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Vaughan, Ontario

Vaughan
City (lower-tier)
City of Vaughan
Vaughan as viewed from Canada's Wonderland
Vaughan as viewed from Canada's Wonderland
Official seal of Vaughan
Seal
Official logo of Vaughan
Logo
Vaughan is located in Southern Ontario
Vaughan
Vaughan
Coordinates: 43°50′N 79°30′W / 43.833°N 79.500°W / 43.833; -79.500Coordinates: 43°50′N 79°30′W / 43.833°N 79.500°W / 43.833; -79.500
Country Canada
Province Ontario
Regional Municipality York
Communities
Settled 1792
Incorporated 1850 (Township)
Incorporated 1991 (City)
Government
 • Type Municipal (City)
 • Mayor Maurizio Bevilacqua
 • Regional Councillor Gino Rosati
Michael Di Biase
Deb Schulte
 • City Manager Steve Kanellakos
 • Councillors
 • MPs, and MPPs
Area
 • Land 273.52 km2 (105.61 sq mi)
Population (2011)
 • Total 288,301
 • Density 1,054.0/km2 (2,730/sq mi)
 • Total Private Dwellings 71,265
  Population ranked 17th nationally
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
Area code(s) 905 and 289
Website www.vaughan.ca

Vaughan (/vɔːn/ VAWN; 2011 population 288,301) is a city in Ontario, Canada. It is within the region of York, just north of Toronto. Vaughan was the fastest-growing municipality in Canada between 1996 and 2006, achieving a population growth rate of 80.2% according to Statistics Canada having nearly doubled in population since 1991. It is the fifth-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area, and the 17th largest city in Canada.

In the late pre-contact period, the Huron-Wendat people populated what is today Vaughan. The Skandatut ancestral Huron village overlooked the east branch of the Humber River (Pinevalley Drive) and was once home to approximately 2000 Huron in the sixteenth century. The site is close to a Huron ossuary (mass grave) uncovered in Kleinburg in 1970, and one kilometre north of the Seed-Barker Huron site

The first European to pass through Vaughan was the French explorer Étienne Brûlé, who traversed the Humber Trail in 1615. However, it was not until the townships were created in 1792 that Vaughan began to see settlements, as it was considered to be extremely remote and the lack of roads through the region made travel difficult. The township was named after Benjamin Vaughan, a British commissioner who signed a peace treaty with the United States in 1783.


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