Maple is a high-growth suburban community located northwest of Toronto Ontario Canada, part of the city of Vaughan in York Region. In 2001, its population was 36,385[1] (though Statistics Canada indicates a population of 37050[2]), living in 10893 dwellings.
Geography
Located at 43°51′N 79°31′W / 43.850°N 79.517°W, Maple covers 23.9 km2 of land area.
The west branch of the Don River flows 1 km west of Maple and rises northwest of Maple. Several creeks are to the east and the Black Creek used to began slightly west of Vellore. The Oak Ridges Moraine is to the northeast which supplies a lot of water to the Greater Toronto Area.
Black Creek flows in the west, the Don River flows to the northern and the eastern part. York University Keele Campus is to the south on Keele, and is accessed 2 km NE from Paramount Canada's Wonderland.
Transporation
Maple is accessed by Major Mackenzie Drive and Keele Street. The nearest exit is 3 km west at Highway 400 and Major Mackenzie.
The industrial area lies south of Maple, closer to Highway 407. Maple is located 13 km NE of Woodbridge, 11 km E of Kleinburg 8 km S of King City, 6.5 km from downtown Richmond Hill 12 km NW of Thornhill N of Highway 401, and SSE of Barrie.
Maple is accessed by a Canadian National line (Toronto - Washago) to its east with its GO Transit Bradford (GO Transit) rail stations at Maple (GO Station) and Rutherford (GO Station). Toronto Transit Commission, York Region Transit, and GO Transit buses serve the area.
Maple formerly had small airport in the west which was closed down in the late 20th century. The runways ran diagonally like the letter x, the runway ran from northwest to southeast and was the longest, and another which ran southwest to northeast and was the shortest. Street names line Avro, Lockheed and Mustang are named after these planes where the former airport once located.
Other trivia
- Area code: 1-905-832
- Name of inhabitants: Mapleite? sing., -s pl.
- Postal code: Originally Designated L0P 1C0, now part of L7x
Maple was an agricultural community. Much of the area used to be farmlands. The forests are to the Don Valley, the southwest, once within Vellore, the northwest, mixed in the north and plenty to its east and the northeast with a hill The centre of the community was to its east and the central part. The urban area were only to the northeast and the southwest.
History
Housing developments began in the 1960s in the southwest. Massive housing developments did not began until the 1980s in the northwest near McNaughton. In the mid-1980s to the late-1980s between the Don and the CN line south to Rutherford.
A gravel mine used to carry out gravel in the area north of Major Mackenzie and from the CN Rail to Dufferin Street. The Keele Valley Landfill Site which was owned by Metropolitan Toronto and later by the city of Toronto began putting much of the GTA's garbage into this landfill from the old landfill in the Riverdale neighbourhood. The landfill has a plant in the central part. The landfill existed until the 2002 when they were moving the landfill outside the GTA to clean up the environment and is situated in the Oak Ridges Moraine. Instead of moving north into Adams Mine in Kirkland Lake which would pollute the environment, most of the garbage is presently moving into Michigan. The landfill was finally closed on January 1, 2003?. It became reserved for the "Eagle's Nest" golf course.
Larger housing developments began to pop up near Teston between the 400 and Weston and Kirby near Pine Valley and Greenock near Weston and Teston and to the northeast near Bathurst and Teston with a golf course.
Canada's Wonderland (Paramount Canada's Wonderland) first opened in 1979.
In 1993, housing lots began on which was Maple Airport and northwest. 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 began near Vellore.
As of 2001, developments reached the northwestern part as fas 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.
Outside Maple, Vellore to the southwest used to serve as a town hall for Vaughan until the late-20th century when it was moved to Maple. Today, the old town hall of Vaughan is a landmark.
Subdivisions
- Purpleville, west near Pine Valley Drive
- Teston, northwest
- Hope, north
- Carrville, east
- Vellore, southwest
Nearest communities
- Concord, south
- Woodbridge, southwest
- Kleinburg, west
- King City, north
- Richmond Hill, east
- Thornhill, southeast
Sites of interest and attractions
- Paramount Canada's Wonderland, Toronto and Southern Ontario's Paramount amusement park.
- Vaughan Mills, The Mills, mega mall, located in the southwest