Whitby

Summary

Whitby is a town^[1]. Whitby ranks in the top 3% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (236 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• Whitby is located in Regional Municipality of Durham^[3].
• Whitby is in the country of Canada^[4].
• Whitby is on the body of water Lake Ontario^[5].
• Whitby's head of government is recorded as Nicholas W. Brown^[6].
• Whitby's head of government is recorded as Q131726115^[7].
• Whitby's head of government is recorded as Bob Attersley^[8].
• Whitby's head of government is recorded as Pat Perkins^[9].
• Whitby's head of government is recorded as Don Mitchell^[10].
• Whitby's head of government is recorded as Elizabeth Roy^[11].
• Whitby's image is recorded as Downtown Whitby, Ontario, March 9 2026 (03).jpg^[12].
• Whitby's instance of is recorded as town^[13].
• Whitby's instance of is recorded as lower-tier municipality of Ontario^[14].
• Whitby's shares border with is recorded as Oshawa^[15].
• Whitby's shares border with is recorded as Pickering^[16].
• Whitby's shares border with is recorded as Ajax^[17].
• Whitby's shares border with is recorded as Scugog^[18].
• Whitby's legislative body is recorded as Whitby Town Council^[19].
• Whitby's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 127770252^[20].
• Whitby's GND ID is recorded as 10196176-5^[21].
• Whitby's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n85081440^[22].
• Whitby's Commons category is recorded as Whitby, Ontario^[23].
• Whitby's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 2408838^[24].
• +1855-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Whitby^[25].
• Whitby's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 43.88, 'lon': -78.94222222222223}^[26].
• Whitby's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01glps^[27].

Body

Founding

+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Whitby^[25].

Why It Matters

Whitby ranks in the top 3% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (236 views/month).^[2] Whitby has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] Whitby is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]