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52-667: Originally playing out of North York, Ontario , the senior Aeros were established in the Central Ontario Women's Hockey League and the Ontario Women's Hockey Association as the Aeros. The senior team was associated with an organization that operated several teams from youth to adult. Throughout the organization's history, the senior Aeros have also been known as the Toronto Aeros and North York Aeros. In 1999,

104-498: A Board of Control from 1964 until it was abolished with the 1988 election and replaced by directly elected Metro Councillors. The Board of Control consisted of four Controllers elected at large and the mayor and served as the executive committee of North York Council. Controllers concurrently sat on Metropolitan Toronto Council Names in italics indicate Controllers that were or became Mayor of North York in other years. X = elected as Controller A = appointed Controller to fill

156-642: A former military base are located in the Downsview neighbourhood. With the end of the Cold War , much of the land was transformed into a large park now called Downsview Park. Located within the park is the Downsview Park Sports Centre , a 45,000 m (484,000 sq ft) multi-purpose facility built by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), owners of Toronto FC , of Major League Soccer . MLSE invested $ 26 million to build

208-636: A lower-tier municipality within the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto . The municipality operated its own municipal council, the North York City Council, and met at the North York Civic Centre prior to the municipality's dissolution. The following is a list of reeves (1922–1966) and mayors (1967–1997) of North York. Township of North York Borough of North York City of North York North York had

260-624: A secondary economic hub of the city outside Downtown Toronto . The Township of North York was formed on June 13, 1922 out of the rural part of the Township of York . In the previous decade, the southern part of York, bordering the old City of Toronto had become increasingly urbanized while the northern portion remained rural farmland. The northern residents increasingly resented that they made up 20% of York's tax base while receiving few services and little representation in return, particularly after 1920 when their sole member on York's council, which

312-541: A vacancy M = sitting as Reeve or Mayor ^A Booth died in 1970 and was replaced by Paul Godfrey who served out the balance of his term. Godfrey was reelected in 1972, but resigned when he was elected Metro Chairman in 1973 following the death of Metro Chairman Albert Campbell . North York Council elected Alderman William Sutherland to replace Godfrey on the Board of Control on July 23, 1973. ^B Shiner died on 19 December 1987. Councillor Mario Gentile

364-546: Is a central business district in Toronto , Ontario , Canada in the administrative district of North York . It is located along Yonge Street , between just south of Sheppard Avenue northward to Finch Avenue with its focus around Mel Lastman Square , a civic square, and spreads eastwards and westwards a few blocks, generally as far as Doris Avenue and Beecroft Road. The district is a high-density district of condominium and office towers with ground-floor commercial uses along

416-473: Is a former township and city and is now one of the six administrative districts of Toronto , Ontario , Canada. It is located in the northern area of Toronto, centred around Yonge Street , north of Ontario Highway 401 . It is bounded by York Region to the north at Steeles Avenue , (where it borders Vaughan ) on the west by the Humber River , on the east by Victoria Park Avenue . Its southern boundary

468-608: Is a university that was established in 1959. The university operates two campuses in North York, the Keele campus located in the north, and Glendon College , a bilingual campus operated by the university. There are also two colleges that operate campuses in North York. Seneca College was established in North York in 1967, and presently operates several campuses throughout North York, and Greater Toronto . One of Centennial College 's campuses are also located in North York, known as

520-665: Is also home to a number of interactive museums, including Black Creek Pioneer Village , an authentic nineteenth-century village and a living museum , the Ontario Science Centre was an interactive science museum which was permanently closed in June, 2024, and the Aga Khan Museum , which includes a collection of Islamic art from the Middle-East and Northern Africa. An aircraft manufacturing facility and

572-532: Is an economic hub located near the busy Don Valley Parkway and busy Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) routes. McDonald's Canada and Celestica are located in this area, and Foresters Insurance has a major office tower and Bell Canada has a data centre. The Concorde Corporate Centre has 550,000 sq ft (51,000 m ) of leasable area and is 85% occupied with tenants such as Home Depot Canada , Sport Alliance of Ontario, Toronto-Dominion Bank , Esri Canada and Deloitte . Home Depot's Canadian head office

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624-516: Is an invitation-only athletic club. In 2012, the club made a major expansion in North York for their members. The Oakdale Golf & Country Club is a private, parkland-style golf and tennis club located in North York. It hosted the 2023 Canadian Open , and will host the tournament again in 2026. The North York Ski Centre at Earl Bales Park is one of the only urban ski centres of its kind in Canada. After several incidents involving failures of

676-496: Is entirely in North York, averaging around 55,000 riders per day. Line 5 Eglinton is a light rail line that is under construction and will traverse through the southeast portion of North York. Line 6 Finch West is another line under construction and will traverse through the northwestern portion of North York. The Ontario Line is expected to have two stops in North York, Science Centre and Flemingdon Park. The intersection of York Mills and Yonge, located next to York Mills station

728-527: Is erratic and corresponds to the northern boundaries of the former municipalities of Toronto: York , Old Toronto and East York . As of the 2016 Census, the district has a population of 644,685. North York was created as a township in 1922 out of the northern part of the former township of York, a municipality that was located along the western border of the-then City of Toronto . Following its inclusion in Metropolitan Toronto in 1953, it

780-652: Is home to an office and a TTC commuter parking lot, which was sold for $ 25 million. A $ 300-million project is expected to create about 300 jobs and bring a new hotel, perhaps a four star Marriott, to the intersection. In addition to the TTC, other public transit services that may be accessed from North York include GO Transit , and York Region Transit . GO Transit provides access to commuter rail and bus services to communities throughout Greater Toronto. Both services may be accessed at GO or TTC stations located in North York. North York City Centre North York City Centre

832-601: Is known as North York Centre , which was the location of the former city's government and major corporate headquarters. North York Centre continues to be one of Toronto's major corporate areas with many office buildings and businesses. The former city hall of North York, the North York Civic Centre , is located within North York City Centre. Downsview Airport , near Sheppard and Allen Road , employs 1,800 workers. Downsview Airport will be

884-546: Is located in Flemingdon Park. North York houses two of Toronto's five major shopping malls: the Yorkdale Shopping Centre and Fairview Mall . Other neighbourhood malls locations include Centerpoint Mall , Bayview Village , Sheridan Mall, Yorkgate Mall, Shops at Don Mills , Steeles West Market Mall, Jane Finch Mall and Sheppard Centre. Health care is another major industry in North York, with

936-489: Is located on Princess Avenue nearby. The district is directly served by the North York Centre subway station, while Sheppard–Yonge and Finch subway stations are located at the southern and northern edges of the area, respectively. Finch station is a hub for GO Transit services for commuters from north of Toronto. The area is known for the high-level of traffic on the six lanes of Yonge Street, which connects to

988-553: The Lansing neighbourhood on the east side of Yonge Street near Sheppard Avenue. Following the amalgamation of North York with the rest of Toronto, North York City Centre became the largest of four central business districts in the new city outside Downtown Toronto . All of the civic facilities were retained by the new City of Toronto. In the 1800s, the forests in the area were cleared for farmland, around settlements made by Jacob Cummer and David Gibson alongside Yonge Street, which

1040-481: The North York City Centre district on April 23, 2018 when a van collided with numerous pedestrians killing 10 and injuring 16 others on Yonge Street between Finch and Sheppard Avenues . As of the 2021 census, North York had a population of 683,511, a 1.6% increase from the 2016 population of 672,955. North York is highly multicultural and diverse. The district's central business district

1092-519: The 1950s and 1960s, it resembled many other sprawling North American suburbs. As North York became more populous, it became the Borough of North York in 1967, and then on February 14, 1979, the City of North York . To commemorate receiving its city charter on Valentine's Day , the city's corporate slogan was "The City with Heart". North York was amalgamated into Toronto on January 1, 1998. It now forms

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1144-490: The 1960s, some high rise development was occurring, such as a Canadian Government Building at Yonge and Elmhurst Street and the twin-tower Sheppard Centre commercial and office complex at Yonge and Sheppard. The 1970s saw the extension of the Yonge–University line to Finch, connecting the area to downtown Toronto. Following the opening of the subway extension, the area along Yonge Street, between Sheppard and Finch Avenues,

1196-629: The CWHL restructured completely, folding the Chiefs team while subsequently placing a new team in Toronto, which then acquired many of the former Chiefs' players including Jennifer Botterill and Sami Jo Small . While officially the 2010–11 Toronto CWHL team had no name, but would sometimes be called the "Toronto Aeros" in the media. The CWHL team adopted the name Toronto Furies after their appearance 2011 Clarkson Cup . North York North York

1248-733: The Calgary Oval X-Treme) defeated Team Ontario (represented by the Beatrice Aeros) by a 3–2 mark to win the Esso Women's Nationals . During the 1999–2000 NWHL season , the Beatrice Aeros played the Sainte-Julie Pantheres in the championship game. In the second game of the final, Cherie Piper scored the game-winning goal with 9:06 left to play in the first period, and Lauren Goldstein earned

1300-679: The City of North York convinced the Toronto Transit Commission to construct North York Centre station , an infill station on the Yonge–University line , to connect the new North York Civic Centre complex directly to the subway, which opened in 1987. On the east side of Yonge Street across from the Civic Centre, the Empress Walk mixed-use development, consisting of a shopping mall, cinema, and two condominium towers,

1352-772: The Downsview Park Aerospace Campus. North York is a district of the City of Toronto, and is represented by councillors elected to the Toronto City Council , members elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario , as well as members elected to the Parliament of Canada . North York Civic Centre is presently used by North York's community council and other city departments servicing North York. Prior to North York's amalgamation with Toronto in 1998, North York operated as

1404-738: The Kia Training Ground, the state-of-the-art practice facility for Toronto FC. Volleyball Canada made Downsview Park its headquarters and training facility. There are a multitude of sports clubs based in North York including the North York Storm, a girls' hockey league, Gwendolen Tennis Club, and the North York Aquatic Club, which was founded in 1958 as the North York Lions Swim Club. The Granite Club , located at Bayview and Lawrence,

1456-688: The Toronto subway have stations in North York, the Line 1 Yonge–University , and Line 4 Sheppard . Finch station , the terminus of the Yonge Street branch of the Yonge–University line, is the busiest TTC bus station and the sixth-busiest subway station, serving around 97,460 people per day. The Line 4 Sheppard subway which runs from its intersection with the Yonge-University line at Sheppard Avenue easterly to Fairview Mall at Don Mills Road,

1508-470: The area. The former City of North York chose to encourage the development of the area as a downtown by building a civic centre complex consisting of its civic offices, a public square, a central library, an arts centre, and an aquatic centre on the west side of Yonge, about 600 metres north of Sheppard at southwest corner of Park Home Avenue and Yonge. Following the completion of the Scarborough RT ,

1560-481: The club's two-person chairlift incited talks of closing the ski centre, the city revitalized the facilities with a new four-person chairlift. Sports clubs based in North York include: Several major controlled-access highways pass through North York, including Highway 400 , Highway 401 , Highway 404 , Allen Road , and the Don Valley Parkway . The former three controlled access highways are operated by

1612-419: The company was killed in the blast and one firefighter died while attending to the scene of the accident. A follow-up investigation to the incident made several recommendations concerning propane supply depots. It asked for a review of setback distances between depots and nearby residential areas but did not call for restrictions on where they can be located. Canada's deadliest pedestrian attack occurred in

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1664-880: The district housing several major hospitals, including the North York General Hospital , Humber River Hospital and the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre . Prior to 1998, the North York Board of Education and Conseil des écoles françaises de la communauté urbaine de Toronto operated English and French public secular schools in North York, while the Metropolitan Separate School Board operated English and French public separate schools for North York pupils. Today, four public school boards operate primary and secondary institutions in

1716-609: The former city: CSV and TDSB operate as secular public school boards, the former operating French first language institution, whereas the latter operated English first language institutions. The other two school boards, CSCM and TCDSB, operate as public separate school boards, the former operating French first language separate schools, the latter operating English first language separate schools. All four public school boards are headquartered within North York. In addition to primary and secondary schools, several post-secondary institutions were established in North York. York University

1768-593: The largest part of the area served by the "North York Community Council", a committee of Toronto City Council . On August 10, 2008, a massive propane explosion occurred at the Sunrise Propane Industrial Gases propane facility just southwest of the Downsview Airport . This destroyed the depot and damaged several homes nearby. About 13,000 residents were evacuated for several days before being allowed back home. One employee at

1820-549: The late 1990s, then it was extensively renovated from 2016 to 2021. Canada's deadliest vehicle-ramming attack occurred on April 23, 2018, when a rented van collided with numerous pedestrians , killing 10 and injuring 16 others on Yonge Street between Finch and Sheppard Avenues. One became quadriplegic and permanently required a ventilator at an assisted-living facility where she died in November 2021. The North York Civic Centre office complex and Mel Lastman Square , on

1872-548: The location of the Centennial College Aerospace campus, a $ 60 million investment from the Government of Ontario and Government of Canada. Private partners include Bombardier , Honeywell , MDA Corporation , Pratt & Whitney Canada , Ryerson University , Sumitomo Precision Products Canada Aircraft, Inc. and UTC Aerospace Systems . Flemingdon Park , located near Eglinton and Don Mills ,

1924-458: The opening of North York Centre station at Mel Lastman Square and the Sheppard subway line. A shopping mall and cinemas were developed on the east side of Yonge Street across from Mel Lastman Square in the 1990s. It is mostly located in the larger official neighbourhood of Willowdale , part of the former city of North York, and a former municipality (postal district) of its own, but also abuts

1976-545: The organization began being called the Beatrice Aeros after their main sponsor, Beatrice Foods Canada , and played out of the Beatrice Ice Gardens at York University . The senior Aeros joined the National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) upon its launch in 1998. On March 22, 1998, Dana Antal scored at 5:31 of a 10-minute overtime period on a pass from Jennifer Botterill as Team Alberta (represented by

2028-483: The province as 400-series highways , whereas the latter two roadways are managed by the City of Toronto. The section of Highway 401 which traverses North York is the busiest section of freeway in North America, exceeding 400,000 vehicles per day, and one of the widest. Public transportation in North York is primarily provided by the Toronto Transit Commission 's (TTC) bus or subway system . Two lines of

2080-558: The rapid growth of the suburbs of Toronto. To accommodate the growth, the township was changed into the Borough of North York after Metropolitan Toronto was split off from York County in 1953. The large expansion of Ontario Highway 401, known as the Toronto Bypass, just to the south connected the district to the rest of the Toronto area by freeway. The area was filled in by the 1960s with residential single-family subdivisions. By

2132-592: The senior Aeros ceased operations in 2007. The Canadian Women's Hockey League subsequently was created from the remnants of the NWHL. As part of the new league's reorganization, the NWHL's Oakville Ice returned to affiliating with the Mississauga Chiefs hockey organization and took the Mississauga Aeros place in the new league for 2007–08. The Mississauga Chiefs played for three seasons before

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2184-463: The shutout for the Aeros. With the 1–0 win, Beatrice earned the championship based on goal differential. The team changed its name in 2003 to become the Toronto Aeros. In 2006–07 they relocated to Mississauga and changed their name to the Mississauga Aeros. They played their home games at the Beatrice Ice Gardens at York University in Toronto. After one season in Mississauga, the NWHL and

2236-473: The war, in the late 1940s and 1950s, a housing shortage led to the township becoming increasingly developed as a suburb of Toronto and a population boom. In 1953, the province federated 11 townships and villages with the Old City of Toronto , to become Metropolitan Toronto. North York used to be known as a regional agricultural hub composed of scattered villages. The area boomed following World War II, and by

2288-570: The west side of Yonge Street one block north of Sheppard Avenue. Further north and south along Yonge Street, office towers, condominium apartment towers and street-level shops line the street. Gibson House , a museum converted from a mid-19th-century house built by the Canadian politician David Gibson , a Scottish immigrant, land surveyor and participant of the Rebellion of 1837 , is also located in this neighbourhood. Earl Haig Secondary School

2340-603: The west side of Yonge Street, are central to the area. Across Yonge Street to the east is Empress Walk , a shopping mall that connects directly to the local subway station. North York Central Library , the Toronto Centre for the Arts , and the Toronto District School Board headquarters are all located adjacent to the square. The Joseph Shepard Building , a federal government office, is located on

2392-493: The wide six lanes of Yonge Street. The district was developed following the extension of the Yonge subway north to Finch Station. In the 1970s and 80s, the former City of North York encouraged the development of the area as a downtown, locating its civic offices, a public square, a central library, an arts centre and an aquatic centre on the west side of Yonge, about 600 metres north of Sheppard. The area's growth increased following

2444-600: Was appointed to the Board of Control in February 1988 to fill Shiner's seat. North York is home to several museums including the (now closed) Canadian Air and Space Museum (formerly the Toronto Aerospace Museum) in Downsview Park . The closed museum was relocated to Edenvale, Ontario in 2019 (northwest of Barrie) and opened and renamed as the "Canadian Air and Space Conservancy". North York

2496-415: Was chosen by North York and Metropolitan Toronto to be developed into a central business district as the borough (which developed from a rural township and thus had no true historic downtown save for the original small Willowdale village where the city centre developed) was promoted to the status of city. An official plan by Metropolitan Toronto encouraged high-density commercial and residential developments in

2548-405: Was completed in 1997–2000. The streets sidewalks were widened and landscaped. The area's growth has continued steadily since then. The new Sheppard subway line opened in 2002, running along Sheppard Avenue from Don Mills Road in the east, to the expanded Sheppard-Yonge Station which crossroads with the Yonge-University line. The Sheppard Centre, originally built in the 1970s, had a cinema added in

2600-666: Was elected on an at-large basis, was defeated. Dairy farmer Robert Franklin Hicks organized with other farmers to petition the Ontario legislature to carve out what was then the portion of York Township north of Eglinton Avenue to create the separate township of North York. With the support of the pro-farmer United Farmers of Ontario government, a plebiscite was organized and held and the 6,000 residents voted in favour of separating from York by margin of 393 votes. The township remained largely rural and agrarian until World War II . After

2652-435: Was one of the fastest-growing parts of Greater Toronto due to its proximity to Toronto. It was declared a borough in 1967, and later became a city in 1979, attracting high-density residences, rapid transit, and a number of corporate headquarters in North York City Centre , its planned central business district. In 1998, North York was dissolved as part of the amalgamation which created the new City of Toronto. It has since been

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2704-655: Was the main road for travel from Toronto northward, and which served as Provincial Highway 11 from 1920 until 1998. The postal village of Willowdale was established within York County. North York Township was formed in 1923 from York Township. To the east and west, low-density single-family housing subdivisions were built beginning in the 1920s. As the area's population grew, the roadside became lined with commercial establishments, some being one-level highway arterial-type uses such as gas stations, with others being tightly knit two-storey buildings. The post-World War II period saw

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