Oshawa

American

[osh-uh-wuh] / ˈɒʃ ə wə /

noun

a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, NE of Toronto, on Lake Ontario.

Oshawa British

/ ˈɒʃəwə /

noun

a city in central Canada, in SE Ontario on Lake Ontario: motor-vehicle industry. Pop: 139 051 (2001)

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General Motors produces pickup trucks at a factory in Oshawa, Ontario.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

They both grew up in Canada: Park in Lindsay, Ontario, and Stella, an hour’s drive away in Oshawa.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

Broadbent represented his blue-collar hometown of Oshawa, Ontario, in the House of Commons for 21 years, including 14 as national leader of the New Democratic Party, from 1975 to 1989.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2024

Officers from the Durham Regional Police spotted the runaway animal on a property near Oshawa in Canada.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2023

The village of Oshawa, in this township, now contains upwards of one thousand inhabitants, more than double the number the whole township could boast of when I first set foot on its soil.

From Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) by Samuel Strickland

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