www.whitby.ca[18]

Location

Country
Canada[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 43.880°, -78.942°
Located in or next to body of water
Lake Ontario[3]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Regional Municipality of Durham[1]
Shares border with
Oshawa, Pickering, Ajax, Scugog[11][12][13][14]

Population and size

Area
146.5 (146.5–146.7, n=3)[31][32][33]
Elevation above sea level
+91[30]
Population
28k (28k–139k, n=10)[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28]

Codes

Postal code
L1M – L1R[16]
More facts +3
Contains settlement
Brooklin[29]
Head of government
Nicholas W. Brown, Desmond G. Newman, Bob Attersley, Pat Perkins, Don Mitchell, Elizabeth Roy[4][5][6][7][8][9]
Legislative body
Whitby Town Council[15]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 18
VIAF cluster ID
127770252
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n85081440
GND ID
10196176-5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Downtown Whitby, Ontario, March 9 2026 (03).jpg ↗
CGNDB unique ID
FDCYE
Freebase ID
/m/01glps
GeoNames ID
6180170
J9U entity ID
987007557650205171
MusicBrainz area ID
3ddc9998-9f74-4870-80ee-a9996e961727
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2408838
RKD thesaurus ID
42112
Statistics Canada Geographic code
3518009
Show all 18 identifiers +6
Topic's main category
Category:Whitby, Ontario
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10045735
UN/LOCODE
CAWHI
Who's on First ID
101736397
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJdCpjKM6vtjDbWdX6kVYP
Yale LUX ID
place/e5a6ad67-8477-41bb-beb3-dceb5da6e0ae

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🔗 Connections
People born here 26
Pierce Lepage, Andrew Martin, Kailen Sheridan, Jessica Klimkait, May Irwin, Melissa Molinaro, Dyshawn Pierre, Kelita Zupancic +18 more
Shares border with 4
Oshawa, Pickering, Ajax, Scugog
← Shares border with 4
Oshawa, Pickering, Ajax, Scugog
People who died here 2
George Reiffenstein, Leslie McFarlane
Residents 2
Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, Alex Lamontagne
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Whitby, Ontario
Contained subdivisions 1
Whitby GO Station
Country 1
Canada
Head of government 1
Bob Attersley
Instance of 1
town
Located in or next to body of water 1
Lake Ontario
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Regional Municipality of Durham
Topic's main category 1
Category:Whitby, Ontario
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Whitby, Ontario
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Whitby, Ontario
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Regional Municipality of Durham
← Filming location 1
Naturally, Sadie
← Narrative location 1
Naturally, Sadie
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Related Entities

Canada Lake Ontario Oshawa

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . vitacollections.ca. vitacollections.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . worldpostalcode.com. worldpostalcode.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . Canada 2021 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . Canada 2016 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . Canada 2011 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . Canada 2006 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . Canada 2001 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . Canada 1996 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [25] ↑ . Canada 1991 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . Canada 1986 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . www12.statcan.gc.ca. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [28] ↑ . publications.gc.ca. publications.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . Canada 2021 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . Canada 2016 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . Canada 2011 Census. www12.statcan.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9d ago · Gelli1742 · 2026-10-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Postal code → L1M – L1R
    "Created claim: Postal code: L1M – L1R"
  2. 9d ago · Gelli1742 · 2026-10-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → town, lower-tier municipality of Ontario
    "Changed claim: Official website: http://www.whitby.ca/"
  3. 6w ago · ~2026-50977-55 · 2026-09-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → town, lower-tier municipality of Ontario
    "Created claim: Instance of: historical country"
  4. 18w ago · Amqui · 2026-07-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → 1855
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Whitby, Ontario
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Whitby, Ontario
    Legislative body → Whitby Town Council
    + 14 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Contains settlement: Brooklin"
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