Whitchurch Township

Whitchurch–Stouffville
Town / Municipality (lower-tier)
Town of Whitchurch–Stouffville
Main Street, Whitchurch–Stouffville
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Motto: Country close to the city.
Whitchurch–Stouffville
Coordinates: 43°58′00″N 79°15′00″W / 43.96667°N 79.25000°W / 43.96667; -79.25000Coordinates: 43°58′00″N 79°15′00″W / 43.96667°N 79.25000°W / 43.96667; -79.25000
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Regional municipality	York
Incorporated	Township of Whitchurch 1792
Incorporated	Village of Stouffville 1877
Amalgamation	January 1, 1971
Government
• Type	Municipality
• Mayor	Justin Altmann
• Councillors	Ken Ferdinands Maurice Smith Hugo Kroon Rick Upton Iain Lovatt Rob Hargrave
• MPP	Helena Jaczek
• MP	Jane Philpott
Area
• Total	206.22 km2 (79.62 sq mi)
Elevation	239 m (784 ft)
Population (2016)
• Total	45,837
• Density	222.3/km2 (576/sq mi)
• Growth	+21.8% (2,011–2,016)
• Ethnicity	Ethnic groups 92.6% White 37.2% English 22.1% Scottish 19.9% Irish 11.0% German 8.5% French 6.9% Italian 5.5% Dutch   3.9% East Asian 3.0% chinese 0.4% Filipino 0.3% South-east Asian 0.2% Japanese   1.1% Black 0.9% Jamaican 0.2% Sudanese 0.2% Trinidadian 0.1% Other Black Caribbean   1.6% Indo-Canadian 1.4% Indian 0.3% Caribbean 0.3% Pakistani 0.1% Guyanese   0.8% Native Americans
	From Statistics Canada
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Forward sortation area	L0H (Gormley) L4A (Stouffville, Vandorf) L0G (Cedar Valley)
Area code(s)	905 and 289
Highways	Highway 48 Highway 404
Website	www.townofws.ca

Whitchurch–Stouffville /ˈwɪtʃərtʃˈstoʊvᵻl/ (2016 population 45,837) is a municipality in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada, approximately 50 kilometres north of downtown Toronto, and 55 kilometres north-east of Toronto Pearson International Airport. It is 206.41 square kilometres in size, and located in the mid-eastern area of the Regional Municipality of York on the ecologically-sensitive Oak Ridges Moraine. Its motto since 1993 is "country close to the city".

The Town of Whitchurch–Stouffville consists of several distinct communities and the intermediary countryside. The largest urban area is the community of Stouffville proper (2011 pop. 24,866), while other communities in the larger town include Ballantrae, Bethesda, Bloomington, Cedar Valley, Gormley, Lemonville, Lincolnville, Musselman's Lake, Pine Orchard, Pleasantville, Preston Lake, Ringwood, Vandorf, Vivian, and Wesley Corners. The town is bounded by Davis Drive (York Regional Road 31) in the north, York-Durham Line (York Regional Road 30) in the east, and Highway 404 in the west. The southern boundary conforms with a position approximately 200 metres north of 19th Avenue (York Regional Road 29), and is irregular due to the annexation of lands formerly part of Markham Township in 1971.