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}}Template:Main other Vaughan (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell) (2022 population 344,412)<ref name="2021census">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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 increasing by 80.2% during this time period and having nearly doubled in population since 1991.<ref name="growth">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2021, the population of Vaughan was 323,103.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It is the fifth-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area, and the 17th-largest city in Canada.
ToponymyEdit
The township was named after Benjamin Vaughan, a British commissioner who signed a peace treaty with the United States in 1783.
HistoryEdit
In the late pre-contact period, the Huron-Wendat people populated what is today Vaughan. The Skandatut ancestral Wendat village overlooked the east branch of the Humber River (Pine Valley Drive) and was once home to approximately 2,000 Huron in the sixteenth century.<ref>Salvage excavations of nationally significant Huron sites in Vaughan continue into 2010. Cf., Gail Swainson, Toronto Star, First Nations want say in the preservation of important archaeological sites in Ontario Template:Webarchive, Aug. 29, 2010; U of T basements hold thousands of remains Template:Webarchive, Sept. 3, 2010; First Nation battles for history in court Template:Webarchive, Sept. 10, 2010. See also Archaeological Services, Inc., "Stage 4 Salvage Excavation of the Baker Site Template:Webarchive, June 2006.</ref> The site is close to a Huron ossuary (mass grave) uncovered in Kleinburg in 1970, and one kilometre north of the Seed-Barker Huron site.<ref>University of Toronto, Anthropology Dept., Seed-Barker Site Template:Webarchive.</ref>
The first European to pass through Vaughan was the French explorer Étienne Brûlé, who traversed the Humber Trail in 1615. However, it was not until townships were created in 1792 that Vaughan began to see European settlements, as it was considered to be extremely remote and the lack of roads through the region made travel difficult.
Despite the hardships of pioneer life, settlers came to Vaughan in considerable numbers. The population grew from 19 men, 5 women, and 30 children in 1800 to 4,300 in 1840. The first people to arrive were mainly Pennsylvania Germans, with a smaller number of families of English descent and a group of French Royalists. This migration from the United States was by 1814 superseded by immigrants from Britain. While many of their predecessors had been agriculturalists, the newer immigrants were highly skilled tradespeople, useful for a growing community.
Among the facilities established by this group were a number of hamlets, the oldest of which was Thornhill, where a sawmill was erected in 1801, a grist mill in 1815, and had a population of 300 by 1836. Other such enclaves included Kleinburg, Coleraine, Rupertville<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>(Maple), Richmond Hill, Teston, Claireville, Pine Grove, Carrville, Patterson, Burlington, Concord, Edgeley, Fisherville, Elder's Mills, Elgin Mills, Jefferson, Nashville, Purpleville, Richvale, Sherwood, Langstaff, Vellore, and Burwick (Woodbridge).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In 1846, the Township was primarily agricultural but had a population of 4,300. There were six grist mills and 25 saw mills.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> By 1935, there were 4,873 residents.
However, World War II sparked an influx of immigration, and by 1960, the population stood at 15,957. The ethnocultural composition of the area began to change with the arrival of different groups such as Italians, Jews and Eastern Europeans.
Incorporated in 1850 as Vaughan Township, a municipal government was established, and meetings were held at the "Township Hall" (Vaughan Memorial Hall) in Vellore. Vaughan Road was a historic road constructed in 1850 that linked Vaughan Township with Toronto. It incorporated parts of present-day Dufferin Street north of Eglinton Avenue in Toronto, though all that remains of it today is the separate alignment farther south, running through the eastern half of the former City of York.<ref name="lostrivers">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Highway 7 was built from Vaughan to Thornhill between 1928 and 1932, and Highway 400 to Barrie completed in 1951. Starting in the late 1950s, major municipal roads including Bathurst, Dufferin, Jane and Keele Streets that had been gravel were starting to be paved in the municipality.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In 1971, the new regional government of York Region was established, acquiring policing and welfare services from the communities it served; simultaneously, the township merged with the Village of Woodbridge to form the Town of Vaughan. In 1991, it changed its legal status to City of Vaughan.<ref name="township">Template:Cite book</ref>
Two F2 tornadoes tore through the city of Vaughan during the Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak on August 20, 2009. Premier Dalton McGuinty and Mayor Linda Jackson toured the destruction the next day and reported 200 homes in critical shape and as many as 600 additional homes likely to be demolished. The tornadoes also ripped up trees, flipped cars, and left thousands of people without electricity. Vaughan declared a state of emergency because of the widespread damage.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> No deaths were reported from the tornadoes, but one man who was injured in the storms suffered a heart attack the following morning.<ref name="tornado tour">Template:Cite newsTemplate:Dead link</ref>
North American telephone customers placing calls to Vaughan may not recognize the charge details on their billings. Although Vaughan has been a single municipality since 1971, the local incumbent local exchange carrier, Bell Canada, splits the city into three historical rate centres–Kleinburg, Maple and Woodbridge. Part of the Thornhill rate centre extends into Vaughan. Indeed, Vaughan does not even appear in the telephone book.
Mayor and councillorsEdit
Vaughan is governed by a ten-member council comprising a mayor, four regional councillors, and five local councillors. The mayor, elected at large, is the head of the council and a representative on York Region Council. The four regional councillors are also elected at large, and serve on both the city council and York Regional Council. Five local councillors are also elected, one from each of Vaughan's five wards, to represent those wards on Vaughan Council.
City councillors meet at Vaughan City Hall, located in Maple. The city's City Hall was opened on September 25, 2011, and is named in memory of late Mayor Lorna Jackson. The new Civic Centre is one of the first in Canada to conform to a LEED Gold Standard, the second highest environmental classification available.<ref name="LEED">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Vaughan is the first municipality in Ontario to have a Youth City Councillor. The youth city councillor is appointed as a non-voting member of Council every six months to represent the youth of Vaughan. Vaughan council originally rejected the proposal of a youth councillor but, after the Vaughan Youth Cabinet amended its proposal, Council accepted the recommendation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
After serving as mayor for nine years, Lorna Jackson saw the Town of Vaughan become incorporated as the City of Vaughan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Following the death of Mayor Lorna Jackson in 2002, Michael Di Biase was appointed mayor by Vaughan council by virtue of his position as one of two regional councillors representing Vaughan, Joyce Frustaglio was the other regional councillor. Gino Rosati, a Vaughan local councillor, was subsequently appointed by Vaughan Council to fill Di Biase's position as regional councillor and a by-election was held to fill Rosati's local councillor's position which was won by Linda Jackson, the daughter of Mayor Jackson. Di Biase first became involved in the city's politics in 1985, when he was elected as a local councillor in 1985. Di Biase retained the mayorship in the 2003 municipal election, defeating challenger Robert Craig.
In the municipal election on November 13, 2006, Di Biase was narrowly defeated by Linda Jackson, who was sworn in as mayor on December 4, 2006. On June 18, 2008, an audit of Jackson's 2006 campaign finances found that the politician exceeded her legal spending limit of $120,419 by at least $12,356, or 10 per cent. The auditors, LECG Canada Ltd., say that amount could almost double if what they believed to be unreported contributions in kind at various election events but couldn't prove are later verified.<ref>Vaughan mayor to face election-financing charges CBC News 25 June 2008</ref>
They also found other apparent contraventions of the Canada Elections Act, including at least five instances where associated companies made donations that exceeded the normal $750 donation limit per company.
On June 24, 2008, Vaughan Council voted unanimously to hire a special prosecutor to consider laying charges against Mayor Linda Jackson under the Municipal Elections Act in reaction to the auditors' report. Council hired Timothy Wilkin, "an expert in municipal law" to decide what if any charges are to be laid.<ref>Vaughan mayor faces charges over election Template:Webarchive Phinjo Gombu, Toronto Star 25 June 2008.</ref> If Jackson is charged and found guilty, she would face punishments ranging from fines to removal from office.Template:Update inline
Subsequently, an audit was conducted on former Mayor Di Biase's 2006 election campaign funds. This exposed 27 contraventions under the Elections Act, along with a $155,000 anonymous cash payment made to his lawyer to cover his legal fees. Di Biase has refused to disclose who made this payment.<ref>Former Vaughan mayor Di Biase faces 27 election-related charges Template:Webarchive Caroline Grech, Yorkregion.com 17 Sept 2009</ref>
On 25 October 2010, longtime MP Maurizio Bevilacqua was elected mayor and he assumed office in December 2010.
On 24 October 2022, former Ontario Liberal Party leader Steven Del Duca was elected mayor; he assumed office on November 15, 2022. Del Duca is the architect of the Protecting Vulnerable Social Infrastructure By-law, which prohibits nuisance demonstrations within 100 metres of the property line of child-care centres, congregate care facilities, hospitals, schools and places of worship. The bylaw was unanimously approved by Vaughan Council on June 25, 2024, making it the first municipality in Canada to adopt such legislation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
GeographyEdit
Vaughan is bounded by Caledon and Brampton to the west, King and Richmond Hill to the north, Markham and Richmond Hill to the east, and Toronto — in the dissolved cities of Etobicoke and North York, to the south.
Communities and identityEdit
The city is made up of nearly a dozen historic communities. Likely as a result of the municipality being established when it was still largely a rural area with scattered settlements, most residents (and even non-residents) identify more with the larger communities than they do with the city as a whole and have greatly expanded their areas, and the City officially designates five in the urban area as major communities, with all of the built-up areas of the city considered as being within one of them. This includes corporations such as Bell Canada, which uses the original community rate centres and lists them separately in the phone book, resulting in local calling areas being different throughout the city.
- Woodbridge: North/South - Major Mackenzie<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Maple: North/South - King Vaughan Line/Rutherford, East/West - Bathurst/Hwy 400
- Thornhill: North/South - Hwys. 7 and 407 (Major Mackenzie for the area west of Bathurst)/Steeles, East/West - Yonge/Dufferin
- Concord: North/South - Rutherford/Steeles, East/West - Dufferin/Hwy 400
- Kleinburg: North/South - King Vaughan Line/Major Mackenzie, East/West - Hwy 400/Hwy 50
Vaughan Metropolitan CentreEdit
The Vaughan Metropolitan Centre is a new 179-hectare (442 acre) city centre under development around the intersection of Highway 7 and Jane Street, at the site of the former hamlet of Edgeley.
When the Township of Vaughan officially became a town in 1971, it was made up four historic communities (Maple, Kleinburg, Thornhill and Woodbridge) large enough to have their own village or town centres. Vaughan committed to building a new business and commercial core distinct from all of them. This commitment became policy in 1998 when Official Plan Amendment 500 called for the Vaughan Corporate Centre, as it was then branded, to become a focal point for business activity and major commercial development.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
It is served by the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre subway station, which is the northwestern terminus of Line 1 Yonge–University of the Toronto subway system. It is also a major transit hub for York Region Transit (YRT), as well as Viva and Züm bus rapid transit services.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
ClimateEdit
Vaughan, like much of the Greater Toronto Area, features a continental climate Dfb and has four distinct seasons.
ServicesEdit
Health careEdit
Vaughan was the largest city in Canada without a hospital<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> until the 2021 opening of Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital on Major Mackenzie Drive north of Canada's Wonderland.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Its planning began in 2007.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The provincial government of Ontario approved construction of the hospital in July 2011, and a tender for bids to construct it was issued in 2014 or 2015.<ref name="CNWhospital">Template:Cite news</ref> Land preparation for construction began in the summer of 2014.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Construction on the grounds began in October 2016. The expected date of completion was late 2020.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It is part of a regional hospital system with a "single governance, administration and medical staff"<ref name="CNWhospital" /> managed by Mackenzie Health. Officially opened on 6 June 2021, the hospital is 1.2 million square feet and has 350 beds.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital is Canada's first smart hospital, with technology that lets medical systems and devices communicate with each other to maximize information exchange and improve patient care.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Fire servicesEdit
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TransportationEdit
{{#invoke:Labelled list hatnote|labelledList|Main article|Main articles|Main page|Main pages}} Vaughan offers a complex transportation infrastructure, which includes highways, public transit, regional roads, municipality-funded roads, and train services.
DemographicsEdit
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Median age as of 2021 was 41.6, on par with the Ontario median age of 41.6.<ref name="2021census" />
LanguageEdit
According to the 2021 Census, English is the mother tongue of 45.2% of the residents of Vaughan. Italian is the mother tongue for 9.8% of the population, followed by Russian (6.0%) and Mandarin (4.0%). Each of Spanish, Persian, Cantonese, Urdu, Punjabi, Hebrew, Tagalog (Filipino), Vietnamese, Portuguese, and Korean have a percentage ranging from 2.9% to 1.3%, signifying Vaughan's high linguistic diversity.<ref name="2021census" />
ReligionEdit
As of 2021, most reported religion among the population was Christianity (53.1%), with Catholicism (38.6%) making up the largest denomination. This was followed by Judaism (13.2%), Islam (7.4%), Hinduism (4.8%), Buddhism (2.4%) and Sikhism (1.8%). 17.0% of the population did not identify with a particular religion.<ref name="2021census" />
EthnicityEdit
| Ethnic Origin (2021) | Population | Per cent |
|---|---|---|
| Italian | 85,030 | 26.5 |
| Chinese | 27,235 | 8.5 |
| Jewish | 25,325 | 7.9 |
| Russian | 18,245 | 5.7 |
| Canadian | 17,780 | 5.5 |
| East Indian | 17,330 | 5.4 |
| Polish | 9,885 | 3.1 |
| Filipino | 9,140 | 2.9 |
| Portuguese | 8,300 | 2.6 |
| English | 8,265 | 2.6 |
| Vietnamese | 7,305 | 2.3 |
| Ukrainian | 7,080 | 2.2 |
| Iranian | 6,935 | 2.2 |
| Irish | 6,715 | 2.1 |
| Scottish | 5,895 | 1.8 |
As of 2021, visible minorities make up 35.4% of the population.<ref name="2021census" />
CrimeEdit
The total crime against persons in 2017 was 619.43 per 100,000 population, with 1.49 per 100,000 being violations causing death.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Organized crime also has a notable presence in Vaughan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Notable incidents include mob shootings outside the Terrace Banquet Hall in July 2013 resulting in two deaths, one of which was mobster Salvatore Calautti<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Regina Sports Café in April 2014 resulting in the death of Carmine Verduci,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as the Woodbridge Cafe shooting at Islington Avenue and Highway 7 in June 2015.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Three killings in March 2017; on March 14, a 28-year-old Vaughan woman was shot as she sat in a car parked outside of a lighting business on Caster Avenue, on March 23, a shooting of a 26-year-old Ajax man at Jane Street and Highway 7,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and on March 30, a private social club shooting near Martin Grove Road and Highway 7.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In April 2017, Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua spoke after the third March murder, stating people "should not live in fear".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On July 18, 2019, the York Regional Police announced the largest organized crime bust in Ontario, part of an 18-month long operation called Project Sindicato that was also coordinated with the Italian State Police.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> York Regional Police had arrested 15 people in Canada and seized $35 million worth of homes, sports cars and cash in a major trans-Atlantic probe targeting the most prominent wing of the 'Ndrangheta in Canada (the Siderno Group), allegedly headed by Angelo Figliomeni of Vaughan. On July 14 and 15, approximately 500 officers raided 48 homes and businesses across the GTA, seizing 27 homes worth $24 million, 23 cars, including five Ferraris, and $2 million in cash and jewelry.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The charges laid included tax evasion, money laundering, defrauding the government and participating in a criminal organization.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The investigation was motivated by a series of violent incidents in Vaughan in 2017 according to CBC News, "including an attempted murder, drive-by shootings and arsons". The charges laid included tax evasion, money laundering, defrauding the government and participating in a criminal organization.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In response to increasing hate crimes, on June 5, 2024, Vaughan became the first municipality in Ontario to introduce a "bubble zone" bylaw that prohibits demonstrations within 100 metres of vulnerable social infrastructure, such as religious institutions, schools, child care centres, hospitals and assisted living facilities.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
CultureEdit
AttractionsEdit
- Baitul Islam Mosque, headquarters of the Canadian Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
- Bayview Golf & Country Club,<ref>Bayview Golf & Country Club</ref> located in Thornhill
- Boyd Conservation Area, park located east of Islington Avenue, south of Rutherford Road
- Cam Lo Vuong Buddhist Community Temple,<ref>Cam Lo Vuong Buddhist Community Temple</ref> at Keele Street and Teston Road
- Canada's Wonderland, Canada's largest amusement park, located on the east side of Highway 400 between Rutherford Road and Major Mackenzie Drive
- Cinplex Cinemas Vaughan,<ref>Cinplex Cinemas Vaughan</ref> located near Highway 7 and Weston Road
- City Playhouse Theatre,<ref>City Playhouse Theatre</ref> located at Bathurst Street and New Westminister Drive
- Copper Creek Golf Club,<ref>Copper Creek Golf Club</ref> located in Kleinburg
- Dave & Buster's<ref>Dave & Buster's</ref> located near highways 400 and 7
- Eagles Nest Golf Club,<ref>Eagles Nest Golf Club</ref> near Dufferin Street and Major Mackenzie Drive West
- J. E. H. MacDonald House
- Kortright Centre for Conservation, located between Rutherford Road and Major Mackenzie Drive east of Islington Avenue
- Maple Downs Golf & Country CLub,<ref>Maple Downs Golf & Country CLub</ref> near Dufferin Street and Elgin Mills Road West
- McMichael Canadian Art Collection, located in Kleinburg
- Promenade Shopping Centre, near Bathurst Street and Clark Avenue in Thornhill
- Putting Edge],<ref>Putting Edge</ref> located near Weston Road and Highway 7
- Reptilia Zoo, a Template:Cvt Reptile Zoo and Education Centre located near Vaughan Mills and Canada's Wonderland
- SilverCity Richmond Hill Cinemas.<ref>SilverCity Richmond Hill Cinemas</ref> located near Yonge Street and Highway 7
- The National Golf Club of Canada, located in Woodbridge
- Vaughan Mills, a large shopping mall opened in 2004, which includes Legoland Discovery Centre<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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SportsEdit
Vaughan is home to many amateur sports teams for a variety of sports, with an organization running a league for each of the four major sports. There are also rep and select levels of these sports where the Vaughan Rangers, Vaughan Panthers, and Vaughan Kings represent the city in youth hockey,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the Vaughan Vikings represent the city in baseball,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the Vaughan Rebels represent the city in football,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the Vaughan Panthers represent the city in basketball.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Vaughan also has a high softball following, with the Vaughan Vikings and Woodbridge Warriors offering house league and rep opportunities, as well as and adult World Series Slo Pitch league.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The city also hosts the Vaughan Flames, a youth organization exclusively for woman's hockey.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The name also belonged to the former CWHL hockey team that folded in 2010. Additionally, the Vaughan Vipers formerly played in the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. In 2012, the Vipers were decommissioned and withdrew from their league.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The city is also home to numerous golf and country clubs. These include The National Golf Club of Canada, one of Canada's highest ranking golf clubs.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
| Sport | Team | League | Years | Stadium | League
Championships |
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| Soccer | Toronto FC II | USL | 2015-2017 | Ontario Soccer Centre | 0 |
| Vaughan Azzurri | L1O | 2014–present | North Maple Regional Park | 2 | |
| Woodbridge Strikers | L1O | 2014–present | Vaughan Grove 1 | 0 | |
| York Region Shooters | CSL | 1998–present | St. Joan of Arc Turf Field | 3 | |
| Hockey | Vaughan Flames | CWHL | 1999-2010 | Vaughan Sports Village | 0 |
SoccerEdit
Vaughan SC, Woodbridge SC and Kleinburg Nobleton SC offer house league and rep programs for youth soccer, as players for Vaughan Azzurri Woodbridge Strikers KNSC Lions respectively. These team names are also used for the city's two League1 Ontario teams. Additionally, Vaughan is home to the Ontario Soccer Association, the largest sports organization in Canada.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The OSA has over 400,000 registered players, and runs leagues across the entire province.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Vaughan is also home to the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Vaughan is also home to the semi-professional York Region Shooters from the Canadian Soccer League.
Prior to 2018, Vaughan also played home to Toronto FC II, the United Soccer League affiliate team for Toronto FC.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Because the stadium's expansion to include more seating fell through, the team announced it would be moving to play in BMO Field/Lamport Stadium for the 2018 season.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
MediaEdit
PrintEdit
Vaughan's weekly newspaper the Vaughan Citizen was first published in 2001 and has a circulation of roughly 59,000. The neighbourhood of Thornhill has its own weekly paper, the Thornhill Liberal. From 1878 to 2000 Vaughan's news was covered by The Liberal published in Richmond Hill.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Lo Specchio is an Italian-language newspaper published in Vaughan since 1984.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
City Life is a Vaughan-specific lifestyle magazine published bi-monthly by Dolce Publishing since 2003.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
FilmEdit
Kleinburg was once home to the Cinespace Film Studios, a centre for television and motion picture production. The popular children's TV show The Forest Rangers, starring Gordon Pinsent, was filmed here between 1963 and 1965. In 2006, the movie The Sentinel was filmed at the McMichael Art Gallery.
More recently, Vaughan City Hall has served as a film location, when it was used as the new Red Center (the Rachel and Leah Center) in season 2 of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. It also served as the United Federation of Planets building and Office of the President in the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Discovery.
EducationEdit
York University in North York, Ontario lies on the Toronto side of the Toronto-Vaughan border. It is a major comprehensive university, with more than 55,000 students enrolled in 11 faculties. The York University School of Medicine will open its door in the Vaughan Healthcare Centre Precinct just right beside Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital in 2028.
There are also a number of elementary and high schools in Vaughan, which operate under the York Region District School Board, the York Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire catholique MonAvenir (French-language Catholic schools) and Conseil scolaire Viamonde (French-language public schools). There is also a Waldorf school, the Toronto Waldorf School, which offers early childhood, elementary and accredited high school programs.
The American private Catholic Niagara University runs a branch campus in Vaughan, its first university in the city.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The Ontario branch of Niagara University opened a 12,000 square foot facility at Expo City in downtown Vaughan. This campus will offer Master of Science in Education and Bachelor of Professional Studies in Education programs.
EconomyEdit
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Within the Greater Toronto Area, Vaughan is the third-largest employment center, after Toronto and Mississauga. With a real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $20.6 billion in 2018, it is the largest contributor (35%) to York Region's economy.
In 2018, the city was home to 12,105 businesses employing more than 222,000 people. Between 2008 and 2018, Vaughan's average annual employment growth was 3.2% and its business growth was 2.9%, exceeding provincial and national rates.
Manufacturing continues to dominate the local economy, accounting for 22% of total employment, followed by Construction (13%), Retail Trade (12%), Wholesale Trade (10%) and Transportation and Warehousing (6%). Small businesses with fewer than 20 employees account for 81% of all business establishments.
In 2018, the Accommodation and Food Services industry accounted for $295 million of Vaughan's real gross domestic product. Vaughan currently has 12 hotels and four motels with a total of 1,845 rooms. Development applications have been submitted that have the potential to add another 1,200 rooms to current supply in the coming years. Major tourism operators include Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan Mills, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, the Kortright Centre for Conservation, LEGOLAND Discovery Centre, Reptilia, the mainstreet and village cores of Kleinburg, Thornhill, and Woodbridge.
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Construction activity, as measured by value of building permits, has exceeded the $1 billion mark in eight of the last ten years.
As of 2018, the largest employers in Vaughan are:
- Canada's Wonderland
- United Parcel Service (UPS) Canada
- Canadian National Railway
- KPMG
- Bondfield Construction
- Ganz
- NPL Canada Ltd.
- Condrain Company Ltd.
- Ozz Electric
- Rollstamp Manufacturing
Vaughan is home to 184 Canadian or regional headquarters, including:
ArchaeologyEdit
The Seed-Barker archeological site is a 16th-century Iroquois village on the Humber River in Vaughan. It has been used as a summer school field trip site since 1976 by the Boyd archeological field summer school for high school students. The school is sponsored by the York Region district school board in co-operation with the Royal Ontario Museum and the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). In 1895, a local farmer began finding Iroquoian artifacts in the area. In 1895, Roland Orr recognized the classic ecological features favoured by the Iroquoian people for their villages: floodplains along a river, an easily defensible plateau and nearby forests. The Iroquois used the floodplains to plant maize, beans and squash,Template:Rp known as the three sisters. In the 1950s, University of Toronto professor Norman Emerson and the students excavated artifacts from the Seed-Baker site. Since 1975, more than a million artifacts were discovered and nineteen longhouses were excavated revealing that the village was occupied by the Iroquois from c. 1500 - 1550 AD.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Notable peopleEdit
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Order of VaughanEdit
In 2016, to celebrate the city's 25th anniversary, Mayor Bevilacqua introduced the Order of Vaughan. This award is meant to be the highest honour bestowed by the city.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Initially, 25 recipients were given the award as a reflection of the anniversary; however, the city announced in 2017 that up to ten new individuals would receive the award each year thereafter.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The award is meant to recognize people in the categories of: accessibility, arts and entertainment, athletics, business, education, environment and spirituality, equity and diversity, health and wellness, media and communications, not-for-profit, philanthropy, public service, and science and technology.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Twin citiesEdit
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- Sora, Italy (1992)
- Ramla, Israel (1993)
- Sanjō, Japan (1993)
- Yangzhou, China (1995)
- Baguio, Philippines (1997)
- Delia, Italy (1998)
- Lanciano, Italy (2002)
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