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— 2 — machines were moved out and the buildings were converted to classrooms and laboratories. The residences that had housed war workers now housed University students. All the facilities of the University of Toronto were duplicated at Ajax. By 1949, the last year of the University of Toronto, Ajax Division, some 7000 engineering students had received their basic training here. But what was to become of Ajax? Many many people who worked or lived in Ajax during D.I.L. or University days wanted to remain here. Due largely to the vision of George W. Finley of Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Ajax became a planned modern community using the war time base for its post-war foundation. The sword was now beaten into ploughshares. Post-war Ajax began its growth. Industry and people came from everywhere to take advantage of the many assets of Ajax — its schools, its churches, its hospital, its steam plant, its water and sewage treatment plants, its comprehensive planning, its geography — close to Toronto but not part of it — and its friendly, industrious, involved citizens. Politically, from 1941 to 1950, Ajax was virtually a "Crown Colony" with no local municipal government of any kind. Then in 1950, as a result of a petition of its citizens, Ajax by order of the Ontario Municipal Board became the Corporation of the Improvement District of Ajax with three trustees appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. The first trustees were: Benjamin de Forest Bayly, Chairman; John Mills, Vice-Chairman, and W. W. Rideout. These trustees acted as Council, School Board, Library Board and every other Board that a municipality required. The Chairman performed all the duties of a Mayor. It fell to these men to enact the first by-laws