Richmond Hill (2011 population 185,541) is a town located in the southern portion of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area and is bounded by Bloomington Rd. (Aurora town limit) to the north, York Regional Road 7 (Vaughan city limit west of Yonge St., Markham city limit east of Yonge St.) to the south, Bathurst St. (Vaughan city limit) to the west, and Ontario Highway 404 (Markham city limit) to the east. Its southern limit is about 4 kilometres (3 miles) north of the Toronto city limit, Steeles Avenue, and approximately 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the downtown core of Toronto. The town extends 14 kilometres (9 miles) north-south and 7 kilometres (3.5 miles) east-west. It is the third most populous municipality in York Region and the 28th most populous municipality in Canada.
Population: 185,541
Latitude: 43° 52' 16.00" N
Longitude: -79° 26' 14.10" W
The Albert and Temmy Latner Jewish Public Library in Toronto was founded in 1941 as the Jewish Public Library by bookseller Ben Zion Hyman. The library has had several locations throughout its history. In 1983 it settled in its current location at 4…
High Park Forest School, located just inside the main entrance of High Park from Bloor Street West in Toronto, Canada, was first created around the beginning of the 1900s.
Henry Kelsey Senior Public School is a public middle school established in 1971 in the Toronto District School Board located in the Agincourt neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after Henry Kelsey, the first European known to have…
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Hare Krishna Temple is located at 243 Avenue Road, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Happy Valley is a sparsely populated ecologically sensitive area located in King Township, Ontario, Canada.
Grace Church on-the-Hill is an Anglican Church of Canada parish in Toronto, Ontario. It is featured in the novel A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, and is a member of the Churches on the Hill group.
The Gerstein Science Information Centre is the University of Toronto's flagship library supporting the sciences and health sciences. The largest science and health science academic library in Canada, Gerstein has a collection of over 945,000 print v…
German Mills Creek is a river in the municipalities of Markham, Richmond Hill, Toronto and Vaughan in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Great Lakes Basin and is a left tributary of the East Branch Don River. It originate…
Frederick Horsman Varley Art Gallery is an art gallery in Markham, Ontario, Canada. It is named after Frederick Varley, an artist from the Group of Seven. The gallery is located on Main Street in Unionville. The gallery, which spans 13,935 m2 and in…
Etienne Brulé Park is located in the Humber River valley just north of Bloor Street West in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is named after Étienne Brûlé, an early French explorer in the Toronto area.
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Deer Park United Church began in 1881 as Deer Park Presbyterian Mission, and the first building was constructed on the northwest corner of Yonge Street and St Clair, now home of an office tower containing several radio stations, including CFRB, 99.9…
Crawford Street Bridge is one of two known bridges that once spanned over Garrison Creek valley (the actual creek disappeared as brick sewer in 1885 ) in Toronto, Canada, and buried intact in the 20th century. The bridge shares design features with …
Consulium Place is an office complex in Scarborough City Centre in Toronto.
The Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (Tanz CRND) is a research institute at the University of Toronto, under the umbrella of the Faculty of Medicine, with a focus on the spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases.
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (College St. Site) is a psychiatric hospital in Toronto, Ontario.
Centennial GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Markham, Ontario in Canada. It is a stop on the Stouffville line train service.