After teaching classics in the College of St. Omer, he was sent to Durham district in 1644, and about 1651 was moved to the London mission.

In 1974 it was merged with Durham Rural District and Brandon and Byshottles Urban District to form the City of Durham district of County Durham.

The council provides subsidies as long as companies are based in Durham district and employ less than 100 people in a manufacturing or service industry closely linked to the manufacturing sector.

Shepherd was a Chartered Accountant based in Port Perry, Ontario when he became the Liberal party candidate for Durham electoral district in the 1993 general election.

For information on the Durham federal electoral district, see Durham (electoral district).

Its former area was merged with Brandon and Byshottles Urban District and Durham Rural District, to became the new City of Durham non-metropolitan district.

The riding was created in 2003 and consists of 68 percent of the Whitby-Ajax district, 20 percent of the Oshawa district and three percent of the Durham district.

He died in the Durham district on 14 May (O.S.) 1640.

It was created under the Local Government Act 1894 based on the Durham rural sanitary district and covered an area around the City of Durham, which was a municipal borough.

It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1894 and went to form part of the new City of Durham district.