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Richmond is a rural village within the amalgamated City of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. [1] Founded in 1818, it spans the Jock River , a tributary of the Rideau River . A part of the National Capital Region , Richmond is located 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) southwest of Kanata and immediately south to the community of Stittsville .
York Regional Road status was interrupted between Highway 27 and Pine Valley Drive, and also between Keele Street and Dufferin Street. Elgin Mills was a post office established in Richmond Hill in 1900 and named for James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin . [ 24 ]
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) maintains a number of major bases and operating stations on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as in the St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes and major navigable inland waterways such as Lake of the Woods, Lake Winnipeg, and Great Slave Lake/Mackenzie River.
The inner harbour at Mevagissey was created after an act of Parliament authorised the construction of a pier in 1775. By the 1850s there were about 80 fishing boats in the village and small cargo vessels also called at the harbour such as the French schooner Rochellaise which ran aground near the entrance on 14 July 1857.
Ontario and Quebec were the only provinces to be assigned multiple area codes at the inception of the continent-wide telephone numbering plan. Area code 416 has been split twice. The first came in 1953, when the western portion of 416 (including Kitchener) was combined with the southern portion of area code 613 to form area code 519 .
Beaver Creek is a river in the municipalities of Markham and Richmond Hill in the Regional Municipality of York, part of the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is part of the Great Lakes Basin and is a right tributary of the Rouge River .
The Regional Municipality of Durham (/ ˈ d ʊər ə m /), informally referred to as Durham Region, is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada.Located east of Toronto and the Regional Municipality of York, it forms the east end of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is part of the Golden Horseshoe region.
West Harbour GO Station is a regional rail station in the North End neighbourhood of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. [1] The station has been served by GO Transit's Lakeshore West line since July 9, 2015. [2] There is hourly service between West Harbour and Toronto's Union Station, seven days a week. Via Rail service may eventually be provided. [3]