
Unionville is a suburban district and former village in
Markham Markham may refer to:
Biology
* Markham's storm-petrel (''Oceanodroma markhami''), a seabird species found in Chile and Colombia
* Markham's grass mouse (''Abrothrix olivaceus markhami''), a rodent subspecies found on Wellington Island and the ne ...
, Ontario, Canada, 2 km (2.5 mi) northeast of
Downtown Markham
Downtown Markham is the main downtown of Markham, Ontario, Markham, Ontario, Canada. Currently under development, it is located near the historic Unionville, Ontario, Unionville district and serves as the new heart of Markham. Businesses in the ...
(the City of Markham's
modern
Modern may refer to:
History
*Modern history
** Early Modern period
** Late Modern period
*** 18th century
*** 19th century
*** 20th century
** Contemporary history
* Moderns, a faction of Freemasonry that existed in the 18th century
Philosophy ...
downtown), 2 km (2.5 mi) west of
Markham Village
Markham Village ( 2006 population 6,090) is the historic town centre of Markham, Ontario, Canada. Originally settled in 1825, the village, which was originally named Reesorville (in reference to the Reesor family of settlers) sometime after 180 ...
(Markham's historic downtown), and 33 km (20.5 mi) northeast of
Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto is the main city centre of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Located entirely within the district of Old Toronto, it is approximately 16.6 square kilometres in area, bounded by Bloor Street to the northeast and Dupont Street to the nor ...
, centred around the intersection of
Highway 7
The following highways are numbered 7. For roads numbered A7, see list of A7 roads.
Route 7, or Highway 7, may refer to:
International
* AH7, Asian Highway 7
* European route E07
* European route E007
Afghanistan
*Kunduz-Khomri Highway (A7)
...
and
Kennedy Road. The boundaries of Unionville are not well-defined. Several nearby neighbourhoods are claimed to be part of it however, this has been disputed between the various wards.
The Unionville Ratepayers Association designates Rodick Road as its western boundary.
Unionville was founded north of 16th Avenue in 1794 as the farms on and around Kennedy Road.
Main Street Unionville
Main Street Unionville is a collector route that runs through the historical suburban community of Unionville, Ontario, Unionville, in Markham, Ontario, Markham, Ontario, Canada. Like most other Main Streets, the street serves as an important roa ...
; originally part of the course of Kennedy Road, runs through Unionville village, with a new alignment of Kennedy running to the east.
Rouge River runs north of the village and to the southeast.
Highway 404 is to the west, with the nearest interchange with
Highway 407
King's Highway 407, commonly referred to as Highway 407 and colloquially as the "four-oh-seven", is a 400-series highway in the Canadian province of Ontario. Comprising a tolled privately leased segment and a publicly owned segment, the route s ...
is south on Kennedy Road. Unionville is predominantly residential except for the south central industrial area, which is slated for massive intensification.
Tourism is a major part of Unionville's economy. The village itself still resembles the small town that developed over a century or so starting in the early 1840s (when Ira White erected his Union Mills) through the middle to late 20th century. Now a 'heritage conservation district', it attracts thousands of visitors each year — as of 2006 it boasted nine restaurants, including three pubs. Main Street (originally the laneway from the village's first grist mill) also has a number of "century homes" dating back to the 19th century. Each year, thousands of people visit Unionville during the Unionville Festival.
The main street has been a stand-in for fictional Connecticut town
Stars Hollow
Stars Hollow is a fictional town in Connecticut featured on the television show ''Gilmore Girls'' and the Netflix miniseries ''Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life''. It is the town in which the protagonists List_of_Gilmore_Girls_characters#Lorela ...
during the first season of ''
Gilmore Girls
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'' television show, and for other television and movie backdrops.
Most of the historic buildings in Unionville are included in
List of historic buildings in Markham, Ontario
This is a list of historic building in Markham, Ontario, Canada. The earliest structures that were built in Markham, Ontario, Markham, Ontario originated from indigenous settlements in the region, including the Iroquois, the Huron-Wendat Nation, ...
.
History
Unionville's name was derived from American-born Ira Allen White's Union Mills built in 1839, which in turn was named for the
Act of Union 1840
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of
Upper Canada
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and
Lower Canada
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. White would remain in the area at least up to 1860 but by 1878 his property as per York County Atlas belong to Hugh Powell Crosby as White moved to
Yarmouth, Ontario where he died in 1887 (but buried in Cedar Grove Mennonite Cemetery Markham).
William von Moll Berczy brought the first settlers to Markham Township in 1794; they were originally from Germany but first moved to New York State. After arriving here, they acquired large tracts of land near current day Berczy Village at 16th Avenue and Kennedy Road.
Illness and famine in 1795–1796 reduced the population but the others remained on the develop a settlement:
* Johann Niclaus Stober or John Stiver was another Berczy settler who is descendant of Charles and Francis Stiver whom established Stiver Mills
* Philip Eckardt who is a Berczy settler who descendant farmed lands in Markham. Eckardt is tied to the Bethesda Lutheran Church
By 1851, the population was 200, served by a grist mill, a saw mill and two churches (Primitive Methodist and Presbyterian).
Unionville was a
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 ...
within what was then Markham Township within
York County until the end of 1970, at which time the county was reorganized into
Regional Municipality of York
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 ...
. Unionville and the other police village in the township (
Thornhill) as well as the Village of Markham were abolished and amalgamated with Markham Township, which was reincorporated as the Town of Markham (changed to city in 2012),
["Markham to change from town to city"]
CBC News
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, 30 May 2012. with some of the township's lands being ceded to neighbouring Richmond Hill and Whitchurch–Stouffville. The town and the township were named after two different people named "Markham".
A historic concrete bridge carrying Unionville Main Street was built by
Octavius Hicks Octavius Laing Hicks (27 January 1852 – 23 December 1930) was a prominent citizen of Humber Bay in Etobicoke Township. He was born in Dundee, Scotland. He settled in Humber Bay in 1873 and remained there for the rest of his life.
He is best known ...
in 1909.
The name "Unionville" remained a valid postal address until the early 1990s at which time most addresses were changed to "Markham". In 2009, Markham Town Council reinstated the name "Unionville" for that portion of postal addresses within its Ward 3, which lies between Warden, 16th, McCowan and the 407.
However, the Post Office used "Unionville" as the postal address for a larger delivery area that included the farms and later urban areas that it considered to be in Unionville. Unionville's historical boundaries, therefore, may be based on the historic Post Office delivery area for the name "Unionville". These varied somewhat over a century and a half, as neighbouring post offices came and went, but at some time or other the following areas had a Unionville address:
* Highway 7 and southward: all of the area north of
Steeles Avenue
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between
Woodbine Avenue
Woodbine Avenue is a north–south arterial road consisting of two sections in Toronto and York Region in Ontario, Canada.
Route description
The southern section in Toronto runs just under , and begins near Ashbridge's Bay on the shore of Lake ...
on the west and McCowan Road on the east, including both sides of Woodbine, McCowan and Highway 7.
* North of Highway 7: all of the area to 19th Avenue between Warden on the west and McCowan on the east, including both sides of Woodbine, McCowan and 19th.
Unionville has six postal codes, L3P, L3R, L3S, L6C, L6E, and L6G, in its postal service area.

In the 1960s, major housing development came to Unionville and is still ongoing. Having old buildings available at low cost, a number of antique stores sprang up and for a while in the 1970s Unionville ranked high on the list of places to go to get antiques. After the commitment to a bypass was realised, in the 1970s, entrepreneurs appeared. The Old Country Inn opened for business and Old Firehall Sports brought a new clientele to the village. Over the next decades, the typical antique places disappeared, being replaced by higher-end antique and replica outlets, restaurants, pubs, and clothing establishments. Tourism was born. Starbucks appeared in the late 1990s. Many of the buildings have been spruced up, extended and upgraded to meet this new reality. The old original road, to the immediate east of Main Street, has been converted to a large parking lot.
Walking paths through the local conservation lands connect directly to the village roads, one of the most used being the path around Toogood Pond, named after the Toogood family – the pond was originally the mill pond that powered the grist mill in the 1840s and created by flooding a section of Bruce Creek. In the early 20th century the pond was called Willow Pond or Willow Lake and was the home to several small summer cottages on north Main Street. Some had been cottages, for grist mill workers, in their earliest incarnation. Those cottages evolved into homes by the middle of the century, but are almost all gone now being replaced by large spacious expensive homes.
The
Varley Art Gallery
Frederick Horsman Varley Art Gallery, or the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, is an art museum in Markham, Ontario, Canada. The museum is situated in a building on Main Street Unionville. The gallery was named after Frederick Varley, an artist from ...
now stands at the north end of the commercial Main Street and is rapidly becoming a gallery of wide renown. It was started with the contributions of Mrs. McKay, who had supported
Group of Seven
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artist
Fred Varley
Frederick Horsman Varley (January 2, 1881 – September 8, 1969) was a member of the Canadian Group of Seven (artists), Group of Seven.
Career Early life
Varley was born in Sheffield, England, in 1881, the son of Lucy (Barstow) and Samuel James ...
for the later part of his life. Living in her home on Main Street Unionville, he did several paintings that are now part of the Art Gallery collection and the home is now part of the Art Gallery's holdings, being used for small art shows on a regular basis.
The Unionville Arms, a well-known
pub
A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the late 17th century, to differentiate private ho ...
, burnt down on 30 November 2007. It had been in business for 19 years prior. The building itself was over a century old. The legendary building caught fire in the morning, supposedly due to a combination of faulty kitchenware and wiring, and the century-old insulation. The fire was put out three hours later. No one was hurt. The Arms reopened in very much its original appearance, towards the end of December 2008.
The Stiver Mill is a historic building located near the railway tracks on Main Street Unionville. The building was restored in 2014 and is now a community centre. The area around the building has also been modernized for accessibility to both the centre and the train station next to it.
The
killing of Bich-Ha Pan and attempted murder of Hann Pan took place in Unionville on 8 November 2010.
Geography
Along with the village, today Unionville as a whole is an established suburban community. During the period of early urbanization in the 1970s a ban was placed on development for 25 years. Based on the boundaries for Ward 3, Unionville is bounded by Warden Avenue to the west, 16th Avenue to the north, McCowan Road to the east, and Highway 407 to the south, although it is commonly seen to include the surrounding neighbourhoods of
Buttonville,
Angus Glen,
Milliken,
South Unionville
South Unionville is a neighbourhood located in, Markham, Ontario, Canada. It is bounded to the north by Highway 7, south by Highway 407, east by McCowan Road and west to about Kennedy Road. The community is named after its location south of ...
, and even
Downtown Markham
Downtown Markham is the main downtown of Markham, Ontario, Markham, Ontario, Canada. Currently under development, it is located near the historic Unionville, Ontario, Unionville district and serves as the new heart of Markham. Businesses in the ...
. Some land is still vacant on the lands of York Downs Golf which is slated for redevelopment in the coming years. The Highway 7 corridor west of the village will feature redevelopment with several mid rise and high rise buildings which will combine a village and an urban character.
Demographics
Unionville, according to Statistics Canada, in the course of five years between 2006 and 2011, the population steadily increased from 7368 to 8906. In the census data collected, the GNR rate in 2011 appeared as 17.4%.
[(Census 2011, Census 2006)]
Generations
According to statistics Canada, Between 2006 and 2011, the increase in 2nd generation Canadian citizens moved from 970 to 2330 individuals. However, for first generations, the increase was not as drastic as 2nd generation citizens. The increase was from 4955 to 6225.
Citizenships
Residents who had legal citizenship in 2006 were 78% and who didn't were 22%. The numbers obtained indicated residents who were 18 years and above. The 2011 data showed similar, showing increase in one percent, indicated 79% of the population containing citizenship.
Arts and culture
Unlike other communities in Markham, Unionville proper does not have a community centre. Crosby Memorial Arena, an indoor rink built in 1928, is the only major sports venue in the area. The arena is named for the Crosby family of Markham Village, who came to Markham in 1806 and established themselves as farmers, landowners and storekeepers. Residents are within driving distance from
Angus Glen Community Centre,
Markham Pan Am Centre
The Markham Pan Am Centre is a multi-purpose community and aquatics centre located in the new downtown area of Markham, Ontario, Canada.
The facility was designed to host the badminton, table tennis and water polo events for the 2015 Pan Amer ...
and
Milliken Mills Community Centre.

The
Unionville Festival was first organized in 1969 to raise awareness and money to fight the provincial plan to reconstruct Main Street as a four-lane Kennedy Road through the middle of the village, destroying it. An interest in history, spurred by the Canadian Centennial Year in 1967, awoke the longtime residents and the new subdivision residents. Slowly, local politicians got on board, and a plan was drawn up to construct a new Kennedy alignment to the east of the historic town center. Today the festival continues to offer visitors access to handcrafts, small vendors, live music and community groups. Virtually none of the businesses from the mid-20th century still exist, having been replaced by restaurants and tourist outlets.
The Unionville Business Improvement Area and its merchants, organize and operate numerous, year-round, admission free, festivals and events. The Merchants of Main Street Unionville BIA is the business association on Main Street Unionville, composed of volunteers from the business community, who work to preserve and promote the historical village of Unionville.
The Unionville BIA's Heritage Committee has seen its volunteers research and produce a self-guided walking tour. They also offer the official walking tours of Main Street Unionville.
Unionville has a number of regular events ongoing throughout the year. Dates for these can be found on the relevant web sites. Here is a sampling:
* Unionville Village Festival – first weekend of June
* Unionville Heritage Festival –
Labour Day
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* Olde Tyme Christmas Candlelight Parade – first Friday of December
* Olde Tyme Christmas Breakfast with Santa – morning after the Parade
*
Canada Day
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– 1 July
* Markham Jazz Festival – August
* Thursday Nights at the Bandstand – all summer long
* Doors Open Markham – usually autumn
* Remembrance Day at the Cenotaph – 11 Nov
Stiver Mills Farmers' Market and Stiver Mills
Stiver Mill hosts a small
farmers' type market ever Sunday from June to October (held indoors in the Mills to December) and operating since 2009.
/ref> The market was founded by Bob Stiver, a descendant of the Stiver brothers.
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The Stiver family has resided in Unionville and Markham since 1794 as part of the wave of migrants brought over by William Berczy
William von Moll Berczy (December 10, 1744 – February 5, 1813) was a German-born Upper Canada pioneer and painter. He is considered one of the co-founders of the Town of York, Upper Canada, now Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Biography
Berczy wa ...
.
The market is located next to the historic Stiver Mill, a grain mill built in 1916 (as well as structures moved from Matthew Grain Company of Toronto) for Charles and Francis Stiver and operated as Stiver Brothers until 1968. Besides grains (as well as seed and feed), the business sold cement, coal and salt.
The site was acquired by the then Town of Markham in 1993 and closed from 2013 to 2014 when the mills structure was restored.
Government
Unionville is (depending on its definition) within the following city wards and political ridings:
* Ward 3; represented by Councilor Reid McAlpine
* Ward 4; represented by Councilor Karen Rea (see discussion of boundaries above)
* Ward 6; represented by Councilor Amanda Yeung Collucci (see discussion of boundaries above)
* Markham—Unionville Markham—Unionville could refer to:
*Markham—Unionville (federal electoral district)
Markham—Unionville is a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Common ...
; provincial electoral riding, represented by Billy Pang (Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario)
* Markham—Unionville Markham—Unionville could refer to:
*Markham—Unionville (federal electoral district)
Markham—Unionville is a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Common ...
; federal electoral riding, represented by Paul Chiang (Liberal Party of Canada
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)
Infrastructure
Transportation
*
Highway 407 ETR
* 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 ...
– bus routes on Highway 7 and 16th Avenue
* Viva – 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 a dedicated right-of-way, dubbed the '' Highway 7 Rapidway'', in Markham and Richmond Hill. ...
route
* GO Train/Bus at Unionville GO Station
Unionville GO Station is a train and bus station in the GO Transit network located in Markham, Ontario, Markham, Ontario, Canada. It is a stop on the Stouffville line. The station is also served by Highway 407 East Express buses, which run westbo ...
*
Highway 7
The following highways are numbered 7. For roads numbered A7, see list of A7 roads.
Route 7, or Highway 7, may refer to:
International
* AH7, Asian Highway 7
* European route E07
* European route E007
Afghanistan
*Kunduz-Khomri Highway (A7)
...
* Toronto Transit Commission
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– bus routes 68 Warden, 43 Kennedy, 17 Birchmount
Education
Primary and secondary schools
York Region District School Board
The York Region District School Board (YRDSB), until 1999, English-language Public District School Board No. 16 is the English-language public school board for the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario, Canada. The York Region District School ...
operates public schools:
* Unionville High School
* Markville Secondary School
Markville Secondary School (commonly known as MSS or Markville) is a public high school located in the community of Unionville, Ontario, Unionville within the city of Markham, Ontario, Markham, Ontario, Canada. It is one of 33 high schools adminis ...
* Bill Crothers Secondary School
Bill Crothers Secondary School is an athletic based high school in the community of Unionville in Markham, Ontario, Canada. It was the newest secondary school in the York Region District School Board for a number of years, since 2008. Named for ...
* Unionville Public School
* William Berczy Public School
* Buttonville Public School
* Central Park Public School
* Coledale Public School
* Parkview Public School
* Unionville Meadows Public School
York Catholic District School Board
The York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB, known as English-language Separate District School Board No. 42 prior to 1999) is the English-language public-separate school district authority for the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario, Cana ...
operates Catholic separate schools
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:
* St. Augustine Catholic High School
* All Saints Catholic Elementary School
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* St. Matthew Catholic Elementary School
* John XXIII Catholic Elementary School
* St. Justin Martyr Catholic Elementary School
Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir
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operates one French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France
** French people, a nation and ethnic group
** French cuisine, cooking traditions and practices
Arts and media
* The French (band), ...
(first language) Catholic separate school:
* Sainte-Marguerite-Bourgeoys French Catholic Elementary School
Private schools:
* Unionville Montessori Private School
Public libraries
A new library, the Markham Public Library
Markham Public Library (MPL) is a library system operated by the municipal government of the City of Markham in Canada. There are eight branches in the city, serving about 250,000 residents in Markham. The libraries are managed by the Administrat ...
(Unionville branch), was completed in 1984, replacing the older Unionville Library, which was renamed the "Old Library Community Centre", and is now used for dance classes, meetings, and a church. The new library occupies 1,300 square metres, and is based on a traditional village square surrounded by eight "houses" of books expressed on the exterior as postmodern Victorian dormers. The library, which contains approximately 100,000 books and audiovisual materials, was designed by architect Barton Myers
Barton Myers (born November 6, 1934) is an American architect and president of Barton Myers Associates Inc. in Santa Barbara, California. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Myers is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and wa ...
.
Notable people
* Hayden Christensen
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of Star Wars
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fame attended Unionville High School.
* Emmanuelle Chriqui
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– actress who appeared in the television series ''Entourage
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Arts and entertainment
* L'entourage, French hip hop / rap collecti ...
'' and the films '' On the Line'', '' Snow Day'', and '' In the Mix''.
* Anna Russell
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– singer and comedian – Anna Russell Way is named after her.
*Steven Stamkos
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ice hockey player of the Nashville Predators
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.
*Paul Poirier
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a figure skater. Competed in 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
* Howie Lee ice hockey player who was a member of the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen who won the bronze medal for Canada in ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics.
* Joe Bowen
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– Toronto Maple Leafs
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broadcaster.
* James Duthie – TSN Hockey analyst.
* Ken Pereira – field hockey midfielder.
* Bob Beckett
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– former ice hockey centre.
* Andrea Beck – Montreal
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-born author best known for her ''Elliot Moose'' books.
* Donald Deacon
Donald MacKay Deacon (April 24, 1920 – September 16, 2003) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1967 to 1975 who represented the riding of York Centre.
Background
Deacon ...
– deacon, OC, O.PEI, MC (1920–2003) was an MPP for the provincial riding of York Centre, a businessman, and volunteer. He was made an officer of the Order of Canada
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To coincide with the Canadian Centennial, ce ...
in 2003.
* Marc Bendavid – film, television and stage actor.
* Gillian Apps
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As a psychology major at Dartmouth College in ...
– women's ice hockey player. She is the granddaughter of Hockey Hall of Fame member Syl Apps
Charles Joseph Sylvanus Apps (January 18, 1915 – December 24, 1998), was a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1936 to 1948, an Olympic pole vaulter and a Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in ...
and the daughter of former National Hockey League player Syl Apps, Jr. and his wife Anne.
See also
*Main Street Unionville
Main Street Unionville is a collector route that runs through the historical suburban community of Unionville, Ontario, Unionville, in Markham, Ontario, Markham, Ontario, Canada. Like most other Main Streets, the street serves as an important roa ...
*List of historic buildings in Markham, Ontario
This is a list of historic building in Markham, Ontario, Canada. The earliest structures that were built in Markham, Ontario, Markham, Ontario originated from indigenous settlements in the region, including the Iroquois, the Huron-Wendat Nation, ...
References
External links
Unionville 150th: Origins of a Community
{{Greater Toronto Area
Neighbourhoods in Markham, Ontario
Populated places established in 1803