Civil and Municipal - Jan 2024

A ACTER Explosive growth brings both challenges and opportunities W hitchurch-Stouffville, a small yet vibrant town in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) of Ontario, Canada sits strategically 50 kilometers north of downtown Toronto in the mid-eastern area of the Regional Municipality of York. The site the town sits on was originally inhabited by the Iroquoian peoples, more specifically the Huron-Wendat. Whitchurch Township was created in 1792 and its early settlers included Quakers and Mennonites from the nearby American states of Pennsylvania, Vermont, and New 78 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 5, ISSUE 01