Oshawa

At the mouth of Oshawa Creek, a marshy inlet on Lake Ontario marked the southern end of a route towards Lake Scugog. Mississauga travellers used the carrying place to move between the lake and the inland waterways. French fur traders established a post near the shore in the eighteenth century, and the inlet became a meeting place for exchange.

Around 1790 the settler Benjamin Wilson and his family reportedly sheltered in the remains of the abandoned post. A road built in 1822 ran roughly parallel to the older carrying-place trail, giving settlers a route between the harbour and the interior. At the crossing with the Kingston road a small settlement grew around Edward Skae's store; it was known as Skae's Corners by the 1830s.