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 In 1760, French Sulpician missionaries from Ganatsekwyagon reached the Duffins Creek area, but did not settle there. After the British conquest of New France in 1760, the area became part of the Pickering Township. Mike Duffin, an Irish fur trader, is the earliest known European to have settled in the area, in the 1770s. The conversion of the main local trail into the Kingston Road in 1799 contributed to increased settlement in what is now Ajax.  In the first half of the 19th century, the Pickering Village, now a neighbourhood in Ajax, evolved as the major population centre of the Township, supported by a timber and agricultural boom. In 1807, Timothy Rogers led Quaker families to settle in the area, and built saw and grist mills on the banks of the Duffins Creek.  The War of 1812 increased military traffic on the Kingston Road, resulting in a better-maintained road, and leading to further development of the area. In the mid-19th century, Audley, a smaller community, emerged as a stopover on the route to the port of Whitby.  By the 20th century, much of the area of present-day Ajax had been converted into farmland. In 1926, James Tuckett of Toronto bought lakeshore farmland, and started the development of the Pickering Beach cottage community, which later became a permanent settlement. After the start of the World War II in 1939, the Government of Canada expropriated most of the farmland in what is now southern part of Ajax, to establish the Defence Industries Limited Pickering Works munitions plant.  Operated by Defence Industries Limited (DIL), the government-owned plant employed workers from different parts of Canada.   The plant site, along with the residences and the facilities established for the workers, evolved into a self-contained community, whose residents called it a "village". As part of a contest, the DIL employee Frank Holroyd suggested the name "Ajax" for the community, in honour of the British warship HMS Ajax which had fought against the powerful Nazi battleship Admiral Graf Spee at the Battle of the River Plate in 1939. After the plant shut down in 1945, the site was used as a war surplus warehouse and sales outlet, a University of Toronto campus (1946-1949),  and a holding camp for war refugees from Europe (1949-1953).  The government mandated the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) to develop the site and its surrounding area into a modern industrial town. George Finley, the CMHC manager of the area, planned new housing subdivisions, commercial centres, and industrial areas. Spink's mill in Pickering Village (1906), now part of Ajax Farmland expropriated for the DIL plant (1939) Workers assemble shells at the DIL plant (1940s) University of Toronto Ajax Division (1946-1949) In 1950, Ajax was incorporated as an Improvement District, a form of local administration managed by the Lieutenant Governor's appointees. The Improvement District Board created the community's first by-laws and hired employees for the local administration. In August 1954, as a result of a campaign by the Ajax Citizens Association, the Ontario Municipal Board declared Ajax a town, granting it full municipal status. The first town council members were elected on 11 December 1954, and assumed office on 1 January 1955. The first mayor of the town was Benjamin de Forest Bayly, better known as Pat Bayly. In the early 1970s, the Metropolitan Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (MTRCA) acquired much of the land along the lakeshore. In the Pickering Beach area, several homes, a church, and a school were demolished to make way for a parkland. Waterfront Park On 1 January 1974, Ajax became a part of the newly formed Regional Municipality of Durham, which manages functions common to multiple municipalities in the region. 

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The boundaries of the town of Ajax were expanded to include several areas of the former Pickering Township, including Pickering Village, Pickering Beach, and Audley. Geography View of Lake Ontario as seen from Ajax Water Supply Plant located on Ajax Waterfront Ajax is bordered to the west and north by the City of Pickering, to the east by the Town of Whitby and to the south by Lake Ontario. Neighbourhoods The town is made up of the following neighbourhoods: Applecroft Audley North Audley Road Business Area Audley South Carruthers Creek Carruthers Creek Business Area Central Employment Area Clover Ridge Deer Creek Discovery Bay Downtown Duffins Bay Duffins Crossing Hermitage Lake Vista Lakeside Meadow Ridge Memorial Village Midtown Nottingham Pickering Beach Riverside Salem Business Area Salem Heights South Greenwood Southwood Village, better known as Pickering Village Westney Heights