Queensville, Ontario

Queensville, Ontario

Queensville is a village within the Town of East Gwillimbury, Ontario, Canada.

Among the private homes, the village proper contains the Queensville Cemetery, a post office, a United Church of Canada, and a complex containing a fire hall, a community centre, a public library, a public park with softball diamond, tennis courts and playground. Guy Paul Morin and Christine Jessop were neighbours in Queensville in 1986, and John Candy once owned a home approximately 1 km south of Queensville.

Geography

Statistics Canada 2006 census population for all of East Gwillimbury 21,069.
*Population approximately 3% of total East Gwillimbury population 632
*Area code: +1-905
*Name of inhabitants: - Queensvillians
*Postal code: L0G 1R0

urrounding communities

*Holland Landing, to the west
*Keswick, to the north
*Mount Albert, to the east
*Newmarket, to the south

ee also

* Monarchy in Ontario


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