Queensville, Ontario

"Queensville" redirects here. For the small community in the United States, see Queensville, Indiana.

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

Queensville
Unincorporated community
Coordinates: 44°8′19″N 79°27′1″W
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Regional municipality	York
Town	East Gwillimbury
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Forward sortation area	L0G
Area codes	905 and 289
NTS Map	31D3 Newmarket
GNBC Code	FCJBR

History

Originally named Four Corners and Hackett's Corners (after William Hackett owner of a general store^[1]), it was renamed as Queensville in 1843 to honour Queen Victoria.^[2]

Overview

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 park with softball diamond, tennis courts and playground. Guy Paul Morin and Christine Jessop were neighbours in Queensville in 1984, and John Candy once owned a home approximately 1 km south of Queensville.

At one time, there were plans to build Ontario's first private university in Queensville. The site for the proposed university would have been east of Leslie on the north side of Queensville side road. It was expected that the university would occupy 65 acres (0.102 sq mi; 0.26 km²) and employ 1,000 people.^[3]

Queensville was home to the largest Antique Mall in York Region. The mall closed in the fall of 2019.

Geography

Statistics Canada 2006 census population for all of East Gwillimbury 21,069.

• Population approximately 3% of total East Gwillimbury population 632
• Name of inhabitants: - Queensvillians

Surrounding communities

• Holland Landing, to the west
• Keswick, to the north
• Mount Albert, to the east
• Sharon, to the south

Notable natives and resident

• Christine Jessop, notable homicide victim murdered in 1984.

See also

• Royal eponyms in Canada