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A post office opened in , and until the name was spelled "New Market". Newmarket is noted for its role in the Rebellions of — , [11] [12] and was a centre of discontent against the manipulations of the governing Family Compact. Rebel leader William Lyon Mackenzie organized a series of meetings leading to the Rebellion; the first of which, on August 3, , was delivered from the veranda of the North American Hotel in Newmarker.

A number of leaders from this area were attainted for high treason , convicted and hanged.

By , the population was about Much of the settlement was built on the south side of the town, with farms surrounding it. There were six churches or chapels, a post office, five stores, three taverns, and tradesmen of various types. Industry included two grist-mills, two breweries, a distillery, one tannery, a foundry, a carding machine, and a cloth factory.

It was later called the Northern Railway of Canada , and carried passengers, agricultural products and manufactured goods. Newmarket was incorporated as a village in with a population of , with Donald Sutherland as the first reeve. In , Newmarket became a town with a population of 2, William Cane was elected as the first mayor. Some years later, his sash and door factory would become the first Canadian manufacturer of lead pencils, the Dixon Pencil Company.

In , the population was 1, and a gazetteer described Newmarket as one of the most flourishing villages on the Northern Railway line. In addition to the train, stagecoaches were available to nearby communities. At the time, it brought significant numbers of day-trippers to Newmarket to shop at the market.

Automobile traffic on Yonge Street, and the already existing mainline railway, had a significant effect on ridership, and the Radial was discontinued in the early s.

North of Davis Drive in Newmarket, the East Holland River was straightened to prepare it for use as a commercial waterway to bypass the railway, whose prices were skyrocketing around the turn of the 20th century. This would allow boats to connect from there to the Trent-Severn Waterway for eventual shipment south. The Newmarket Canal was almost complete by the summer of , when it was cancelled by the incoming government of Robert Borden. Today, the locks are still visible and are known as the "Ghost Canal". The turning basin in downtown Newmarket was filled in and now forms the parking lot of The Old Davis Tannery Mall, on the site of the former Hill tannery.

For much of the 20th century, Newmarket developed along the east-west Davis Drive axis, limited to the area between Yonge Street on the west and between Bayview and Leslie Street in the east, and running from just north of Davis on the north to the Fairy Lake area on the south. By the s, Newmarket was experiencing a suburban building boom due to its proximity to Toronto. The population increased from 5, to 11, between and A concerted effort to revitalize the historic Downtown area during the late s was successful.

The historic area of Downtown's Main Street is once again a major focal point of the town.

The arrival of Highway reversed the westward movement, pulling development eastward again, and surrounding the formerly separate hamlet of Bogarttown at the intersection of Mulock Drive and Leslie Street. The town limits now run from Bathurst Street in the west to Highway in the east, and from just south of Green Lane to just north of St. The southern boundary of the town is contiguous with Aurora to the south.

Armitage was the first settlement of King township, named in honour of its first settler Amos Armitage. Other defunct communities once located within the modern boundaries of Newmarket include Garbut's Hill, Paddytown, Petchville, Pleasantville, and White Rose. Newmarket's geographical coordinates are The town is bounded on the south by Aurora , on the west by King , on the north by East Gwillimbury and on the east by Whitchurch—Stouffville.

The main river in Newmarket is the East Holland River known locally simply as "The Holland River " , and all other streams in the town are tributaries thereto. These include Bogart Creek, a brook that weaves its way into the town from the Oak Ridges Moraine by way of Bogarttown , emptying into the Holland River in north-central Newmarket; Western creek, another brook rising just west of the town, and reaching the Holland River in the town's north end; Tannery Creek, a stream that joins the Holland River in south Newmarket after flowing through Aurora ; and a number of other small watercourses.

There are two reservoirs in Newmarket; Fairy Lake which is managed by the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority , a favourite recreational area in the centre of town, is a former mill pond on the East Holland River; and Bogart Pond, also a former mill pond, is fed and drained by Bogart Creek in Bogarttown. Furthermore, the water level in the reach of the East Holland north of Davis Drive is controlled from an unfinished Newmarket Canal lock, now used as a weir.

Newmarket also lies south of and above the Algonquin Shoreline , where elevations suddenly drop off from the gently rolling hills that characterize much of Newmarket to the much flatter, lower land down below in the Holland Marsh. The land is characterized mainly by glacial deposits from the last ice age , known as "Newmarket Till". The town is underlain mainly by sand and gravel, ground by the icesheets that covered the area until about 10, years ago.

No outcrops are to be found anywhere in Newmarket, so deep are the glacial deposits. Four areas of Newmarket have been selected to absorb the majority of planned population growth and accommodate mixed usages on sites well served by transit.

The southwest portion of the town is located in the Oak Ridges Moraine and is therefore subject to the Ontario Government's Greenbelt Legislation. Precipitation is moderate and consistent in all seasons, although summers are a bit wetter than winter due to the moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. According to the census , the town's population was 84, English is the mother tongue of The ten most common mother tongues after English are Mandarin 2. Newmarket features a diverse and growing economy based largely in the business services, healthcare and knowledge sectors, as well as manufacturing and retail industries.

For over years, the town's downtown area, centred around Main Street, has acted as a hub of commerce and cultural activity. This area contains numerous early 19th Century buildings worthy of preservation, and in October , this area was recognized as a Provincial Heritage Conservation District. Recent investments have been made to improve the aesthetics and function of the historic area. These include:. The following is a list of some of these sites; many of the below-listed buildings located along Main Street are within the Main Street Heritage Conservation District :.

Newmarket's coat of arms is actually taken from the town's old corporate seal. The town flag is a navy blue field with this same design in the middle.

The beehive and bees are said to represent industry. There are nine bees, representing the town's nine most prominent businesses at the time that Newmarket was incorporated as a Village. The arms' origin is something of a mystery, however. Junior Leagues Newmarket is also home to many rep and select teams. They go by the name of the Newmarket Redmen and range from divisions of Tyke to Midget. One golf course is located within Newmarket's town limits; St.

Glenway Country Club was a private club with a course within Newmarket's boundaries, but it was closed before the season and is being redeveloped for housing. Newmarket is home to the York Curling Club. John Taylor was elected in October to become mayor, succeeding Tony Van Bynen who was mayor from to See list of previous mayors. The town's council includes a mayor, seven councillors elected on the basis of one per ward, and a regional councillor who is elected to join the mayor at meetings of York Regional Council.

The members of council elected in are: [54]. The province realigned its ridings to match those of the federal government in Federally, Newmarket is part of the riding of federal riding of Newmarket—Aurora. The riding is represented in the House of Commons of Canada by Kyle Peterson , a member of the Liberal Party of Canada , who was first elected in the federal election.

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The York Regional Police is the primary police agency in Newmarket. Ontario Provincial Police patrol on provincially maintained highways in Newmarket like Highway Newmarket is connected to Toronto by highways. The project was completed on November 29, Commuter rail is provided by GO Transit through the Newmarket GO Station with service south to Toronto and north to Barrie, with five trains each direction during rush hour.

Regular bus service is also operated by GO Transit , with service operating between 5am and 2am. The town has many trails, the most useful of which is the Tom Taylor, which extends from the border of Aurora on St. John's side-road all the way north through downtown and up into Holland Landing in the Town of East Gwillimbury.

Located in the historic Downtown area, the Newmarket Public Library provides residents with free access to , items, including books, audio books, magazines, multilingual materials, DVDs, CDs, video games, e-books and online databases. The library also runs the York Info service, which provides information about local organizations, groups and services, and helps develop a stronger volunteer presence in the community by connecting people who would like to volunteer with non-profit agencies looking for assistance. The library also produces a quarterly newsletter called "Off the Shelf" to inform patrons of its programs, services and events.

The library is a founding member of the Shared Digital Infrastructure project, an initiative to plan for an Intelligent Community in Newmarket. John M. Newmarket is also the home of Pickering College , an independent day and boarding school, as well as a campus of Seneca College. Porter first published The New Era in Newmarket. Today, it is published twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays. Newmarket is well served by radio stations from Toronto. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.

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