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Richmond Hill
Town (lower-tier)
Town of Richmond Hill Office at Highway 7 & East Beaver Creek Road
Town of Richmond Hill Office at Highway 7 & East Beaver Creek Road
Flag of Richmond Hill
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Motto: Official: En la rose, je fleuris (French for "Like the rose, I flourish")
Unofficial: A little north, a little nicer
Location of Richmond Hill within York Region.
Location of Richmond Hill within York Region.
Richmond Hill is located in Southern Ontario
Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill is located in Canada
Richmond Hill
Richmond Hill
Location of Richmond Hill within York Region.
Coordinates: 43°52′N 79°26′W / 43.867°N 79.433°W / 43.867; -79.433Coordinates: 43°52′N 79°26′W / 43.867°N 79.433°W / 43.867; -79.433
Country Canada
Province Ontario
Regional municipality York Region
Incorporated January 1, 1873 (village)
Incorporated 1957 (town)
Government
 • Mayor Dave Barrow
 • Regional Councillors Vito Spatafora, Brenda Hogg
 • Governing Body Richmond Hill Town Council
 • MPs Leona Alleslev (Aurora-Oak Ridges-Richmond Hill, Ontario),
Majid Jowhari (Richmond Hill proper)
 • MPPs Helena Jaczek (Oak Ridges only),
Reza Moridi (Richmond Hill proper)
Area
 • Total 101.11 km2 (39.04 sq mi)
Elevation 233 m (764 ft)
Population (2016)
 • Total 195,022 (Ranked 26th)
 • Density 1,928.8/km2 (4,996/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Richmond Hiller
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) Eastern (EDT) (UTC-4)
Forward sortation area L4B, L4C, L4E, L4S
Area code(s) 905/289
Website www.richmondhill.ca
Twinned with Shijiazhuang, China and Netanya, Israel, Sister Cities with, Lakeland, Florida

Richmond Hill (2016 population 195,022) is a town in south-central York Region, Ontario, Canada. Part of the Greater Toronto Area, it is the York Region's third most populous municipality and the 28th most populous municipality in Canada. It is also Canada's most populous town.

Richmond Hill has in recent years seen a huge population upsurge, being Canada's fastest-growing community in the 1990s. It is an affluent town with a large number of people employed in business, finance, industry and healthcare. The town is home to the world-renowned David Dunlap Observatory telescope, at one time the second largest telescope in the world, and still the largest in Canada.

The Regional Municipality of York was established by Bill 102 An Act to Establish the Regional Municipality of York of the provincial parliament, passed on June 26, 1970 and coming into force on January 1, 1971. The act expanded Richmond Hill's borders, annexing parts of Whitchurch Township, Markham Township, Vaughan Township and King Township into Richmond Hill, expanding the area covered from 1,700 acres (6.9 km2) to 27,000 acres (110 km2) and the population from a little over 19,000 to some 34,000. The town grew to encompass the communities of Gormley, Dollar, Langstaff, Carrville, Headford, Elgin Mills, Jefferson, Bond Lake, Temperanceville, Lake Wilcox, Oak Ridges and Richvale. While Richmond Hill was a prosperous, well developed town, many of the outlying areas annexed were far more rural, with dirt roads, no water mains or sewers and no streetlights, and the time needed to bring municipal services up in these areas, combined with residual unequal tax assessments caused considerable conflict in the municipal politics. Policing was taken over by the York Regional Police, but fire protection remained with Richmond Hill, whose firefighting force quickly grew. Having hired its first full-time employee in 1967, it had fourteen full-time employees by 1971.


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