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1   present infrastructure is in place. For Richmond Hill, that could be the end of the 1920s. By that

2   is somewhat arbitrary. The evolution of Richmond Hill certainly did not cease in the decade of the

3   themes and issues that will dominate Richmond Hill life in subsequent decades. How did the

4   Ridges of the 1920s? Is the enlarged Richmond Hill of today one community or many

5   Days in Richmond Hill: A History of the Community to 1930 tells

6   two-hundred-year-old main street of Richmond Hill. GO Bus shelters of the 1990s are transformed

7  Richmond Hill residents of the early nineteenth century

8   has left its mark on the history of Richmond Hill. In fact, without the highway, there would

9   Population figures rise annually on the Richmond Hill town limits sign near Langstaff Road.

10   spires that dominated the village of Richmond Hill in the latter years of the nineteenth century

11   traffic slows through the core of old Richmond Hill, we are surrounded by more reminders of former

12   quite separate from its southern neighbour, Richmond Hill.

13   changes. Here, in the northern half of Richmond Hill, development thins and vistas of the

14   Bloomington Road the highway leaves Richmond Hill's town limits, enters the Town of Aurora,

15   Street has been the spinal cord of Richmond Hill. The community's pioneer settlers struggled up

16   Story, McGraw-Hill Ryerson The road through Richmond Hill was initially planned for military and

17   for the future community of Richmond Hill, the most decisive leg of Simcoe's

18   role in Richmond Hill's history was brief but significant. His

19   in Richmond Hill history as a builder of Yonge Street and

20   into early settlement activity in the Richmond Hill area.

21   through the core of present-day Richmond Hill, although he made no comments about individual

22   and entering the present town limits of Richmond Hill, Jones

23   drive, an important element of Richmond Hill's history has scarcely been noted - native

24   - the spinal cord of the Europeans' Richmond Hill - for a closer look at the woodland trails

25   Metropolitan Railway, southbound through Richmond Hill, with the Trench Carriage Works

26   half a century of failed efforts, Richmond Hill finally had its railway. The line had been

27   show their gratitude, Richmond Hill residents entertained railway officials and

28   electric service to Richmond Hill began on February 1. The company offered four

29   Metropolitan brought instant change to Richmond Hill. Thompson's stagecoach went out of business as

30   running," predicted the Toronto World, Richmond Hill "will assume more the character of a suburb

31   Richmond Hill proved merely a temporary northern terminus

32   north. To prepare for service beyond Richmond Hill, the Metropolitan Railway in 1899 built

33   of being bypassed by the steam railway, Richmond Hill now welcomed the interurban electric line as

34   dominated Yonge Street through Richmond Hill. The road was constructed to a standard

35   at places like Hogg's Hollow. Even in Richmond Hill, the line encountered a steep northbound grade

36   hour. 10 The radial era had come to Richmond Hill.

37   (about ten miles) farther north, to Richmond Hill.

38   along Yonge Street - one crew at Richmond Hill, a second at Thornhill, and a third at

39   crew encountered some heavy going near Richmond Hill, where special ploughs were employed to clear

40   of Yonge Street, from the Richmond Hill bakery to beyond St. Mary Immaculate

41   Bay) to survey the line so as to touch at Richmond Hill, he was on the first deputation appointed by

42   Many of the prominent citizens at Richmond Hill showed their interest in the railroad by

43   a little of Scarboro, not forgetting Richmond Hill.

44   Canadian National line through Richmond Hill.

45   view of Richmond Hill, 1919. National Archives of Canada PA 22796

46   Mackenzie. But that mattered little to Richmond Hill. The important point was that steam was

47   this steam line captured most of the Richmond Hill-to-Toronto freight business from the electric

48   Yonge Street and the centre of Richmond Hill, the steam railway helped open up the east

49   the early years of Richmond Hill's steam railway, however, the Canadian

50   about halfway between the centre of old Richmond Hill and the community of Gormley - where the

51   Stouffville Road and within today's Richmond Hill.

52   stops within the boundaries of present-day Richmond Hill were:

53   avenues Stop 23 Lot 40 Stop 24 Mill Road Stop 25 Richmond Hill (Lorne Avenue) Stop 26 Richmond Hill

54   and Langstaff. Soon, the spires of Richmond Hill's churches come into

55  Richmond Hill, the Metropolitan Railway Guide Book and Time

56   Guide Book singles out the following Richmond Hill attractions: a "well-equipped Fire

57   of Richmond Hill and Elgin Mills, the "well-tilled lands

58   half. A ninth early morning run served the Richmond Hill-Toronto commuter

59   heavy grades between Toronto and Richmond Hill, at a speed varying from 6 to 12 miles

60   Richmond Hill Hardware Company welcomes the arrival of

61   Richmond Hill's decision to obtain power from the

62   was installed there in the late 1880s. Richmond Hill's first telephone exchange was established at

63   the first electric lighting recorded in Richmond Hill. That August, as a public relations gesture,

64   was workable, but as so often happened in Richmond Hill's municipal life, it took a while for the

65   30, electric streetlights came on in Richmond Hill. Savage's furniture store ("The People's

66   first milk delivery business in the area. Richmond Hill had caught up with the rest of urban Ontario,

67   to induce industries to locate in Richmond Hill. In keeping with tradition, however, little

68   Reunion. Otherwise, it was an all-male Richmond Hill that captured public attention on that first

69   Richmond Hill of 1911 had the image of a "village that

70   church parade, June 13, 1915. In Richmond Hill as in communities throughout the country,

71   1858-1943 Clerk of the Village of Richmond Hill But the war's greatest impact was, of course, the

72   the idea of erecting a memorial to Richmond Hill men killed in the war. Community residents

73   P.G. Savage family of Richmond Hill, pictured in 1909. Left to right are

74   view of Richmond Hill's greenhouses in the 1930s, looking west from

75   made the village famous and became Richmond Hill's major employer. By 1939, the industry was

76   time of Graham's death in 1924, Richmond Hill was a village rejuvenated.

77   prosper,it became a more distinct part of Richmond Hill's identity, and was eventually written into the

78   Palmer's farm on the east side of Richmond Hill. There, on the village's sunny eastern slope,

79   completed, Lawrence's Richmond Hill operation included five greenhouse buildings,

80   not rosy for William Lawrence in Richmond Hill. In January 1913, a section of the roof of his

81   contributions to Richmond Hill had extended beyond his own business. Not

82   the men of Richmond Hill used the new Horticultural Society to

83   its monthly programs, the Richmond Hill branch supported the "Votes for Women"

84   formal public networks available to Richmond Hill women were their various church groups. But

85   on the sale of intoxicating liquors - did Richmond Hill women find a forum with the potential to

86   major vehicle for women's interests in Richmond Hill. From the founding of the first WI in Stoney

87   be forgotten by the residents of Richmond Hill, but will be treasured in their hearts as an

88   (to the left) from the midday sun. When Richmond Hill's old-timers gathered for the municipality's

89   and hockey fever hit the village. Richmond Hill teams played in the Metropolitan

90   all Richmond Hill's new structures, the recently completed

91   by the 1920s. The new generation of Richmond Hill youth and adults wanted a more comfortable

92   Langstaff recalled what it was like to own Richmond Hill's first automobile back in the year

93   iron rails which carried trains through Richmond Hill between York Mills and

94   Jefferson Post Office between Richmond Hill and Oak Ridges. They recorded an average

95   Yonge Street through Richmond Hill in 1927. Department of Public Highways of

96   looked more like the northern end of Richmond Hill than a separate hamlet. Oak Ridges was

97   increased mobility of the 1920s brought Richmond Hill and its neighbouring hamlets closer to the

98   horseless carriage to pass through Richmond Hill, and in 1902 Dr. Rolph Langstaff

99   Garnet H. Duncan as magistrate for Richmond Hill's first traffic

100   pavement was laid from Toronto north to Richmond Hill, replacing the old nineteenth-century

101   to end radial service on Yonge Street. Richmond Hill and other communities along the line mounted

102   of Yonge Street that ran from Richmond Hill south to the Toronto city limits. The

103   years. Hourly service continued between Richmond Hill and Toronto, half-hourly in peak periods. The

104   of the Incorporation of the Village of Richmond Hill and the reunion of Old Boys and

105   opinion is freely expressed that Richmond Hill now has a building that is a credit to the

106   highly visible structures that marked Richmond Hill's transformation from a sleepy

107   Street. Half a century earlier, Richmond Hill had boasted the only high school between

108   Richmond Hill residents gathered in front of the

109   chosen to lead the parade that launched Richmond Hill's fiftieth anniversary of incorporation and the

110   no taste treat. During her first visits to Richmond Hill in the early 1920s, community historian

111   1924, for example, Dr. Wilson warned Richmond Hill residents that village water was unsafe for

112   Dr. Wilson set up practice in Richmond Hill in the fall of 1918, during the bad

113   concern through the 1920s. Of the 1316 Richmond Hill, Markham Township, and Markham Village school

114   back fences and around dinner tables in Richmond Hill through the 1920s. Yet in each case, the

115   industry still providing a major impetus, Richmond Hill continued to grow during the 1920s.

116   Glasgow, Scotland, in 1858, Hume arrived in Richmond Hill in 1879, where he established a tailoring

117   the rose growers came to the rescue of Richmond Hill.

118   Ontario, and likely through today's Richmond Hill, sometime between 9000 and 7000 B.C., after

119   had located fourteen sites within Richmond Hill as having Archaic-period

120   into the Early Iroquoian period of Richmond Hill's prehistory. The Iroquoian peoples

121   earliest Iroquoian site (A.D. 1280-1320) in Richmond Hill documented by archaeologists is situated on

122   that Palaeo-Indians were in Richmond Hill at one

123   of Richmond Hill, showing the Oak Ridges Moraine

124   artifact within the town of Richmond Hill - although the more recently explored

125   moved through southern Ontario and the Richmond Hill area. They relied on a more diversified

126   of Richmond Hill. Archaeological Services Inc. The area was

127   area. These Iroquoians inhabited the entire Richmond Hill area during the fifteenth and sixteenth

128   century of Late Iroquoian occupation in Richmond Hill. 17

129   18 Yet Iroquoian occupation of the Richmond Hill area ended in approximately 1550 A.D. It

130  Richmond Hill's best documented Late Iroquoian village -

131   is only one of several Richmond Hill Late Iroquoian villages dating from the years

132   the larger story of Iroquoian occupation of Richmond Hill. Born in Scotland in 1842, he immigrated to

133   as if the link between twentieth-century Richmond Hill and its native Indian past was

134   amateur archaeologist and resident of Richmond Hill, began a series of recorded visits to the

135   project. Support came from the Town of Richmond Hill, the Local Architectural Conservation

136   of the Late Iroquoian occupation of Richmond Hill.

137   the Mississauga Indians alone controlled Richmond Hill, the entire York Region, and in effect what is

138   the Peterborough and Niagara areas, leaving Richmond Hill and the Toronto Purchase to their European

139   to the head of the Bay of Quinte. For Richmond Hill, the most important transaction began in

140   Street within the boundaries of modern Richmond Hill, Balsar and Katharine Munshaw probably

141   the heart of the future village of Richmond Hill. North of the Shaw property on the east side

142   settler in the Oak Ridges area of Richmond Hill, Bond spent most of his time in York,

143   of 1794. They passed beyond the present Richmond Hill town centre and camped along a tributary

144   the future community of Richmond Hill faced particular disadvantages compared to

145   Founding of Richmond Hill." Unveiling of an historical plaque in front

146   them outside the boundaries of modern-day Richmond Hill, several of their children would later play

147   was too brief for them to be called Richmond Hill's first settlers, the John Stooks family

148   year of the eighteenth century, a pioneer Richmond Hill family stands in front of their cabin,

149   thank you very much, as the pioneers of Richmond Hill.

150   friends from New York who came to the Richmond Hill area two years earlier. Today, we have walked

151  Richmond Hill's early European settlement was not confined to

152   of the southeastern part of present-day Richmond Hill. Among them, according to Berczy's

153   Street in the southeastern part of Richmond Hill, and along the fourth, fifth, and sixth

154   for themselves and their descendants in Richmond Hill's history. Unfortunately, a lack of such

155   Henry, who played a role in Richmond Hill's history in later years. As a young man,

156   a community nucleus - the future village of Richmond Hill.

157   Drive north through the core of modern Richmond Hill. The hamlet was named after the father-and-son

158   important for the future development of Richmond Hill was the tavern Miles opened at the

159   Abner's status as the "father" of Richmond Hill. The marriages of his daughters Hannah

160   tranquil existence of a country squire. For Richmond Hill, the move proved crucial: the Miles

161   before travelling north to their land at Richmond Hill - and quickly became a focal point for

162   Carrville Road in the 1820s. The Richmond Hill Historical Society leases Burr House from

163   Jenkins, Presbyterian minister at Richmond Hill from 1817 to 1843, as drawn by A.J. Clark

164   walked all the way from Caledon East to Richmond Hill - a six-day round trip - just to have

165   But he continued preaching at Richmond Hill until two weeks before his death on September

166   known in later years as the "Pride of Richmond Hill." The official history of the Richmond

167   over to another preacher and made Richmond Hill the centre of his activities. But that did

168   name was replaced by a new label - Richmond Hill. Perhaps James Miles had done

169   Barnard, first school teacher in Richmond Hill; tombstone in Richmond Hill

170   separate versions of the origin of Richmond Hill's name, or is there a link between the two? Did

171   Ontario Land Surveyors And which "English" Richmond Hill provided the inspiration? Barnard's

172   Elgin Mills Road had a new name - Richmond Hill. That name would be confirmed in future years

173   and in mid-July he made a stopover at Richmond Hill. According to tradition, the Governor General

174   name lingered on at Richmond Hill, as place-name authorities continually assure

175   change of name from Miles' Hill to Richmond Hill. National Archives of Canada, C-8997 Yet

176   on Geographic Names, another explanation of Richmond Hill's name has long endured. This alternate account

177  Richmond Hill's first schoolhouse. First, the

178   two miles up the Street to the top of Richmond Hill." There they found a "little centre of

179   Gapper was impressed with the speed of Richmond Hill's advance towards becoming a more mature

180   4 Land values rose throughout the Richmond Hill area, especially along Yonge Street

181   side of Yonge Street just north of Richmond Hill. Sometime in 1836, Captain Larratt

182   impressed travellers who passed through Richmond Hill during the 1830s. Journeying along "a very

183   between these two groups helped divide Richmond Hill's population along political lines into parties

184   ridings included parts of present-day Richmond Hill: the First Riding (Vaughan and King

185   men coming down Yonge Street through Richmond Hill broke into smaller groups and hid their arms

186   district including present-day Richmond Hill and all of York, together with

187   at Mrs. O'Hearne's Tavern in Richmond Hill to nominate Mackenzie and

188   candidates. Such was a typical Richmond Hill political meeting in the years preceding the

189   Sinclair assumed his duties as Richmond Hill's first postmaster on January 6, 1836. He

190   office was most significant in Richmond Hill's evolution from pioneer hamlet to settled

191   west side of Yonge Street, just north of Richmond Hill village. Stewart was a retired British naval

192   of about 75 passed me, going towards Richmond Hill," Stewart recounted. "It immediately occurred

193   Yonge Street, a rallying point for Richmond Hill loyalists on December 4, 1837. National

194   main band of rebels in the centre of Richmond Hill.

195   War of 1812 and prominent member of the Richmond Hill community, who accompanied Colonel

196   were the rebels of Richmond Hill? What sort of men answered Mackenzie's

197   on twenty-three known loyalists from the Richmond Hill area. Some of these names are familiar:

198   Stagg found the loyalists of Richmond Hill to be older (at least four were known to be

199   Jenkins, the religious patriarch of Richmond Hill for so many years? What was his position in

200   Tavern and made his way home to Richmond Hill. On Thursday, December 7 - perhaps after

201   William Jenkins: Jenkins continued as Richmond Hill's Presbyterian preacher until his death in 1843.

202   to enjoy prominent status in the village of Richmond Hill. Earlier, he had built a two-storey log

203   October 15, 1838, a meeting was held in Richmond Hill where the farmers and settlers of

204   had been many rebel sympathizers in the Richmond Hill area, the Tories maintained control of

205   Miller was an eleven-year-old Richmond Hill schoolboy in December 1837. He heard shots

206   racing action at the annual Richmond Hill Spring Fair. Richmond Hill proved a

207   by a publicly administered system. Richmond Hill's children moved from their old log school

208  Richmond Hill Public School, opened in 1847, pictured in

209   But Smith also found Richmond Hill a challenge as he collected details for his

210   more predictable communities, leaving Richmond Hill to its own peculiar existence. Had either

211   was a busy community. By 1851, Richmond Hill boasted eight storekeepers, five innkeepers,

212   enjoy itself. Everyone turned out for Richmond Hill's first spring fair, sponsored by the

213  Richmond Hill Methodist Church, dedicated on July 1,

214   James Dick, minister of the Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church, 1847-1877. Village

215   of Thomas Kinnear, victim of Richmond Hill's most celebrated murder case in July 1843.

216   Dalby's Tavern), a mainstay of Richmond Hill's nineteenth-century hospitality industry.

217  Richmond Hill was ideally situated to serve this Yonge

218   Raymond's Tavern on Lot 49 West in Richmond Hill was a regular stop for the mail stage

219   structure in the village. It was also Richmond Hill's only early inn known to continue in operation

220   Jr. By mid-century, the fortunes of Richmond Hill's hotels were linked with the prosperity of

221   of travellers, stagecoach operators, and Richmond Hill hotelkeepers. Macadamization was pushed north

222   its line six kilometres to the west of Richmond Hill, bypassing the village and disrupting the

223   Richmond Hill did survive. Because the "Richmond

224   before, ownership of the Richmond Hill-to-Toronto stagecoach line changed hands

225   Thompson's Richmond Hill-to-Toronto stagecoach, 1880-1896. After that,

226   Richmond Hill itself, however, the stagecoach days had

227   Although the station was officially named "Richmond Hill," it lay six kilometres (about four miles) west

228   connections between Richmond Hill, Thornhill, Kleinburg, and the new

229   "Bus Line" ran stagecoaches between Richmond Hill and Toronto in 1876, despite competition

230   of stations at Weston, Thornhill (Concord), Richmond Hill (Maple), and Machell's Corners (Aurora).

231   turned out to see the novel sight. At Richmond Hill, they walked or rode their horses or drove

232   new train service turned to gloom at Richmond Hill. The surveyors and engineers had run the line

233   itself did not suffer for bypassing Richmond Hill, for it was able to tap the rich commerce that

234   was housed in the store from 1900 onwards. Richmond Hill survived the railway bypass in part because

235   the heart of old Richmond Hill - but within or at the margin of the town's

236   of Richmond Hill, along or to the west of today's Bathurst

237   was very closely linked with Richmond Hill. Business generated by Patterson

238   and would eventually cripple much of Richmond Hill's hotel

239   these smaller communities, plus Richmond Hill itself, drew much of their strength from the

240   short, the news from Richmond Hill's neighbouring regions seemed entirely

241   dispensed medicine in Richmond Hill from 1849 to 1973. Two sideroads south of

242   for travellers on the road between Richmond Hill and Toronto. The tollhouse and gate stood on

243   Corners with eighteenth-century Richmond Hill, then the Langstaff family itself linked

244   on the right. Just one sideroad north of Richmond Hill, where Elgin Mills Road today intersects

245   corner. It was a major employer of Richmond Hill labour in the later decades of the

246   oldest church edifice in present-day Richmond Hill.

247   century, Oak Ridges would become Richmond Hill's major northern commercial and residential

248   from a map prepared by Ruth Reaman. East of Richmond Hill, on present-day Leslie Street just

249   townships proved a mixed blessing to a Richmond Hill still struggling to establish its own civic

250   again, the Richmond Hill petitioners were defeated. While the proposed

251   ideal, and it was third time lucky for Richmond Hill. A petition signed by nearly every ratepayer

252   for the York Herald, touting Richmond Hill as the ideal community of York County.

253   of Richmond Hill in 1878. Ted Chirnside, Richmond

254  Richmond Hill and vicinity in 1878. Local

255   and attentions away from the core of the Richmond Hill community. Any Vaughan council

256   such divided loyalties, Richmond Hill thought of itself as a community and a number

257   government, and that could only happen in Richmond Hill if the settlement was incorporated as a

258   that supported the incorporation of Richmond Hill as a village. National Archives of Canada,

259   Trench Carriage Works was Richmond Hill's largest industrial establishment and most

260   and in 1857 set up his own business in Richmond Hill.

261   Trench Carriage Works, Richmond Hill's largest employer during the 1870s. Trench's

262   in community life, serving as reeve of Richmond Hill from 1875 to 1879 and again in 1881-82. He

263   sampling of business cards from Richmond Hill, 1878. Bookplate and rules from the

264   were the occupations of the Richmond Hill men listed in Nason's 1871 County of

265   most Ontario villages of the period, Richmond Hill supported a variety of professions and

266   less structured view of Richmond Hill in the early 1870s is provided by Fred

267   their tools and put away their aprons, Richmond Hill offered a variety of organized leisure

268   of the newly incorporated village of Richmond Hill went to the polls to elect their first

269   Law solicits votes for reeve in Richmond Hill's first municipal election. The five

270   in the newly incorporated village of Richmond Hill in 1873. C.W. Jefferys, The Picture

271   Law, first reeve of Richmond Hill, 1873. " Richmond Villa," home

272  Richmond Hill residents interpreted that move as showing an

273   William Harrison was Richmond Hill's second reeve in 1874. In spite of decisions

274   William Harrison in 1889, Richmond Hill council had laid sidewalks along principal

275   the first civic elections. He was elected Richmond Hill's second reeve in 1874, however, and during

276   was appointed postmaster of Richmond Hill on December 3, 1850, and for the next

277   years later young Mr. Law moved to Richmond Hill, where he established himself as a general

278   established a medical practice in Richmond Hill a few years later. Through his skill as a

279   (about two miles) north of Richmond Hill. Nine months later, William's

280   brigade and was a founding member of the Richmond Hill Mechanics' Institute and Literary Society. He

281   of Sunday, April 15, 1866, while most Richmond Hill residents were worshipping in church, fire

282   which prospered for years to come as Richmond Hill residents continued to buy dry goods and

283   April 23, 1866, another fire threatened Richmond Hill. This blaze originated in the senior

284   third fire must have jolted Richmond Hill's reluctant donors into action, for by August,

285   and the company languished between fires. Richmond Hill was fortunate to escape any major blazes like

286   its incorporation as a village in 1873, Richmond Hill now had an official body that could provide

287   some measure of long-term stability in Richmond Hill's fire-fighting activity. The new company

288   in November 1857; this building erected in 1894. Richmond Hill's Roman Catholics lagged behind the

289   to St. Mary's parishioners, and to all Richmond Hill residents, the forty-five-year-old priest was

290   St. Mary Immaculate Roman Catholic Church. Richmond Hill's several churches offered more than Sunday

291   temperance and prohibition movements, Richmond Hill's hospitality industry was a mere shadow of its

292   the end of the 1890s, Richmond Hill's most definitive physical structures were

293   of this recent capital investment in Richmond Hill's spiritual properties - especially for the

294   dedication of a new organ at the Richmond Hill Presbyterian Church in 1915. Pictured left to

295   Church tower still dominates the skyline of Richmond Hill.

296   Reverend Robert Shanklin, Richmond Hill's Anglicans threatened to outdo the village's

297   fond of novel reading and flirting. Richmond Hill, rather pretty, very sociable, and somewhat

298   a number of young people from near Richmond Hill were returning home from a party in

299   thieves in Richmond Hill? Some evilly-disposed or miserable person went

300   Victoria Day, the 24th of May, was easily Richmond Hill's grandest secular holiday during the 1880s.

301   produced a severe economic shock for Richmond Hill. After losing both a major employer and a

302   loss, commercial activity in Richmond Hill remained relatively stable throughout the

303   of harvesting machinery ever witnessed in Richmond Hill," commented The Liberal, "and the feeling

304   three kilometres, or two miles, west of Richmond Hill. It was a major employer of village labour,

305   to Dundas, and eventually settled in Richmond Hill, where they operated out of the building that

306   to slip from us." 8 In June 1886, Richmond Hill village council offered a $10,000 bonus

307   Maxwell. (1805-1922). Richmond Hill's and Canada's oldest citizen at the time of

308   a while in Toronto, then settled in Richmond Hill.

309   James Langstaff provided a link with Richmond Hill's earliest beginnings as a community. Born

310   Thomas Franklin McMahon arrived in Richmond Hill in 1878 as principal of the Public

311   became the sole newspaper of Richmond Hill. For more than forty years, until his death

312   just about everything that went on in Richmond Hill.

313   June 4, 1885, Richmond Hill's "Young Canadians" lacrosse team trounced

314   Young Canadians, Richmond Hill's championship lacrosse team of the 1880s.

315   reminded of the existence of a place called Richmond Hill."

316   was located on the north end of this building. Richmond Hill's municipal council reflected the settled pace

317   Even before Victoria's death, however, Richmond Hill had glimpsed aspects of the faster-paced

318   of Richmond Hill's leading business and professional men sat on

319   successive councils responded to Richmond Hill's needs through the last two decades of the old

320   of the municipal building of the Town of Richmond Hill. Certificate showing that Gertrude

321   local government continued to shape life in Richmond Hill. Shortly after four o'clock in the afternoon

322   Victoria had been a pervasive spirit in Richmond Hill for as long as most residents could remember.

323   as Queen and Empress, residents of Richmond Hill grieved her death and mourned the passing of

324  Richmond Hill Men Who Served in the First World

325  Richmond Hill's Fiftieth Birthday:

326  Richmond Hill's One Hundredth Birthday:

327   Days in Richmond Hill

328   Kites on Richmond's Hill

329   of the waterworks in 1921 inspired a Richmond Hill bard to send this bit of doggerel in to the

330   Women of Richmond Hill

331   Richmond Hill to

332  Richmond Hill's Lacrosse

333   today, and its name is perpetuated in Richmond Hill itself by Carrville Road. Joseph

334   of an old English folk song, "The Lass of Richmond Hill." So he reportedly taught each of his school

335   Women Who Shaped Late-Ninetenth-Century Richmond Hill

336   Late Iroquoian Village in Richmond Hill

337   Bloom in Richmond Hill

338   of Age in Richmond Hill

339   Comes to Richmond Hill

340   Life in Richmond Hill

341  Richmond Hill's Earliest

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