Live board · Pickering
What Pickering is getting done
Real open tasks from members in Pickering, each with a budget attached. Post yours in a minute — local Taskers send fixed-price offers, and your money stays with Taskly until it's done.
Pickering is a lakeshore town with a rural back half. South of the 401 is 1970s and 1980s subdivision plus the towers at the GO station; north of it is Seaton, a greenfield community still being built, and beyond that farmland, hamlets and federal land that has been held for fifty years.
No open tasks in Pickering at this moment — be the first: post yours and nearby Taskers across the GTA can send offers today.
What Pickering is made of
Seaton is a construction site the size of a town
Seaton is a planned community going up on greenfield north of the 401, and much of it is occupied while the rest is still being built. That means addresses map services have not caught up with, roads that end without warning, and a concentration of first-occupancy work — blinds, mounting, assembly, yard finishing — in one place. Nowhere else in Durham is being built at that scale at once.
A generating station and a national park bracket the town
Pickering has a nuclear generating station on its waterfront and Rouge National Urban Park along its western boundary. Both are large and neither carries through traffic, so the crossings between Pickering and Scarborough are fewer than the map suggests. Travel time out of west Pickering is worth checking before two bookings are put on the same afternoon.
The rural north is a separate service area
North Pickering is farmland, conservation land and hamlets — Claremont, Whitevale, Greenwood — much of it on land the federal government expropriated in 1972 for an airport that was never built and still owns. Addresses up there are on well and septic, the driveways are long, and winter access is a real question. It is a different task from the same work in Pickering City Centre.
Tasks come from Bay Ridges, Liverpool, Amberlea, Rougemount, Seaton and Dunbarton.