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, Canada.

History

Originally named ''Four Corners'' and ''Hackett's Corners'' (after William Hackett owner of a general store), it was renamed as ''Queensville'' in 1843 to honour

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Overview

Among the private homes, the village proper contains the Queensville Cemetery, a post office, a

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, and a complex containing a fire hall, a community centre, a public park with

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s and playground.

Guy Paul Morin Guy Paul Morin is a Canadian who was wrongly convicted of the October 1984 rape and murder of his nine-year-old next-door neighbour, Christine Jessop of Queensville, north of Toronto, Ontario. DNA testing led to a subsequent overturning of t ...

and Christine Jessop were neighbours in Queensville in 1984, and

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once owned a home approximately 1 km south of Queensville. At one time, there were plans to build Ontario's first private university in Queensville. The site for the proposed university would have been east of Leslie on the north side of Queensville side road. It was expected that the university would occupy and employ 1,000 people.East Gwillimbury would welcome new university
/ref> Queensville was home to the largest Antique Mall in York Region. The mall closed in the fall of 2019.

Geography

Statistics Canada 2006 census population for all of East Gwillimbury 21,069. *Population approximately 3% of total East Gwillimbury population 632 *Name of inhabitants: - Queensvillians

Surrounding communities

* Holland Landing, to the west * Keswick, to the north * Mount Albert, to the east * Sharon, to the south

History

Overview

Geography

Surrounding communities

References

See also