City in Ontario, Canada
Vaughan
(
vawn
) (2021 population 323,103)
[1]
is a city in
Ontario
, Canada. It is located in the
Regional Municipality of York
, just north of
Toronto
. Vaughan was the fastest-growing municipality in Canada between 1996 and 2006 with its population increasing by 80.2% during this time period and having nearly doubled in population since 1991.
[2]
It is the fifth-largest city in the
Greater Toronto Area
, and the
17th-largest city in Canada
.
Toponymy
[
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]
The township was named after
Benjamin Vaughan
, a
British
commissioner who signed a peace treaty with the
United States
in 1783.
History
[
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]
In the late pre-contact period, the
Huron
-Wendat people populated what is today Vaughan. The Skandatut ancestral Wendat village overlooked the east branch of the
Humber River
(Pine Valley Drive) and was once home to approximately 2,000 Huron in the sixteenth century.
[3]
The site is close to a Huron
ossuary
(mass grave) uncovered in
Kleinburg
in 1970, and one kilometre north of the Seed-Barker Huron site.
[4]
The first
European
to pass through Vaughan was the
French
explorer
Etienne Brule
, who traversed the Humber Trail in 1615. However, it was not until
townships
were created in 1792 that Vaughan began to see European settlements, as it was considered to be extremely remote and the lack of roads through the region made travel difficult.
Despite the hardships of
pioneer
life, settlers came to Vaughan in considerable numbers. The population grew from 19 men, 5 women, and 30 children in 1800 to 4,300 in 1840. The first people to arrive were mainly
Pennsylvania Germans
, with a smaller number of families of
English
descent and a group of
French
Royalists
. This migration from the
United States
was by 1814 superseded by immigrants from
Britain
. While many of their predecessors had been agriculturalists, the newer immigrants were highly skilled tradespeople, useful for a growing
community
.
Among the facilities established by this group were a number of hamlets, the oldest of which was
Thornhill
, where a sawmill was erected in 1801, a grist mill in 1815, and had a population of 300 by 1836. Other such enclaves included
Kleinburg
, Coleraine,
Rupertville
[5]
(Maple)
,
Richmond Hill
, Teston,
Claireville
,
Pine Grove
, Carrville, Patterson, Burlington,
Concord
, Edgeley, Fisherville, Elder's Mills, Elgin Mills, Jefferson, Nashville, Purpleville, Richvale, Sherwood, Langstaff, Vellore
, and
Burwick (
Woodbridge
)
.
[6]
In 1846, the Township was primarily agricultural but had a population of 4,300. There were six grist mills and 25 saw mills.
[7]
By 1935, there were 4,873 residents.
However,
World War II
sparked an influx of immigration, and by 1960, the population stood at 15,957. The ethnocultural composition of the area began to change with the arrival of different groups such as
Italians
,
Jews
and
Eastern Europeans
.
Incorporated in 1850 as
Vaughan Township,
a municipal government was established.
Vaughan Road
was a historic road constructed in 1850 that linked Vaughan Township with
Toronto
. It incorporated parts of present-day
Dufferin Street
north of
Eglinton Avenue
in Toronto, though all that remains of it today is the separate alignment farther south, running through the eastern half of the former
City of York
.
[8]
In 1971, the new regional government of
York Region
was established, acquiring policing and welfare services from the communities it served; simultaneously, the township merged with the Village of
Woodbridge
to form the Town of Vaughan. In 1991, it changed its legal status to City of Vaughan.
[9]
Two F2 tornadoes tore through the city of Vaughan during the
Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak
on August 20, 2009. Premier
Dalton McGuinty
and Mayor
Linda Jackson
toured the destruction the next day and reported 200 homes in critical shape and as many as 600 additional homes likely to be demolished. The tornadoes also ripped up trees, flipped cars, and left thousands of people without electricity. Vaughan declared a
state of emergency
because of the widespread damage.
[10]
[11]
No deaths were reported from the tornadoes, but one man who was injured in the storms suffered a heart attack the following morning.
[12]
North American telephone customers placing calls to Vaughan may not recognize the charge details on their billings. Although Vaughan has been a single municipality since 1971, the local
incumbent local exchange carrier
,
Bell Canada
, splits the city into three historical rate centres?
Kleinburg
,
Maple
and Woodbridge. Part of the
Thornhill
rate centre extends into Vaughan. Indeed, Vaughan does not even appear in the telephone book.
Mayor and councillors
[
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]
Vaughan is governed by a
ten-member council
comprising a mayor, four regional councillors, and five local councillors. The mayor, elected at large, is the head of the council and a representative on
York Region Council
. The four regional councillors are also elected at large, and serve on both the city council and York Regional Council. Five local councillors are also elected, one from each of Vaughan's five wards, to represent those wards on Vaughan Council.
City councillors meet at Vaughan City Hall, located in Maple. The city's City Hall was opened on September 25, 2011, and is named in memory of late Mayor
Lorna Jackson
. The new Civic Centre is one of the first in Canada to conform to a
LEED
Gold Standard, the second highest environmental classification available.
[13]
Vaughan is the first municipality in Ontario to have a Youth City Councillor. The youth city councillor is appointed as a non-voting member of Council every six months to represent the youth of Vaughan. Vaughan council originally rejected the proposal of a youth councillor but, after the Vaughan Youth Cabinet amended its proposal, Council accepted the recommendation.
[14]
After serving as mayor for nine years,
Lorna Jackson
saw the Town of Vaughan become incorporated as the City of Vaughan.
[15]
Following the death of Mayor Lorna Jackson in 2002,
Michael Di Biase
was appointed mayor by Vaughan council by virtue of his position as one of two regional councillors representing Vaughan, Joyce Frustaglio was the other regional councillor. Gino Rosati, a Vaughan local councillor, was subsequently appointed by Vaughan Council to fill Di Biase's position as regional councillor and a by-election was held to fill Rosati's local councillor's position which was won by
Linda Jackson
, the daughter of Mayor Jackson. Di Biase first became involved in the city's politics in 1985, when he was elected as a local councillor in 1985. Di Biase retained the mayorship in the
2003 municipal election
, defeating challenger Robert Craig.
In the
municipal election
on November 13, 2006, Di Biase was narrowly defeated by Linda Jackson, who was sworn in as mayor on December 4, 2006. On June 18, 2008, an audit of Jackson's 2006 campaign finances found that the politician exceeded her legal spending limit of $120,419 by at least $12,356, or 10 per cent. The auditors, LECG Canada Ltd., say that amount could almost double if what they believed to be unreported contributions in kind at various election events but couldn't prove are later verified.
[16]
They also found other apparent contraventions of the
Canada Elections Act
, including at least five instances where associated companies made donations that exceeded the normal $750 donation limit per company.
On June 24, 2008, Vaughan Council voted unanimously to hire a special prosecutor to consider laying charges against Mayor Linda Jackson under the Municipal Elections Act in reaction to the auditors' report. Council hired Timothy Wilkin, "an expert in municipal law" to decide what if any charges are to be laid.
[17]
If Jackson is charged and found guilty, she would face punishments ranging from fines to removal from office.
[
needs update
]
Subsequently, an audit was conducted on former Mayor Di Biase's 2006 election campaign funds. This exposed 27 contraventions under the Elections Act, along with a $155,000 anonymous cash payment made to his lawyer to cover his legal fees. Di Biase has refused to disclose who made this payment.
[18]
On 25 October 2010, longtime
MP
Maurizio Bevilacqua
was elected mayor and he assumed office in December 2010.
On 24 October 2022, former
Ontario Liberal Party
leader
Steven Del Duca
was elected mayor and he assumed office on November 15, 2022.
Geography
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]
Vaughan is bounded by
Caledon
and
Brampton
to the west,
King
and
Richmond Hill
to the north,
Markham
and Richmond Hill to the east, and
Toronto
? in the dissolved cities of
Etobicoke
and
North York
, to the south.
Communities and identity
[
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]
The city is made up of nearly a dozen historic communities. Likely as a result of the municipality being established when it was still largely a rural area with scattered settlements, most residents (and even non-residents) identify more with the larger communities than they do with the city as a whole and have greatly expanded their areas, and the City officially designates five in the urban area as major communities, with all of the built-up areas of the city considered as being within one of them. This includes corporations such as
Bell Canada
, which uses the original community
rate centres
and lists them separately in the phone book, resulting in local calling areas being different throughout the city.
- Woodbridge
: North/South - Major Mackenzie
[19]
/Steeles, East/West - Hwy 400/Hwy 50
- Maple
: North/South - King Vaughan Line/Rutherford, East/West - Bathurst/Hwy 400
- Thornhill
: North/South - Hwys. 7 and 407 (Major Mackenzie for the area west of Bathurst)/Steeles, East/West - Yonge/Dufferin
- Concord
: North/South - Rutherford/Steeles, East/West - Dufferin/Hwy 400
- Kleinburg
: North/South - King Vaughan Line/Major Mackenzie, East/West - Hwy 400/Hwy 50
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
[
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]
The
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
is a new 179 hectare (442 acre)
city centre
under development around the intersection of
Highway 7
and
Jane Street
, at the site of the former hamlet of
Edgeley
.
When the Township of Vaughan officially became a town in 1971, it was made up four historic communities (Maple, Kleinburg, Thornhill, and Woodbridge) large enough to have their own village or town centres. Vaughan committed to building a new business and commercial core distinct from all of them. This commitment became policy in 1998 when Official Plan Amendment 500 called for the Vaughan Corporate Centre, as it was then branded, to become a focal point for business activity and major commercial development.
[20]
It is served by the
Vaughan Metropolitan Centre
subway station, which is the northwestern terminus of
Line 1 Yonge?University
of the
Toronto subway
system. It is also a major transit hub for
York Region Transit
(YRT), as well as
Viva
and
Zum
bus rapid transit services.
[21]
Climate
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Vaughan, like much of the
Greater Toronto Area
, features a
continental climate
Dfb
and has four distinct seasons.
Climate data for
Woodbridge
(
Vaughan
)
Climate ID: 6159575; coordinates
43°47′N
79°36′W
/
43.783°N 79.600°W
/
43.783; -79.600
(
Woodbridge
)
; elevation: 164 m (538 ft); 1981?2010 normals
|
Month
|
Jan
|
Feb
|
Mar
|
Apr
|
May
|
Jun
|
Jul
|
Aug
|
Sep
|
Oct
|
Nov
|
Dec
|
Year
|
Record high °C (°F)
|
17.0
(62.6)
|
15.5
(59.9)
|
26.5
(79.7)
|
31.5
(88.7)
|
33.0
(91.4)
|
36.0
(96.8)
|
39.0
(102.2)
|
37.2
(99.0)
|
36.1
(97.0)
|
30.6
(87.1)
|
25.0
(77.0)
|
19.5
(67.1)
|
39.0
(102.2)
|
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)
|
?2.5
(27.5)
|
?0.5
(31.1)
|
4.3
(39.7)
|
12.0
(53.6)
|
18.8
(65.8)
|
24.1
(75.4)
|
26.9
(80.4)
|
25.4
(77.7)
|
20.9
(69.6)
|
13.9
(57.0)
|
6.9
(44.4)
|
0.8
(33.4)
|
12.6
(54.7)
|
Daily mean °C (°F)
|
?6.6
(20.1)
|
?4.8
(23.4)
|
?0.4
(31.3)
|
6.6
(43.9)
|
12.9
(55.2)
|
18.1
(64.6)
|
20.8
(69.4)
|
19.6
(67.3)
|
15.4
(59.7)
|
9.0
(48.2)
|
3.1
(37.6)
|
?2.8
(27.0)
|
7.6
(45.7)
|
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)
|
?10.7
(12.7)
|
?9.2
(15.4)
|
?5.2
(22.6)
|
1.2
(34.2)
|
6.8
(44.2)
|
12.0
(53.6)
|
14.7
(58.5)
|
13.8
(56.8)
|
9.8
(49.6)
|
4.0
(39.2)
|
?0.8
(30.6)
|
?6.4
(20.5)
|
2.5
(36.5)
|
Record low °C (°F)
|
?34.5
(?30.1)
|
?30.0
(?22.0)
|
?29.4
(?20.9)
|
?17.2
(1.0)
|
?6.7
(19.9)
|
?1.7
(28.9)
|
2.8
(37.0)
|
?0.6
(30.9)
|
?5.0
(23.0)
|
?11.7
(10.9)
|
?18.3
(?0.9)
|
?30.0
(?22.0)
|
?34.5
(?30.1)
|
Average
precipitation
mm (inches)
|
50.3
(1.98)
|
44.2
(1.74)
|
49.2
(1.94)
|
63.3
(2.49)
|
79.1
(3.11)
|
76.3
(3.00)
|
70.4
(2.77)
|
80.4
(3.17)
|
84.6
(3.33)
|
66.5
(2.62)
|
78.3
(3.08)
|
57.4
(2.26)
|
799.8
(31.49)
|
Average rainfall mm (inches)
|
20.4
(0.80)
|
23.2
(0.91)
|
31.4
(1.24)
|
59.6
(2.35)
|
79.1
(3.11)
|
76.3
(3.00)
|
70.4
(2.77)
|
80.4
(3.17)
|
84.6
(3.33)
|
66.0
(2.60)
|
71.1
(2.80)
|
34.6
(1.36)
|
697.0
(27.44)
|
Average snowfall cm (inches)
|
29.9
(11.8)
|
21.1
(8.3)
|
17.8
(7.0)
|
3.7
(1.5)
|
0.0
(0.0)
|
0.0
(0.0)
|
0.0
(0.0)
|
0.0
(0.0)
|
0.0
(0.0)
|
0.45
(0.18)
|
7.2
(2.8)
|
22.8
(9.0)
|
102.8
(40.5)
|
Average precipitation days
(≥ 0.2 mm)
|
13.5
|
10.3
|
10.7
|
11.8
|
12.0
|
10.8
|
9.5
|
9.6
|
10.6
|
12.7
|
13.1
|
12.8
|
137.4
|
Average rainy days
(≥ 0.2 mm)
|
4.2
|
4.4
|
6.4
|
10.7
|
12.0
|
10.8
|
9.5
|
9.6
|
10.6
|
12.6
|
11.1
|
6.5
|
108.3
|
Average snowy days
(≥ 0.2 cm)
|
10.2
|
6.8
|
5.1
|
1.5
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.0
|
0.23
|
3.0
|
7.5
|
34.3
|
Source:
Environment and Climate Change Canada
[22]
|
Services
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Health care
[
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]
Vaughan was the largest city in Canada without a hospital
[23]
until the 2021 opening of
Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital
on
Major Mackenzie Drive
north of Canada's Wonderland.
[24]
Its planning began in 2007.
[25]
The provincial
government of Ontario
approved construction of the hospital in July 2011, and a tender for bids to construct it was issued in 2014 or 2015.
[26]
Land preparation for construction began in the summer of 2014.
[27]
Construction on the grounds began in October 2016. The expected date of completion was late 2020.
[28]
It is part of a regional hospital system with a "single governance, administration and medical staff"
[26]
managed by
Mackenzie Health
. The hospital officially opened on 6 June 2021.
Fire services
[
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]
Transportation
[
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]
Vaughan offers a complex transportation infrastructure, which includes
highways
,
public transit
,
regional roads
, municipality-funded roads, and
train services
.
Demographics
[
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]
Historical populations
Year
| Pop.
| ±%
|
---|
1971
| 16,189
| ?
|
---|
1976
| 18,120
| +11.9%
|
---|
1981
| 30,386
| +67.7%
|
---|
1986
| 67,595
| +122.5%
|
---|
1991
| 115,477
| +70.8%
|
---|
1996
| 132,549
| +14.8%
|
---|
2001
| 182,022
| +37.3%
|
---|
2006
| 238,866
| +31.2%
|
---|
2011
| 288,301
| +20.7%
|
---|
2016
| 306,233
| +6.2%
|
---|
2021
| 323,103
| +5.5%
|
---|
[29]
[30]
[31]
[32]
[33]
[1]
|
In the
2021 Census of Population
conducted by
Statistics Canada
, Vaughan had a population of
323,103
living in
103,914
of its
107,159
total private dwellings, a change of
5.5% from its 2016 population of
306,233
. With a land area of 272.44 km
2
(105.19 sq mi), it had a population density of
1,186.0/km
2
(3,071.6/sq mi) in 2021.
[34]
Median age as of 2021 was 41.6, on par with the Ontario median age of 41.6.
[1]
Language
[
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]
According to the 2021 Census,
English
is the
mother tongue
of 45.2% of the residents of Vaughan.
Italian
is the mother tongue for 9.8% of the population, followed by
Russian
(6.0%) and
Mandarin
(4.0%). Each of
Spanish
,
Persian
,
Cantonese
,
Urdu
,
Punjabi
,
Hebrew
,
Tagalog (Filipino)
,
Vietnamese
,
Portuguese
, and
Korean
have a percentage ranging from 2.9% to 1.3%, signifying Vaughan's high linguistic diversity.
[1]
Religion
[
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]
As of 2021, most reported religion among the population was
Christianity
(53.1%), with
Catholicism
(38.6%) making up the largest denomination. This was followed by
Judaism
(13.2%),
Islam
(7.4%),
Hinduism
(4.8%),
Buddhism
(2.4%) and
Sikhism
(1.8%). 17.0% of the population did not identify with a particular religion.
[1]
Ethnicity
[
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]
Ethnic Origin (2021)
|
Population
|
Per cent
|
Italian
|
85,030
|
26.5
|
Chinese
|
27,235
|
8.5
|
Jewish
|
25,325
|
7.9
|
Russian
|
18,245
|
5.7
|
Canadian
|
17,780
|
5.5
|
East Indian
|
17,330
|
5.4
|
Polish
|
9,885
|
3.1
|
Filipino
|
9,140
|
2.9
|
Portuguese
|
8,300
|
2.6
|
English
|
8,265
|
2.6
|
Vietnamese
|
7,305
|
2.3
|
Ukrainian
|
7,080
|
2.2
|
Iranian
|
6,935
|
2.2
|
Irish
|
6,715
|
2.1
|
Scottish
|
5,895
|
1.8
|
As of 2021,
visible minorities
make up 35.4% of the population.
[1]
Panethnic
groups in the City of Vaughan (2001?2021)
Panethnic
group
|
2021
[35]
|
2016
[36]
|
2011
[32]
|
2006
[37]
|
2001
[38]
|
Pop.
|
%
|
Pop.
|
%
|
Pop.
|
%
|
Pop.
|
%
|
Pop.
|
%
|
European
[a]
|
187,985
|
58.5%
|
195,830
|
64.39%
|
195,770
|
68.38%
|
174,485
|
73.31%
|
146,965
|
80.93%
|
South Asian
|
35,890
|
11.17%
|
30,610
|
10.06%
|
27,725
|
9.68%
|
20,370
|
8.56%
|
10,665
|
5.87%
|
East Asian
[b]
|
33,855
|
10.54%
|
26,420
|
8.69%
|
18,035
|
6.3%
|
13,070
|
5.49%
|
8,550
|
4.71%
|
Middle Eastern
[c]
|
17,625
|
5.49%
|
12,975
|
4.27%
|
9,000
|
3.14%
|
5,825
|
2.45%
|
2,250
|
1.24%
|
Southeast Asian
[d]
|
16,920
|
5.27%
|
15,525
|
5.1%
|
16,320
|
5.7%
|
9,655
|
4.06%
|
4,725
|
2.6%
|
African
|
10,510
|
3.27%
|
8,325
|
2.74%
|
7,765
|
2.71%
|
6,110
|
2.57%
|
3,580
|
1.97%
|
Latin American
|
8,320
|
2.59%
|
7,360
|
2.42%
|
6,055
|
2.11%
|
4,810
|
2.02%
|
2,165
|
1.19%
|
Indigenous
|
675
|
0.21%
|
630
|
0.21%
|
555
|
0.19%
|
320
|
0.13%
|
180
|
0.1%
|
Other/
Multiracial
[e]
|
9,540
|
2.97%
|
6,465
|
2.13%
|
5,080
|
1.77%
|
3,355
|
1.41%
|
2,515
|
1.38%
|
Total responses
|
321,315
|
99.45%
|
304,145
|
99.32%
|
286,300
|
99.31%
|
238,005
|
99.64%
|
181,600
|
99.77%
|
Total population
|
323,103
|
100%
|
306,233
|
100%
|
288,301
|
100%
|
238,866
|
100%
|
182,022
|
100%
|
Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses
|
Crime
[
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]
The total crime against persons in 2017 was 619.43 per 100,000 population, with 1.49 per 100,000 being violations causing death.
[39]
Organized crime
also has a notable presence in Vaughan.
[40]
Notable incidents include mob shootings outside the Terrace Banquet Hall in July 2013 resulting in two deaths, one of which was mobster
Salvatore Calautti
[41]
and the Regina Sports Cafe in April 2014 resulting in the death of
Carmine Verduci
,
[42]
as well as the Woodbridge Cafe shooting at Islington Avenue and Highway 7 in June 2015.
[43]
Three killings in March 2017; on March 14, a 28-year-old Vaughan woman was shot as she sat in a car parked outside of a lighting business on Caster Avenue, on March 23, a shooting of a 26-year-old
Ajax
man at Jane Street and Highway 7,
[44]
and on March 30, a private social club shooting near Martin Grove Road and Highway 7.
[45]
In April 2017, Mayor
Maurizio Bevilacqua
spoke after the third March murder, stating people "should not live in fear".
[46]
[47]
On July 18, 2019, the
York Regional Police
announced the largest organized crime bust in Ontario, part of an 18-month long operation called Project Sindicato that was also coordinated with the
Italian State Police
.
[48]
York Regional Police had arrested 15 people in Canada and seized $35 million worth of homes, sports cars and cash in a major trans-Atlantic probe targeting the most prominent wing of the
'Ndrangheta
in Canada (the
Siderno Group
), allegedly headed by Angelo Figliomeni of Vaughan. On July 14 and 15, approximately 500 officers raided 48 homes and businesses across the GTA, seizing 27 homes worth $24 million, 23 cars, including five
Ferraris
, and $2 million in cash and jewelry.
[49]
The charges laid included tax evasion, money laundering, defrauding the government and participating in a criminal organization.
[50]
The investigation was motivated by a series of violent incidents in Vaughan in 2017 according to CBC News, "including an attempted murder, drive-by shootings and arsons". The charges laid included tax evasion, money laundering, defrauding the government and participating in a criminal organization.
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Culture
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Attractions
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]
- Baitul Islam Mosque
, headquarters of the
Canadian
Ahmadiyya Muslim community
- Boyd Conservation Area
, park located east of Islington Avenue, south of Rutherford Road.
- Canada's Wonderland
, Canada's largest
amusement park
, located on the east side of
Highway 400
between Rutherford Road and Major Mackenzie Drive.
- Kortright Centre for Conservation
, located between Rutherford Road and Major Mackenzie Drive east of Islington Avenue.
- McMichael Canadian Art Collection
, located in Kleinburg.
- Vaughan Mills
, a large shopping mall opened in 2004, which includes
Legoland Discovery Centre
[54]
- Reptilia Zoo
, a 25,000 sq ft Reptile Zoo and Education Centre located near Vaughan Mills and Canada's Wonderland
- J. E. H. MacDonald House
Sports
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]
Vaughan is home to many amateur sports teams for a variety of sports, with an organization running a league for each of the
four major sports
. There are also rep and select levels of these sports where the Vaughan Rangers, Vaughan Panthers, and Vaughan Kings represent the city in youth hockey,
[55]
[56]
the Vaughan Vikings represent the city in baseball,
[57]
the Vaughan Rebels represent the city in football,
[58]
and the Vaughan Panthers represent the city in basketball.
[59]
Vaughan also has a high softball following, with the Vaughan Vikings and Woodbridge Warriors offering house league and rep opportunities, as well as and adult World Series Slo Pitch league.
[60]
The city also hosts the Vaughan Flames, a youth organization exclusively for woman's hockey.
[61]
The name also belonged to the former CWHL hockey team that folded in 2010. Additionally, the
Vaughan Vipers
formerly played in the
Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League
. In 2012, the Vipers were decommissioned and withdrew from their league.
[62]
The city is also home to numerous golf and country clubs. These include
The National Golf Club of Canada
, one of Canada's highest ranking golf clubs.
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Soccer
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]
Vaughan SC, Woodbridge SC and Kleinburg Nobleton SC offer house league and rep programs for youth soccer, as players for
Vaughan Azzurri
Woodbridge Strikers
KNSC Lions respectively. These team names are also used for the city's two League1 Ontario teams. Additionally, Vaughan is home to the
Ontario Soccer Association
, the largest sports organization in Canada.
[64]
The OSA has over 400,000 registered players, and runs leagues across the entire province.
[65]
Vaughan is also home to the
Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum
.
[66]
Vaughan is also home to the semi-professional York Region Shooters from the Canadian Soccer League.
Prior to 2018, Vaughan also played home to Toronto FC II, the United Soccer League affiliate team for Toronto FC.
[67]
Because the stadium's expansion to include more seating fell through, the team announced it would be moving to play in
BMO Field
/
Lamport Stadium
for the 2018 season.
[68]
Media
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]
Print
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]
Vaughan's weekly newspaper the
Vaughan Citizen
was first published in 2001 and has a circulation of roughly 59,000. The neighbourhood of Thornhill has its own weekly paper, the
Thornhill Liberal
. From 1878 to 2000 Vaughan's news was covered by
The Liberal
published in Richmond Hill.
[69]
Lo Specchio
is an Italian-language newspaper published in Vaughan since 1984.
[70]
City Life
is a Vaughan-specific lifestyle magazine published bi-monthly by Dolce Publishing since 2003.
[71]
Film
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]
Kleinburg
was once home to the
Cinespace Film Studios
, a centre for television and motion picture production. The popular children's TV show
The Forest Rangers
, starring
Gordon Pinsent
, was filmed here between 1963 and 1965. In 2006, the movie
The Sentinel
was filmed at the
McMichael Art Gallery
.
More recently, Vaughan City Hall has served as a film location, when it was used as the new Red Center (the Rachel and Leah Center) in season 2 of Hulu's
The Handmaid's Tale
. It also served as the United Federation of Planets building and Office of the President in the season 1 finale of
Star Trek: Discovery
.
Education
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]
York University
in
North York
,
Ontario
lies on the
Toronto
side of the
Toronto
-Vaughan border. It is a major comprehensive university, with more than 43,000 students enrolled through 10 different faculties.
There are also a number of elementary and high schools in Vaughan, which operate under the
York Region District School Board
, the
York Catholic District School Board
,
Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir
(French-language Catholic schools) and
Conseil scolaire Viamonde
(French-language public schools). There is also a
Waldorf school
, the Toronto Waldorf School, which offers early childhood, elementary and accredited high school programs.
The American private Catholic
Niagara University
runs a branch campus in Vaughan, its first university in the city.
[72]
The Ontario branch of Niagara University opened a 12,000 square foot facility at Expo City in downtown Vaughan. This campus will offer Master of Science in Education and Bachelor of Professional Studies in Education programs.
Economy
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]
Within the Greater Toronto Area, Vaughan is the third-largest employment center, after Toronto and Mississauga. With a real
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
of $20.6 billion in 2018, it is the largest contributor (35%) to
York Region
's economy.
In 2018, the city was home to 12,105 businesses employing more than 222,000 people. Between 2008 and 2018, Vaughan's average annual employment growth was 3.2% and its business growth was 2.9%, exceeding provincial and national rates.
Manufacturing continues to dominate the local economy, accounting for 22% of total employment, followed by Construction (13%), Retail Trade (12%), Wholesale Trade (10%) and Transportation and Warehousing (6%). Small businesses with fewer than 20 employees account for 81% of all business establishments.
In 2018, the Accommodation and Food Services industry accounted for $295 million of Vaughan's real gross domestic product. Vaughan currently has 12 hotels and four motels with a total of 1,845 rooms. Development applications have been submitted that have the potential to add another 1,200 rooms to current supply in the coming years. Major tourism operators include
Canada's Wonderland
,
Vaughan Mills
, the
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
, the
Kortright Centre for Conservation
,
LEGOLAND Discovery Centre
,
Reptilia
, the mainstreet and village cores of
Kleinburg
,
Thornhill
, and
Woodbridge
.
Construction activity, as measured by value of building permits, has exceeded the $1 billion mark in eight of the last ten years.
As of 2018, the largest employers in Vaughan are:
Vaughan is home to 184 Canadian or regional headquarters, including:
Archaeology
[
edit
]
The Seed-Barker archeological site is a 16th-century
Iroquois
village on the
Humber River
in Vaughan. It has been used as a summer school field trip site since 1976 by the Boyd archeological field summer school for high school students. The school is sponsored by the York Region district school board in co-operation with the
Royal Ontario Museum
and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). In 1895, a local farmer began finding Iroquoian artifacts in the area. In 1895, Roland Orr recognized the classic ecological features favoured by the Iroquoian people for their villages: floodplains along a river, an easily defensible plateau and nearby forests. The Iroquois used the floodplains to plant maize, beans and squash,
: 1
known as the three sisters. In the 1950s, University of Toronto professor Norman Emerson and the students excavated artifacts from the Seed-Baker site. Since 1975, more than a million artifacts were discovered and nineteen
longhouses
were excavated revealing that the village was occupied by the Iroquois from c. 1500 - 1550 AD.
[73]
Notable people
[
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]
Order of Vaughan
[
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]
In 2016, to celebrate the city's 25th anniversary, Mayor Bevilacqua introduced the Order of Vaughan. This award is meant to be the highest honour bestowed by the city.
[74]
Initially, 25 recipients were given the award as a reflection of the anniversary; however, the city announced in 2017 that up to ten new individuals would receive the award each year thereafter.
[75]
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The award is meant to recognize people in the categories of: accessibility, arts and entertainment, athletics, business, education, environment and spirituality, equity and diversity, health and wellness, media and communications, not-for-profit, philanthropy, public service, and science and technology.
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Twin cities
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]
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See also
[
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]
Notes
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]
- ^
Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
- ^
Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
- ^
Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
- ^
Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
- ^
Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority,
n.i.e.
" and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.
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