Claremont Enquirer

Claremont Ontario Canada

 

Claremont is a Southern Ontario community located in the north part of the City of Pickering, Ontario, Canada. Historically, Claremont was part ofPickering Township, Ontario County, Ontario[2] until 1974 when Ontario County was amalgamated into the Regional Municipality of Durhamestablished at that time.

 

How to get there: Access to and traffic through Claremont increased greatly with the completion of the eastern extension of the Highway 407 highway, terminating at the Brock Road exit which opened in 2001.

The Havelock Subdivision of the Canadian Pacific Railway runs through Claremont. This line is used for freight traffic, but there have been proposals for the return of passenger service as part of aGO Transit expansion to Peterborough.

Claremont is located 20 km northwest of Oshawa and about 55 km northeast of downtown Toronto.

 

Future Airport: In 1972, the Government of Canada expropriated 7,530 ha of land just west of Claremont for a possible future airport.

Indeed, by the late-1990s, the Greater Toronto Airport Authority (GTAA) there were plans initiated to build the airport, to be named the Pickering International Airport which would be constructed to relieve congestion at Pearson International Airport, located some 70 km to the southwest. This new airport was also going to become the main cargo facility for the Greater Toronto Area.

But air traffic at Pearson declined in the years to follow and is only slowly returning (although it has not reached) to previous passenger volumes.

Also, terminal expansion at Pearson and the massive Cargo infield development by the GTAA have further delayed Pickering Airport from becoming a reality, at least in the near future. But in 2005, there has been renewed discussion about airport construction. The plan anticipates 11.9 million passengers per year (or 32,600 per day) by 2032.[4] A confidential "needs analysis study" was completed by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority for the federal government in May 2010; in summer 2010 Transport Canada began a "due diligence review."[5]

The current landholders, mostly rural farmers are leasing the land from the federal government. Claremont is the closest community to the future airport/terminal building locations.