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Newmarket

Newmarket is a town and regional seat of York Region, Ontario, Canada.

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Newmarket is a town and regional seat of York Region, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area in the Golden Horseshoe region of Southern Ontario. The name stems from the fact that the settlement was a "New Market", in contrast to York as the Old Market.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Newmarket

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Sharon Temple

    The Sharon Temple is an open-air museum site, located in the village of Sharon, Ontario, that was in 1990 designated as a National Historic Site of Canada. It is composed of eight heritage buildings and dwellings, and houses 6,000 artifacts on a 1.8 ha site.

    5 km · sharon's history museum · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Newmarket Canal

    The Newmarket Canal, officially known but rarely referred to as the Holland River Division, is an abandoned barge canal project in Newmarket, Ontario. With a total length of about 10 miles, it was supposed to connect the town to the Trent–Severn Waterway via the East Holland River and Lake Simcoe.

    2.5 km · unfinished canal in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Ray Twinney Complex

    Ray Twinney Recreation Complex is a multi-purpose recreational facility in the southwest portion of Newmarket, Ontario, built in 1985. The complex was named for former Newmarket mayor Ray Twinney.

    2.8 km · arena in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Old Newmarket Town Hall and Courthouse

    Old Newmarket Town Hall and Courthouse is a historic structure in Newmarket, Ontario and served as town hall, county offices and courthouse.

    600 m · town hall in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Upper Canada Mall

    Upper Canada Mall is a shopping mall located in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. The mall is situated on the northwest corner of the Davis Drive West and Yonge Street intersection, and is considered the 25th largest shopping mall in Canada.

    2.1 km · shopping mall in Ontario, Canada · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Newmarket

Airports
Toronto Pearson (YYZ), 45 km · John C. Munro Hamilton (YHM), 106 km · Buffalo Niagara (BUF), 137 km
Stations
East Gwillimbury GO Station, 2.2 km · Holland Landing Airpark, 4.6 km · Newmarket GO Station, 300 m
  • Toronto → Newmarket
    39 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · C$6–8
  • Hamilton → Newmarket
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · NZ$17–23
  • Ottawa → Newmarket
    334 km · quickest by air, 5h 44m · C$160–250
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Newmarket

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Newmarket. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    642 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    849 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,942 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    3,034 km
  5. 05
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,167 km

If you know how people move in Newmarket – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Newmarket

Newmarket is 25 km from Vaughan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.