Pickering
Toronto's eastern neighbor
Pickering is a surname, most notably associated with Edward Charles Pickering, the American astronomer who directed Harvard College Observatory and pioneered stellar classification.
The name also belongs to several places in England and Canada.
The Pickering nuclear plant sits on Lake Ontario.
Historic English county
- EnglandLargest British country
- market townSettlement with regular trading
- North YorkshireCounty in northern England
- ScarboroughEnglish coastal resort town
Whitby · parish · village · countryside · agriculture · farming · railway · tourism
Study of family descent
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- familyRelated people together
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
pedigree · descendants · ancestors · relatives · kin · bloodline · forebears · patronymic
Stable dispersed mixture
- stabilizationProcess of becoming steady
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- chemistryStudy of substances' interactions
- physicsScience of matter and energy
spectroscopy · Harvard · astronomy · classification · stellar · catalog · photometry · scholarship
Yorkshire
Historic English county
- EnglandLargest British country
- market townSettlement with regular trading
- North YorkshireCounty in northern England
Scarborough · Whitby · parish · village · countryside · agriculture · farming · railway · tourism · community
genealogy
Study of family descent
heritage · pedigree · descendants · ancestors · relatives · kin · bloodline · forebears · patronymic · dynasty
colloid
Stable dispersed mixture
- stabilizationProcess of becoming steady
- researchSystematic fact-finding effort
- chemistryStudy of substances' interactions
physics · spectroscopy · Harvard · astronomy · classification · stellar · catalog · photometry · scholarship
- Mangomango, Alphonso, Kent, mango tree, ripe mango
- English TownsRichmond, Whitby, Windermere, Buxton, Matlock
- OntarioToronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton
- Yorkshire PlacesYork, Bradford, Hull, Wakefield, Doncaster
- Durham RegionOshawa, Whitby, Ajax, Brock
- Vernon ParishHicks, Simpson, Evans, Fullerton
Pickeringurban core
Central metropolitan area
city centre · Bay Street · Manhattan · inner city · metropolis
PickeringMississauga
Ontario lakefront municipality
Oakville · Burlington · Milton · Brampton