Maple is a neighbourhood in
Vaughan
Vaughan () (2021 population 323,103) 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 increas ...
,
York Region
The Regional Municipality of York, also called York Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada, between Lake Simcoe and Toronto. The region was established after the passing of then Bill 102, An Act to Establish The Regional M ...
,
Ontario
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, Canada.
It is located northwest of
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
. Maple was founded as the village of Maple, located at the intersection of Major Mackenzie Drive and Keele Street.
Geography
Maple is located in the
Golden Horseshoe
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of
Southern Ontario
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. To the northeast of is the
Oak Ridges Moraine
The Oak Ridges Moraine is an ecologically important geological landform in the Mixedwood Plains of south-central Ontario, Canada. The moraine covers a geographic area of between Caledon and Rice Lake, near Peterborough. One of the most sign ...
, which supplies a lot of water to the
Greater Toronto Area.
The west branch of the
Don River
The Don ( rus, Дон, p=don) is the fifth-longest river in Europe. Flowing from Central Russia to the Sea of Azov in Southern Russia, it is one of Russia's largest rivers and played an important role for traders from the Byzantine Empire.
Its ...
rises to the northwest and flows 1 km west of Maple. Several creeks are to the east and the
Black Creek begins slightly west of Vellore.
Humber River flows in the west, the Don River flows to the northern and the eastern part.
York University
York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,0 ...
Keele Campus lies to the south of Steeles Avenue, within the city of Toronto.
Climate
Maple has a
continental climate moderated by the
Great Lakes
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and influenced by warm, moist
air mass
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es from the south, and cold, dry air from the north.
Transportation
Maple's central cross streets are Major Mackenzie Drive and
Keele Street
Keele Street is a north–south road in Toronto, Vaughan and King in Ontario, Canada. It stretches , running from Bloor Street in Toronto to the Holland Marsh. South of Bloor Street, the roadway is today known as Parkside Drive, but was originall ...
. The nearest major highway exit is 3 km west at
Highway 400 and Major Mackenzie, with access also at Highway 400 and Rutherford Rd.
Industrial areas are south and west of Maple, closer to
Highway 407
The following highways are numbered 407:
Canada
* Manitoba Provincial Road 407
* Newfoundland and Labrador Route 407
* Ontario Highway 407
Costa Rica
* National Route 407
Iceland
* Route 407 (Iceland)
Italy
* State road 407
Japan
* Japa ...
, and the
Canadian National
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CN ...
yards north of
Highway 7 (Ontario)
King's Highway 7, commonly referred to as Highway 7 and historically as the Northern Highway, is a provincially maintained highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. At its peak, Highway 7 measured in length, stretching from Highway&nbs ...
. Maple is located 13 km NE of
Woodbridge, 11 km E of
Kleinburg
Kleinburg is an unincorporated village in the city of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is home to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, an art gallery with a focus on the Group of Seven, and the Kortright Centre for Conservation. In 2001, the villag ...
8 km S of
King City, 6.5 km from downtown
Richmond Hill 12 km NW of
Thornhill N of
Highway 401
King's Highway 401, commonly referred to as Highway 401 and also known by its official name as the Macdonald–Cartier Freeway or colloquially referred to as the four-oh-one,
is a controlled-access 400-series highway in the Canadian provinc ...
, and SSE of
Barrie
Barrie is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada, about north of Toronto. The city is within Simcoe County and located along the shores of Kempenfelt Bay, the western arm of Lake Simcoe. Although physically in Simcoe County, Barrie is politically ...
.
Maple is accessed by the
GO Transit
GO Transit is a regional public transit system serving the Greater Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, Canada. With its hub at Union Station in Toronto, GO Transit's green-and-white trains and buses serve a population of more than seven millio ...
Barrie commuter line, with rail stations at
Maple
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and
Rutherford GO stations.
Toronto Transit Commission
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is the public transport agency that operates bus, subway, streetcar, and paratransit services in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, some of which run into the Peel Region and York Region. It is the oldest and larges ...
,
York Region Transit
York Region Transit (YRT) is the public transit operator in York Region, Ontario, Canada. Its headquarters are in Richmond Hill, at 50 High Tech Road.
YRT operates 65 full-time, rush hour and limited routes, 35 school services, and six Viva bu ...
, and GO Transit buses serve the area. The Maple GO Station, built in 1903 by the
Grand Trunk Railroad
The Grand Trunk Railway (; french: Grand Tronc) was a railway system that operated in the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and in the American states of Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The rail ...
, is a federally designated a heritage railway station.
Maple formerly had a small airport in the west, the
Maple Airport
Maple Airport was a small airfield in the Township of Vaughan (now a city) in York Region, Ontario, Canada that was open from 1955 until 1987. The airport, established by Marion Alice Orr, one of Canada's first women pilots, consisted of two runwa ...
, which closed down in 1987. The runways ran diagonally like the letter x, the runway from northwest to southeast was the longer, and the other ran southwest to northeast. Streets like
Avro,
Lockheed, and
Mustang
The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the Western United States, descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but because they are descended from once- domesticated animals, the ...
on the site of the airport are named after airplanes.
In 2006 Maple gained bus-rapid-transit service under York Region's Transit (YRT) system.
History
The founding families of Maple were the Noble and the Rupert families. The Nobles settled around the present Major Mackenzie Drive and Keele Street intersection in the early half of the 19th century. In 1852 the town was called Noble’s Corner after Joseph Noble, the first Postmaster. Later, a Doctor Rupert lived in Maple and was such a respected member of the community that the town’s name was changed to Rupertsville. Local folklore associates the name "Maple" with the numerous
maple trees once found along Keele Street in the town. Maple was dominated for most of the 19th century by the more prosperous towns of Sherwood and
Teston
Teston /ˈtiːstən/ The Place Names of Kent,Judith Glover,1976,Batsford. or /ˈtiːsən/ BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names — is a village in the Maidstone District of Kent, England. It is located on the A26 road out of Maidston ...
. Keele Street was then a boggy swamp area that forced most travelers to take alternate routes. Once the
Ontario, Huron, and Simcoe Railway built a line through Maple, the town began to grow. The station was then called
Richmond Hill. The
Canadian National Railway bought the line in early 1900 and the station was renamed Maple.
Maple, as a centre of agriculture, was enhanced with the proximity of the
CNR line, as well as the growing urban development of Toronto. A major Ontario Department of Lands and Forests office was situated there in the 1960s. Housing developments began in the 1960s in the southwest, as well as replacement of homes damaged in the August 1962 fire and explosion at an industrial propane depot. Massive housing developments did not began until the 1980s in the northwest, near
McNaughton.
A
gravel pit
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was in the area north of Major Mackenzie, from the CN line to Dufferin Street. This became the
Keele Valley Landfill, which was owned and operated by
Metropolitan Toronto
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, and later by the city of Toronto. The landfill began receiving much of the
GTA's garbage when the
Beare Road Landfill in
Scarborough Scarborough or Scarboro may refer to:
People
* Scarborough (surname)
* Earl of Scarbrough
Places Australia
* Scarborough, Western Australia, suburb of Perth
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reached capacity and was decommissioned. The Keele Valley Landfill was closed on
New Year's Eve
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2002 when it reached its capacity. The site has become reserved for the "Eagle's Nest"
golf course
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, and other developments which will occur in the future once the buried waste decomposes sufficiently.
Canada's Wonderland
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first opened in 1981.
Maple's proximity to Toronto and its major transportation corridors, and Vaughan's own political support for development, have led to the heavy development and population growth. In 1993, housing development began in the area of what was the
Maple Airport
Maple Airport was a small airfield in the Township of Vaughan (now a city) in York Region, Ontario, Canada that was open from 1955 until 1987. The airport, established by Marion Alice Orr, one of Canada's first women pilots, consisted of two runwa ...
. In 1995, it expanded to the western part of Maple. Between 1997 and 1999, urban developments reached the northwestern part of Maple and Melville and the Don to the train tracks. Developments also reached the northeastern part and the southeastern part. Megalot houses began developing northeast of Maple near Dufferin in the late-1990s. The housing developments began up to the Highway 400 in the northwest. Housing developments have begun near Vellore.
, developments reached the northwestern part as far as Highway 400, Teston Road, the CN line and the southwest. Most of the housing developments in the early-2000s reached Pine Valley Drive in the southwest in Vellore Village and Vellore Woods. The housing and urban developments is currently in the west between Highway 400 and Weston and Major Mackenzie and will reach to Teston.
Maple is home to one of the largest mosques in Canada.
Baitul Islam Mosque is located on Jane Street south of Teston Road, where a planned subdivision named Peace Village was established in 1999.
Political
Maple is within the Ontario provincial electoral riding of
King-Vaughan, and the MPP is
Stephen Lecce
Stephen Francis Lecce (; born November 26, 1986) is a Canadian politician who has served as the Ontario minister of education since June 20, 2019. A member of the Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, Lecce is the member of Provincial Parliame ...
. Maple is in the federal riding of
King-Vaughan and the MP is Anna Roberts
Nearest communities
*
Concord
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Meaning "agreement"
* Pact or treaty, frequently between nations (indicating a condition of harmony)
* Harmony, in music
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, south
*
Woodbridge, west
*
Kleinburg
Kleinburg is an unincorporated village in the city of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. It is home to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, an art gallery with a focus on the Group of Seven, and the Kortright Centre for Conservation. In 2001, the villag ...
, north west
*
King City, north
*
Richmond Hill, east
*
Thornhill, southeast
Notable people
*
Max Aitken
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, better known as ''First Baron Beaverbrook'', was born in the St Andrew's
Presbyterian Church Manse in 1879. His father left for a congregation in
Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to:
*Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England
*Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England
*Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area in Australia, named after Newcastle ...
New Brunswick
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the following year. There is a plaque outside the Church, noting that as Lord Beaverbrook, he donated a
carillon.
*
Massimo Bertocchi, Olympic
decathlete.
*
Luca Caputi
Gianluca Caputi (born October 1, 1988) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and current head coach with the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League.
Playing career Junior hockey Mississauga/Niagara IceDogs (2004–2008)
...
-
ice hockey
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player
IK Oskarshamn
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of the Swedish
HockeyAllsvenskan
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*
Justin DiBenedetto
Justin DiBenedetto (born August 25, 1988) is a Canadians, Canadian former professional ice hockey player. DiBenedetto was drafted 175th overall by the New York Islanders during the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. DiBenedetto was born in Maple, Ontario.
Pl ...
- ice hockey player
*
Phil Di Giuseppe
Phillip Di Giuseppe (born October 9, 1993) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 38th overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft.
Early l ...
- ice hockey player drafted into the NHL as the 38th
draft pick in 2012 by the
Carolina Hurricanes
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.
*
Lucas Lessio
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- ice hockey player drafted into the NHL as the 56th
draft pick in 2011 by the
Phoenix Coyotes.
*
Mendelson Joe
Mendelson Joe (born Birrel Josef Mendelson on July 30, 1944) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, painter and outspoken political activist who uses his art to express political themes.
Career
Born and raised in Maple, Ontario and educat ...
- artist was raised in Maple.
*
Adam Mascherin
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- ice hockey player
*
Tyler Medeiros
Tyler Medeiros (born July 11, 1995) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and dancer.
Personal life
Medeiros was born and grew up in Toronto, Ontario, to a Portuguese people, Portuguese father and an Italians, Italian mother. Tyler Medeiros attended ...
- a teen singer born in Maple.
*
Andi Petrillo
Andria "Andi" Petrillo (born April 9, 1980) is a Canadian sports broadcaster. She became the first-ever female member to serve on a full-time basis with the ''Hockey Night in Canada'' studio team.
Career
When she was 19, Petrillo began volunteer ...
- sports anchor was raised in Maple.
* Dr. Fredrick William Routley - practiced medicine in Maple from 1909 to 1912. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Red Cross for 27 years. In 1923 he developed the
Blue Cross Plan which was put into effect in Ontario in 1941. Dr. Routley also helped establish the
Ontario Hospital Association
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History
On ...
in 1923.
*
Martina Sorbara
Martina Sorbara (born November 13, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and frontwoman of the band Dragonette."Naughty sounds from the minister's daughter; DRAGONETTE Singer-songwriter moves to London and gets her groove on". ''Toronto Star'', M ...
, lead singer and songwriter of Juno-Award-winning band
Dragonette
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; grew up on a farm in Maple.
*
Stuck On Planet Earth
Stuck On Planet Earth is a Canadian three piece alternative rock band from Vaughan, Ontario, consisting of Adam Bianchi (vocals and guitar), Al Capo (vocals and bass) and Andrew Testa (drums).
They formed in 2007 and have released four EPs and s ...
- a Canadian independent rock band
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