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84-563: Hill was born in Newmarket , Ontario , to an American couple who had immigrated to Toronto from Washington, D.C. , in 1953. His father was black and his mother was white. Hill served as chair of the jury for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize . Hill was born in 1957 in Newmarket, Ontario , the second son of Daniel G. and Donna Mae (Bender) Hill, an interracial American couple who had married in 1953 and settled in Toronto, where his father

168-463: A Loyalist from Vermont , who in 1801 had travelled along Yonge Street and found the area appealing, and so applied for and received a grant for land totalling 40 farms, each of 200 acres (0.8 km ). 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 44.05°N, 79.46°W, and its elevation above sea level

252-545: 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

336-1077: A B.A in economics from Laval University in Quebec City . He moved temporarily to the United States to earn an M.A. in writing from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , Maryland. Lawrence Hill presently lives with his second wife, the writer Miranda Hill, in Hamilton, Ontario , and in Woody Point, Newfoundland . He has four daughters and a son. He has lived and worked in Baltimore, Maryland; Spain , and France . Hill taught undergraduate fiction writing while completing his M.A. at Johns Hopkins. Since completing that program, he returned to Canada, where he has taught creative writing or mentored creative writers in numerous adult education programs. These have included The Becoming Ground program at

420-905: A Crossroads volunteer in Swaziland . In 2007, Hill collaborated with Joshua Key, a former US-Army private, to write Key's memoir of serving with the US Army in the Iraq War in 2004. Key deserted the army and sought refugee status in Canada in 2005. The Deserter's Tale: the Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq was published by House of Anansi Press in Canada. the United States (Grove Atlantic) It has been translated and published in more than ten other languages or countries. Hill has been on

504-673: A bestseller in Quebec, where it won Le combat des livres on Radio-Canada. It was also published by Présence Africaine in Paris , France, where it was shortlisted, in 2013, for the Prix Fetkann. The Book of Negroes has been published in translation in Dutch, Norwegian, German and Hebrew. Deeply passionate about the advancement of women and girls in Africa, Hill has worked as a volunteer in

588-420: A change of approach that continued into the 1960s, based on an idea of higher education as the key to social justice and economic productivity for individuals and society. The royal charter that founded Université Laval in 1852 was designated a National Historic Event in 1972. This location, at 1 rue des Remparts, Quebec, still continues operation as a centre for educating Roman Catholic priests. A section of

672-604: A distillery, one tannery, a foundry, a carding machine, and a cloth factory. In June 1853, the first train pulled into Newmarket on the Toronto, Simcoe & Lake Huron Union Railroad , the first railway in Upper Canada . It was later called the Northern Railway of Canada , and carried passengers, agricultural products and manufactured goods. The line eventually linked Toronto to Collingwood on Georgian Bay ,

756-515: A major shipbuilding centre. Today, this line is the "Newmarket Subdivision" of the Canadian National Railway system, running north out of Newmarket towards Bradford , and south towards Toronto. Newmarket was incorporated as a village in 1857 with a population of 700, with Donald Sutherland as the first reeve. In 1858, Robert Simpson co-opened "Simpson & Trent Groceries, Boots, Shoes and Dry Goods" in downtown Newmarket,

840-605: A short story entitled "Meet You at the Door". Its January–February 2015 issue featured Hill's essay on the creative process of adapting The Book of Negroes for the TV mini-series. Hill served as a writer in residence with the Toronto District School Board from 2011 to 2013, visiting some twenty schools to discuss the art and business of writing with students. Hill was selected in 2013 as CBC Massey Lecturer. In

924-764: A white Republican family in Oak Park, Illinois , and graduated from Oberlin College . She met his father in Washington, D.C., where she worked for a Democratic US Senator and became a civil rights activist. In the early 1950s in Toronto, Donna Hill worked as a human rights activist for the city's Labor Committee for Human Rights. She lobbied the Ontario government to enact anti-discrimination legislation. She also wrote about Black Canadian history; her A Black Man's Toronto, 1914-1980: The Reminiscences of Harry Gairey (1980)

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1008-491: A writ of Pope Benedict XV . In 1971, a second charter transferred all authority to the Université Laval council. By 1925, the university had outgrown its location. The Old City was very crowded, making it difficult to add new buildings to the campus. The university moved to Sainte-Foy in the 1950s, which at the time was a semi-rural community west of the Quebec city centre. The School of Architecture returned to

1092-550: Is 252 m. It has an area of 38.33 km . 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

1176-593: Is engaged in the sale of products to customers throughout the university, such as books, lecture notes and computers. They have two locations. One is on campus in the administrative building and the other near La Fabrique, the Arts building in Old Québec. Athletics take place at the Pavillon d'éducation physique et des sports (Physical Education and Sports Complex), in short PEPS . Laval's varsity sports teams are named

1260-699: 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

1344-838: The Holland River enabled travel between Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe . A portage route, the Toronto Carrying-Place Trail , ran one of its two routes up the Holland River through the Newmarket area, and over the Oak Ridges Moraine to the Rouge River and into Lake Ontario. A more widely used route ran up the western branch of the Holland River, over the moraine, and down the Humber River . In 1793, John Graves Simcoe travelled

1428-705: The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize , both CBC Radio's Canada Reads and Radio-Canada's Le Combat des livres , and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. The novel has been chosen by community or academic reading programs as a central work for discussion at Dalhousie University (twice), Trent University , the Calgary Public Library , The City of Rothesay (NB), the Hamilton Public Library and

1512-587: The Rouge-et-Or (Red & Gold). As of 2024, the men's football team of Laval have won 12 Vanier Cups and has thus the most titles in the country, followed by the Western Mustangs (8 Vanier Cups). Public figures, including Prime Ministers of Canada, Premiers of Quebec, Supreme Court Justices, federal Cabinet Ministers, Senators, and Lieutenant-Governors as well as national and international athletes have graduated from l'Université Laval. Some of

1596-542: The Thirteen Colonies moved to the area to avoid violence they were expected to take part in during the American Revolution . In June 1800, Timothy Rogers, a Quaker from Vermont , explored the area around the Holland River to find a suitable location for a new Quaker settlement. He, Samuel Lundy and their group of Religious Society of Friends received the grant of 8,000 acres (3,200 ha) around

1680-537: The University of British Columbia , the Humber School for Writers , Sage Hill Writing Experience, and The Banff Centre . Hill has also served numerous times on juries granting literary awards or writing grants. He has frequently spoken at academic and social conferences, literary festivals, libraries, universities and high schools across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Europe, South America, South Africa,

1764-515: The icesheets that covered the area until about 10,000 years ago. No outcrops are to be found anywhere in Newmarket, so deep are the glacial deposits. Newmarket is identified as one of the Golden Horseshoe's 25 Urban Growth Centres in Ontario's Places to Grow Growth Plan. 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. These are

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1848-640: The 1950s, and of its lands, 56 percent are wooded areas, grasslands, and sports fields . Practically all buildings are linked by 10 km (6.2 mi) of underground walkways, which are particularly useful in the winter and whose walls are mostly covered by murals painted by student associations and student visitors over the years, as well as graffiti. The campus is also home to the Roger-Van den Hende botanical garden ( fr ) which contains some 67 species of deciduous and coniferous trees and 60 different species of birds. The Louis-Jacques-Casault building also hosts

1932-474: The Aurora/Newmarket border. Glenway Country Club was a private club with a course within Newmarket's boundaries, but it was closed before the 2012 season and is being redeveloped for housing. There are also several courses in the surrounding communities and countryside. Three public swimming places exist throughout Newmarket: Ray Twinney Complex , Gorman Pool, which is open only in the summer, and

2016-536: The Caribbean and Australia. He is a Senior Fellow at Massey College at the University of Toronto. As of September 2016, Hill is affiliated with the University of Guelph . Hill's first passion was running, but he was unable to realize his dreams of becoming an elite athlete and winning an Olympic gold medal in the 5,000 meters. He threw himself into writing in his teenage years and completed his first story at

2100-812: The Grand Séminaire de Québec and 1668 with the founding of the Petit Séminaire by François de Montmorency-Laval , a member of the House of Laval and the first Bishop of New France . During the French regime, the institution mainly trained priests to serve in New France . After the Conquest of 1760 , the British expanded education in Canada to include the liberal arts. French Canadians had at

2184-467: The Holland River. In 1801, Rogers returned along with several Quaker families who had left their homes in Vermont and Pennsylvania , and settled here between 1801 and 1803. Joseph Hill constructed a mill on the river, damming it to produce a mill pond today known as Fairy Lake. The settlement of "Upper Yonge Street" developed around the mill and the Holland River. Hill also built a tannery north of

2268-528: The Magna Centre. Laval University Université Laval ( French pronunciation: [ʏnivaɛ̯ʁ̥sɪ̥te laval] ; English : Laval University) is a public research university in Quebec City , Quebec, Canada. The university traces its roots to the Séminaire de Québec , founded by François de Montmorency-Laval in 1663, making it the oldest institution of higher education in Canada and

2352-909: The Microbiome-Endocannabinoidome Axis in Metabolic Health, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Photonic Innovations, and Communication and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurophotonics. The university has also received research funding from Huawei but has kept the details of the funding confidential. Les Presses de l'Université Laval (University Press), which was founded in 1950, deals with Canadian civilization, literature, medieval studies, law, social sciences, physical sciences and engineering. It publishes some 120 books per year. The Coopérative de l'Université Laval (University Co-op)

2436-736: The National Council. Newmarket, Ontario Newmarket ( 2021 population : 87,942 ) is a town and regional seat of the Regional Municipality of York in the Canadian province of Ontario . It is part of Greater Toronto in the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario . The name stems from the fact that the settlement was a "New Market", in contrast to York as the Old Market . The town

2520-506: The Northern Railway line. In addition to the train, stagecoaches were available to nearby communities. By the time of the 1871 census, the population was 1,760 and by 1881, it had increased to 2,006; an elementary school and a high school were already in operation by then. The Toronto and York Radial Railway arrived in Newmarket in 1899. This service operated along Yonge Street south of Newmarket, but turned east to run through

2604-625: The One Book One Community program linking Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge, Ontario. The Book of Negroes was adapted as a six-part television miniseries . Hill co-wrote it with director Clement Virgo . The series featured actors Aunjanue Ellis , Cuba Gooding, Jr. , and Louis Gossett Jr. Filmed in South Africa , Nova Scotia , and Ontario in early 2014, the miniseries premiered in Cannes , Toronto and New York City in

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2688-669: The School of Chemistry (1923), the addition on Ste. Famille Street (1931), the Mining School (1938), and the cafeteria building (1945), all by architect Joseph Simeon Bergeron. However, the neighbourhood was already crowded and activities later moved in nearby Sainte-Foy, which was more spacious. Today's campus covers 1.2 km (0.46 sq mi) and has over 30 buildings (also called pavillons ), including many iconic exemplars of modern architecture . Its earliest buildings and landscapes were designed by Edouard Fiset ( fr ) from

2772-619: The TV miniseries in the US as The Book of Negroes . HarperCollins Australia published this novel as Someone Knows My Name in Australia and New Zealand. Hill's short fiction has been featured in the literary quarterlies Descant and Exile , as well as in Canadian newspapers and magazines such as The Toronto Star and Toronto Life . The Walrus published Hill's award-winning essay "Is Africa's Pain Black America's Burden", and

2856-608: The Vieux Séminaire has been the location for the Université's school of architecture since 1987. The Camille-Roy pavilion houses the restored Promotions Room, which can be rented as a venue for various types of events. In 2017, the university became the first in Canada to divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies. After it was granted a university charter, several buildings were built in Old Quebec, including

2940-450: The War in Iraq (2007), Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book: An Anatomy of a Book Burning (2013), and Blood: The Stuff of Life (2013). Hill's fictional works include Some Great Thing (1992), Any Known Blood (1997), The Book of Negroes (2007), and The Illegal (2015), which brought his work to broad public attention and won numerous awards. Published in at least ten countries, The Book of Negroes won several awards, including

3024-645: The West African countries of Niger , Cameroon and Mali since 1979. His first published work of fiction, a short story entitled "My Side of the Fence," recounted the transformative experience of working in Niger with Crossroads International . As an honorary patron of Crossroads, in 2010 Hill founded the Aminata Fund, supporting programs for women and girls in developing areas of Africa. He returned in 2014 as

3108-724: The Yonge-Davis intersection, Yonge Street (south of Green Lane), the Regional Healthcare Centre ( Southlake Regional Health Centre ) and Historic Downtown Centre (surrounding Main Street South). Further construction of big box retail stores in the Yonge Street corridor will not be permitted and the long-term objective of the town is redevelopment or the addition of new buildings to these areas through controlled intensification. The southwest portion of

3192-413: The advisory council of Book Clubs for Inmates since 2010. He has also been a member of the Council of Patrons of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society, in Birchtown, Nova Scotia , since 2011. Hill is an honorary patron of Project Bookmark Canada since 2012. He is a member of PEN Canada and an active member of the Writers' Union of Canada , for which he has chaired and sat on various committees and served on

3276-404: The area around Upper Canada Mall, with additional strip malls developing directly across the Yonge Street/Davis Drive intersection to the south and southeast. A concerted effort to revitalize the historic Downtown area during the late 1980s was successful. More recently, a $ 2.3-million investment was made by the town in 2004 in streetscaping and infrastructure improvements to roads and sidewalks in

3360-416: 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 1950s, Newmarket was experiencing a suburban building boom due to its proximity to Toronto. The population increased from 5,000 to 11,000 between 1950 and 1970. The Regional Municipality of York was formed in 1971, increasing

3444-440: The board, was to serve as a link between the two bodies and lead the institution. In the early part of the 20th century, the need for higher education expanded beyond the classical fields of theology, law and medicine, and the university introduced science and social-science departments such as forestry and household science. In addition, graduate training based on the German-inspired American model of specialized course work and

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3528-402: The capital. A number of leaders from this area were attainted for high treason , convicted and hanged . By 1846, the population was about 600. 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,

3612-469: The completion of a research thesis was introduced. "Laval", a waltz by French-Canadian ragtime composer Wilfrid Beaudry , was dedicated to the students at Laval University and the University of Montreal. The music for piano was published in Quebec by J. Beaudry, circa 1906. In 1929, the Quebec Seminary was designated as a national historic site of Canada. The university opened its department of social, political, and economic sciences in 1938, signalling

3696-411: The downtown area along Main Street; it would later be extended north to Sutton . 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 1930s. North of Davis Drive in Newmarket, the East Holland River

3780-546: The early age of 14. After receiving his B.A. in economics at Laval University , Hill worked for four years as a full-time newspaper reporter for The Globe and Mail , and later for The Winnipeg Free Press . He became the parliamentary bureau chief for the newspaper in Ottawa, covering Parliament, the Supreme Court of Canada and a wide range of cultural, economic and social issues. Resigning from his position as parliamentary bureau chief in 1986, Hill moved to Spain to begin writing fiction full-time. The work of his parents in

3864-446: The fall of 2014, began to air on CBC Television in Canada in January 2015, and was scheduled to air on BET in the US in February 2015. Although Hill's novel The Book of Negroes was first released in 2007 by W. W. Norton & Company under the title Someone Knows My Name ; the American publisher re-issued a new edition of the novel with the original title in January 2015 to build on the mini-series. BET has committed to releasing

3948-416: The fall of that year he delivered lectures in five Canadian cities, drawn from his non-fiction book Blood: the Stuff of Life (2013). Also aired on CBC Radio , Blood: The Stuff of Life is a personal consideration of the physical, social, cultural and psychological aspects of blood, how it defines, unites and divides us. In 2015, Blood: The Stuff of Life won the Hamilton Literary Award for Non Fiction. He

4032-406: The first North American institution to offer higher education in French. The university, which was founded in Old Québec, moved to a new campus in the 1950s in the suburban borough of Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge . It is ranked among the top 10 Canadian universities in research funding and holds four Canada Excellence Research Chairs. The university's beginnings go back to 1663 with the founding of

4116-429: The first store in what would become the Simpsons department store chain. In 1880, Newmarket became a town with a population of 2,000. 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 1869, the population was 1,500 and a gazetteer described Newmarket as one of the most flourishing villages on

4200-437: 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, 1837, was delivered from the veranda of the North American Hotel in Newmarket. This speech contributed to the rebellion, as it was heard by about 600 farmers and others sympathetic to Mackenzie's cause, who later that year armed themselves and marched down Yonge Street to take

4284-458: The historic Downtown. The historic area of Downtown's Main Street is once again a major focal point of the town. The arrival of Highway 404 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. Since then, Newmarket has grown considerably, filling out in all directions. The town limits now run from Bathurst Street in

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4368-445: The historic Main Street area. 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

4452-596: The human rights movement and Black history greatly influenced Hill's work related to identity and belonging as a writer. Hill curated and wrote the exhibit on his father for the Ontario Archives, called The Freedom Seeker: The Life and Times of Daniel G. Hill . Hill's nonfiction books include Trials and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians (1993), Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association (1996), his memoir Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (2001), The Deserter's Tale: The Story of An Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from

4536-508: The internet. * The Département des Sciences des Aliments et de Nutrition has an accredited dietetic program. The university is accredited by a professional organization such as the Dietitians of Canada , and the university's graduates may subsequently become registered dietitians. Université Laval holds four of the 19 Canada Excellence Research Chairs awarded nationwide: Canada Excellence Research Chair in Remote Sensing of Canada's New Arctic Frontier, Canada Research Excellence Chair in

4620-451: The median household income in Newmarket was $ 95,589, exceeding the provincial average for the same year of $ 75,287. According to the 2016 census , the town's population was 87,942. The York Region Planning Department projects a population of 98,000 by 2026. Newmarket's population density is just over 2000 inhabitants per square kilometre, ranking the census subdivision third in Ontario and 33rd in Canada. The top five ethnic origins of

4704-483: The mill, the first general store and house, and additional mills. In 1802, Elisha Beman , who owned land in the area, established a mill, and then a distillery. Mordecai Millar also built mills, and Joseph Hill opened a tannery. During the War of 1812 a resident, William Roe, hid the settlement's gold treasury from invading American troops. The war helped the settlement prosper, as the British army purchased goods and food and hired locals to build structures. By 1814,

4788-427: The moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Newmarket had a population of 87,942 living in 30,301 of its 31,239 total private dwellings, a change of 4.4% from its 2016 population of 84,224 . With a land area of 38.5 km (14.9 sq mi), it had a population density of 2,284.2/km (5,916.1/sq mi) in 2021. In 2015,

4872-539: The old building (now affectionately referred to as Le Vieux Séminaire ) in 1989. Université Laval is governed by a board of governors and a faculty senate. This structure was modelled on the provincial University of Toronto Act of 1906, which established a bicameral system of university government consisting of a senate (faculty), responsible for academic policy, and a board of governors (citizens) exercising exclusive control over financial policy and having formal authority in all other matters. The president, appointed by

4956-574: The population are English, Canadian, Scottish, Irish and Italian. Of the 2,290 immigrants who settled in Newmarket between 2011 and 2016, 505 (22 per cent) emigrated from China, 290 (13 per cent) from Iran, and 240 (10 per cent) from the Philippines. In 2021, Newmarket was 63.9% white/European, 34.9% visible minorities, and 1.2% Indigenous. The largest visible minority groups (over 1000 population) were Chinese (10.0%), West Asian (6.5%), South Asian (4.3%), Black (2.9%), Southeast Asian (2.5%), Filipino (2.4%), and Latin American (1.5%). English

5040-456: The population, up from 25.4% in 2011. 12.9% of the population belonged to other religions and spiritual tradition, up from 8.1% in 2011. The largest non-Christian religions were Islam (6.5%), Buddhism (2.2%), Judaism (2.0%) and Hinduism (1.3%). Newmarket features a diverse and growing economy based largely in the business services, healthcare and knowledge sectors, as well as manufacturing and retail industries. The following are some of

5124-422: The regional branch of the National Archives of Quebec . The sport building is called PEPS and is said to be the largest sport complex in eastern Canada. It is adjacent to the covered TELUS stadium. Construction for the Telus stadium started in 2010 and was opened to the public in January 2012 ( fr ). Apart from the school of architecture, located in Old Quebec since 1988, the only out of campus facilities are

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5208-434: The request of Lord Elgin , then Governor-General of the Province of Canada. Through the charter, the Université Laval was created with "the rights and privileges of a university". Pope Benedict XV approved the plan and authorized the institution to establish chairs of theology and confer degrees. In 1878, the university opened a second campus in Montreal , which became the Université de Montréal on May 8, 1919, by

5292-445: The school of visual arts in the downtown neighbourhood of Saint-Roch , and the experimental Montmorency forest  [ fr ] (70 km (43 mi) north of Quebec City). As of 2002, Université Laval offered over 350 programs to more than 38,000 students. The university also attracts more than 2,500 foreign students annually, and has almost 1,000 students drawn from Canadian provinces outside of Quebec. Many students come to

5376-412: The settlement had two frame and several log buildings used as residences. The settlement continued to grow through the early 19th century, along with the formation of Aurora and Holland Landing . A post office opened in 1826, and until 1890 the name was spelled "New Market". Newmarket is noted for its role in the Rebellions of 1837–1838 , and was a centre of discontent against the manipulations of

5460-425: The size of Newmarket with land from the Township of East Gwillimbury, from the Township of King and from the Township of Whitchurch. The construction of Upper Canada Mall at the corner of Yonge Street and Davis Drive in 1974 started pulling the focal point of the town westward from the historic Downtown area along Main Street. By the early 1980s, the historic Downtown area suffered as most businesses had built up in

5544-421: The time no opportunity to pursue higher education, and Bishop Bourget of Montreal suggested expanding the Séminaire de Québec into Université Laval . Louis Casault , a priest who taught physics at the Séminaire de Québec , went to Europe to seek a royal charter and study the best university systems there. The Séminaire de Québec was granted a royal charter on December 8, 1852, by Queen Victoria , at

5628-444: 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

5712-407: The town has no official record as to the purchase or redesign of the arms. Newmarket was previously home to the following teams: Junior Leagues Newmarket is also home to many rep and select teams. They go by the name of the Newmarket Renegades and range from divisions of Tyke to Midget. One golf course is located within Newmarket's town limits; St. Andrew's Valley (a public club), which straddles

5796-413: The town is located in the Oak Ridges Moraine and is therefore subject to the Ontario Government's Greenbelt Legislation . Newmarket has a humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfb ), with four distinct seasons featuring cold, somewhat snowy winters and warm, humid summers. Precipitation is moderate and consistent in all seasons, although summers are a bit wetter than winter due to

5880-510: The town's major public sector employers: The following are some of the town's major private sector employers: As a result of this strong employment base both in Newmarket and York Region, 50% of Newmarket residents commute less than 30 minutes to work each day. For over 100 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 2013, this area

5964-416: The town's nine most prominent businesses at the time that Newmarket was incorporated as a Village. The latest form of the seal was introduced in 1938 with the arms somewhat altered from – but very similar in concept to – one that was earlier used. The arms' origin is something of a mystery, however. It is unknown what artist created the current version – or indeed the earlier version – and

6048-525: The trail northward along the main route to the west, and south to York (now Toronto ) along the lesser used eastern route through Newmarket. Selecting the eastern route as the better of the two, Simcoe started construction of Yonge Street along the former trail in late 1795, starting in York in Toronto Bay , and ending at the newly named St. Albans ( Holland Landing ), north of Newmarket. Quakers from

6132-463: The university for the Français pour non-francophones program that offers instruction in French as a second language to students from Canada and around the world. It is also the only university in Quebec which trains forestry engineers. Since the mid-1980s, Université Laval has offered distance learning; over 30 programs and 400 courses are offered by distance learning, of which 80% are accessible from

6216-633: The west and the construction of Ontario Highway 404 to the east increasingly turned it into a bedroom town since the 1980s. The province's Official Plan includes growth in the business services and knowledge industries, as well as in the administrative, manufacturing and retail sectors. Landmarks include Upper Canada Mall , Southlake Regional Health Centre , the Main Street Heritage Conservation District, and Wesley Brooks Conservation Area (locally called "Fairy Lake Park" or "Fairy Lake"). Newmarket's location on

6300-415: The west to Highway 404 in the east, and from just south of Green Lane to just north of St. John's Sideroad, taking over the former hamlet of Armitage at Yonge Street south of Mulock Drive. 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. He had been recruited by Timothy Rogers,

6384-439: Was almost complete by the summer of 1912, 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

6468-569: Was also a writer. Her novel, short stories, poems and an essay are still to be published. Hill's paternal grandfather and great grandfather were university-educated, ordained ministers of the African Methodist Episcopal Church . It was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1816 as the first independent black denomination in the United States. After attending the University of Toronto Schools , Hill earned

6552-725: Was completing his doctorate in sociology at the University of Toronto . His father, a sociologist, civil servant and activist, later became the first director and chairperson of the Ontario Human Rights Commission . Daniel Hill also served as the Ombudsman of Ontario. He published a still seminal work about Black history in Canada: The Freedom Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada . Hill's mother, Donna Mae Bender, came from

6636-509: Was formed as one of many farming communities in the area, but also developed an industrial centre on the Northern Railway of Canada 's mainline, which was built in 1853 through what would become the downtown area. It also became a thriving market town with the arrival of the Metropolitan Street Railway in 1899. Over time, the town developed into a primarily residential area, and the expansion of Ontario Highway 400 to

6720-647: Was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015. His newest novel, The Illegal , was published in fall 2015. The novel has already been optioned for film treatment by Conquering Lion Pictures , the producers of the Book of Negroes miniseries. The Illegal won the 2016 edition of Canada Reads , making Hill the first writer ever to win the competition twice. French translations have been published by Les Éditions de la Pleine Lune in Montreal , Quebec. Aminata became

6804-510: Was published by the Multicultural History Society of Ontario . Daniel and Donna Hill co-founded The Ontario Black History Society with Wilson O. Brooks and other friends. Lawrence Hill was born as the second son, and grew up with his brother Dan and sister Karen in the predominantly white Toronto suburb of Don Mills . Dan Hill became a singer-songwriter and writer, and their sister, the late Karen Hill (1958-2014),

6888-490: Was recognized as a Provincial Heritage Conservation District . This status serves to protect and officially recognize many of the heritage sites and buildings along this historic thoroughfare and its many side streets. Recent investments have been made to improve the aesthetics and function of the historic area. These include: Numerous buildings and sites located in Newmarket possess a high degree of architectural and/or historical significance; most of these are concentrated in

6972-510: 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. Sir William Mulock , the local Member of Parliament , proposed a canal system running down the Holland River through Holland Landing and into Lake Simcoe. This would allow boats to connect from there to the Trent-Severn Waterway for eventual shipment south. The Newmarket Canal

7056-723: Was the mother tongue of 64.2% of Newmarket residents in 2021. The next most common first languages were Chinese languages (7.5% including 4.7% Mandarin and 2.6% Cantonese ), Persian (5.7%), Russian (2.7%), Italian (1.4%), Spanish (1.4%) Tagalog (1.1%), and French (1.0%). 3.2% of residents listed both English and a non-official language as mother tongues, while 0.4% listed both English and French. 50.6% of residents were Christian , down from 66.5% in 2011. 23.9% were Catholic , 12.2% were Protestant , 7.6% were Christian n.o.s, 4.2% were Christian Orthodox , and 2.7% belonged to other Christian denominations and Christian-related traditions. Non-religious or secular residents were 36.5% of

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