Buttonville is a suburban
planned neighbourhood from a former
police village
A police village was a form of municipal government that was used in the province of Ontario, Canada in the early 19th century if the finances or the population of an area did not permit the creation of a village.
Formation
In the early 19th Centu ...
in the city of
Markham Markham may refer to:
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Biology
* Markham's storm-petrel (''Oceanodroma markhami''), a seabird species found in Chile and Colombia
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, Canada, west of the larger
Unionville neighbourhood. the former hamlet and police village named after its founder,
John Button.
About 30,000 residents live in the area, which is located along the
Woodbine Avenue corridor from approximately
Highway 7 in the south to
Sixteenth Avenue in the north. The
Rouge River is in the northeast and
Buttonville Municipal Airport and
Highway 404 are in the west, with three interchanges. The residential area is located in the eastern, northeastern, and the northern sections, and the industrial area is to the west and the south down to Highway 7.
The area is home to many technology companies near the airport, which incidentally is the location from which weather reports are taken for
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by the
Department of National Defence.
There is talk about renaming the community to the John Button Community after its founder since there has been confusion between Unionville and Buttonville, which is popularly considered to be part of Unionville.
History
The area was first settled by
William Berczy who got an original
Crown grant
The Crown Estate is a collection of lands and holdings in the United Kingdom belonging to the British monarch as a corporation sole, making it "the sovereign's public estate", which is neither government property nor part of the monarch's priva ...
of land. The
police village
A police village was a form of municipal government that was used in the province of Ontario, Canada in the early 19th century if the finances or the population of an area did not permit the creation of a village.
Formation
In the early 19th Centu ...
in Markham Township was named after John Button (b. 1772) who bought property here in 1808. The area's name first appeared in 1851 when a post office was granted to John Button and William Morrison. The name was chosen instead of Millbrook, which had been unofficially used since 1834. John Button's descendants owned a number of lots in what is today Buttonville. By 1878 the village had a post office, a
gristmill
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, a wagon maker, a school, a Lutheran church and a Methodist church.
[For a fuller history, cf. Isabel Champion, ed., ]
Markham: 1793-1900
' (Markham, ON: Markham Historical Society, 1979), pp. 228-231; 138; 158. See also the detailed 1878 map,
Township of Markham
" ''Illustrated historical atlas of the county of York and the township of West Gwillimbury & town of Bradford in the county of Simcoe, Ont.'' (Toronto: Miles & Co., 1878). Buttonville Community Hall was relocated from
L'Amoreaux
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in
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from what was a Methodist chapel c. 1840s and closed in 1938.
Unionville housing developments did not began until the 1960s near Cachet Woods at Woodbine Avenue and Major Mackenzie Drive, and the industrial area began to appear further south. In the 1980s housing developments came to the western part of Markham along with the industries which later flowed with technological and financial companies including
Allstate. Buttonville was first accessed when Highway 404 opened several interchanges in the 1970s. Between 1994 and 1996, more houses continued northeast of Buttonville and a few years later, north of the airport and more housing continued until 2004.
Geography
*Population:
**1990: about 10,000
**2002: about 30,000
Farmlands formerly surrounded Buttonville and between 1980 and 2000, the farmlands were developed. Forests were also found around Buttonville, especially to its south. .
Climate
Transportation
*
Buttonville Municipal Airport is located at 16th Avenue and Highway 404
Public transit in Buttonville is served by:
*
York Region Transit
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YRT operates 65 full-time, rush hour and limited routes, 35 school services, and six Viva bu ...
/
Viva Rapid Transit
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routes
Viva Purple
Viva Purple is a line on the Viva bus rapid transit system in York Region, Ontario, Canada. The route primarily runs in an east–west direction along the Highway 7 Rapidway in Markham and Richmond Hill. It is operated by Tok Transit under co ...
, 1 Highway 7 (both serving Highway 7), 85 Rutherford-16th (Sixteenth), and 24 Woodbine (Woodbine) operate regular bus service.
The neighbourhood is served by one major highways and several arterial roads:
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Highway 404 runs north–south on the west side of and connected to east-south streets
*
Highway 7 runs east–west on the south side.
*
Sixteenth Avenue runs east–west on the north side.
*
Woodbine Avenue runs north–south through its centre. The historic settlement is located along it south of Sixteenth Avenue.
Nearest communities
*
Richmond Hill, west
*
Unionville, east
*
Milliken, south
*
Stouffville, north
Education
* Buttonville PS
* YRDSB Museum and Archives housed in 1850 Buttonville Schoolhouse
References
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Neighbourhoods in Markham, Ontario