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Newmarket - Tower # 1,2,3 of 5. Scroll down for towers # 4 and 5
York Region. Photo © Mark Visser |
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Tower Information
Location: 1030 Ivesbridge Blvd.
Signage:
Built: 1985
Height: 28 meters
Capacity: 4,000,000 liters |
Tower Information
Location: 211 Harry Walker Pkw. S
Signage: Newmarket
Built: 1991
Height: 41 meters
Capacity: 4,000,000 liters |
Tower Information
Location: 1145 Davis Drive
Signage:
Built:
Height: 38 meters
Capacity: 2,273,000 liters |
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Area information.
Newmarket is a Provincial Urban Growth Centre, located in York Region, just north of Toronto. The town 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 ran through what became the downtown area starting in the 1850s.
Newmarket's location on the Holland River long ago made the area a natural route of travel between Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe. Some of the United States Quakers were interested in moving northward, disturbed by the violence they were expected to take part in during the American Revolution. In 1801, the Quaker families acquired 8,000 acres around the Holland River. In June 1853 the first train pulled into Newmarket on the Toronto, Simcoe & Lake Huron Union Railroad, the first railway in Upper Canada.
Newmarket was incorporated as a village in 1857. The Regional Municipality of York was formed in 1971. Wikipedia |
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