FoundLocally.com Media Inc. has just launched a new community information portal catering to Oshawa & Durham Region in Ontario, Canada’s Golden Horseshoe region.
Oshawa, ON July 31, 2007 (PRURGENT.COM) -- FoundLocally.com Media Inc. has just launched a new community information portal catering to Oshawa & Durham Region in Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe region. The 7-year-old company now has 24 sites servicing major cities and communities across Canada from Victoria, BC to St John’s, Newfoundland FoundLocally sites consistently attract more than 15 million visitors a year.
The http://Oshawa.FoundLocally.com site covers the Oshawa and the Durham Region including the communities of Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Bowmanville, and Uxbridge. These are often considered “bedroom communities” in the Greater Toronto Area (“GTA”). The site also covers the nearby vacation & recreation areas including the Trent-Severn Canal & Kawarthas cottage country northeast of Oshawa, and the Quinte / Prince Edward County area to the east.
This sites adds to the FoundLocally’s coverage of communities in Southern Ontario, including Barrie-Muskoka, Niagara Falls, Hamilton Oakville-Halton, and Mississauga-Peel.
FoundLocally’s portal sites (http://FoundLocally.com) provide comprehensive information about each community including travel, entertainment, shopping, neighborhoods, sports, education and government. They are an excellent trip-planning resource for both business and leisure travelers. Site visitors can browse about a thousand pages of background information, pictures and maps about each community, and popular resources like weekly ski reports, movie show times and golf courses listings.
The sites also include a useful business directory where visitors can search for local businesses by name, category, or location. The free business listings are entered by businesses themselves and they provide descriptions, contact details and web site links. FoundLocally.com is a popular marketing tool for small businesses (often run from a home phone or cell phone) and therefore excluded from the phone directory. Registered businesses & community groups can post jobs, events, special offers and news announcements. To add themselves, local organizations click on “Free Listings”.
Communities now covered by FoundLocally.com include: Victoria, Greater Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Okanagan-Shuswap, Banff & The Rockies, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste Marie, Sudbury, Barrie-Muskokas, Niagara Region, Hamilton, Oakville-Halton, Missisauga-Peel, Oshawa-Durham, Ottawa-Gatineau, Fredericton, Charlottetown, Halifax, and St John’
Website: http://Oshawa.FoundLocally.com | 
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