Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill (federal electoral district)

Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada. It elects one member to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. This riding was created in 2015.

Oak Ridges is an unincorporated community of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, and has been part of the city since 1971. It forms the northern portion of the municipality's boundary, where it borders Aurora. Located about 20 km north of the northern border of Toronto and about 35 km from Downtown Toronto, it has a population of 18,520 (2016). The community developed around Lake Wilcox, the largest lake in the area, and has continued to expand slowly since its annexation by the Town (now City) of Richmond Hill. In the 1990s, Oak Ridges experienced moderate growth, which spurred environmental action by numerous organizations. Population has grown significantly as a result of development initiatives along Bayview Avenue. The Oak Ridges Community Center was built and completed in June 2012 to accommodate community demand.It is located north of the main urban area of Richmond Hill (which begins just south of Lake Wilcox), east of King City, immediately south of Aurora, and west of Whitchurch-Stouffville. Oak Ridges can sometimes be considered separate from Richmond Hill, given the differences in current and future development patterns and plans and a large natural area forming a physical separation between Oak Ridges and urban Richmond Hill.

Bond Lake (Ontario) is a 55-acre (22 ha) glacial kettle lake in the Oak Ridges Moraine. It is located on the east side of Yonge Street in the north end of Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Académie de la Moraine is a French first language elementary school located in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. It serves the French population of the GTA. If the French language is not the student's first language, an admission test can be taken, to allow the enrollment. The school also offers busing for students that requires said service. Its former location was 13200 Yonge Street in Richmond Hill. However, after George Street P.S. closed, Moraine took up its space. George St P.S students went to Aurora Senior/Wellington P.S. Nonetheless, in 2019, after remodelling, reconstruction, and upgrading the school facilities, the school has returned to its previous address — 13200 Yonge Street. In the past, the school have had some split classes, such as a class with both grade 5 and 6 at the same time.

Philips Lake is a small kettle lake in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. It is inside the Oak Ridges Corridor Conservation Reserve on the Oak Ridges Moraine. The lake belongs to the Philips-Bond-Thompson Wetland Complex and covers 11 hectares with a maximum depth of 28.5 metres (94 ft) and an average depth of 6.2 metres (20 ft).

Lake Wilcox is a kettle lake in the Oak Ridges neighbourhood of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. The lake measures 1.5 kilometers across and covers 55.6 hectares or 0.55 square kilometres, making it the largest kettle lake on the Oak Ridges Moraine. Lake Wilcox, Lake St. George and their associated wetlands form a "provincially significant wetland".The lake is named after William Willcocks (1735/36-1813), who was a merchant in York, Upper Canada and became mayor of Cork, Ireland in 1793 (after his return from Upper Canada). Willcocks and his family moved to Upper Canada, where his cousin Peter Russell became interim administrator after the departure of John Graves Simcoe in 1796. Willcocks "was an active land speculator" who acquired significant holdings in Upper Canada, including 800 acres (3.2 km2) surrounding the lake. The name of the lake was originally Lake Willcocks, but it was corrupted over time to its present spelling.Willcocks resided in York and Markham, but died in the former in 1813.

Cardinal Carter Catholic High School, often shortened to Cardinal Carter, is an International Baccalaureate high school in Aurora, Ontario, Canada in the York Catholic District School Board. Cardinal Carter was established in 1989, commencing operation for grades eight and nine at Our Lady of the Annunciation elementary school. Once construction of the school was completed, service boundaries were defined by the school board to alleviate overcrowding of other Roman Catholic schools in the region, notably St. Robert and St. Elizabeth high schools in Thornhill, and Sacred Heart Catholic High School in Newmarket. It takes its name after Cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter, former archbishop of Toronto. It is also sometimes confused with Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts.

Temperanceville is an unincorporated community in the Regional Municipality of York in Ontario, Canada, straddling two geopolitical jurisdictions, King and Richmond Hill. It is located at the southeastern edge of King and northwestern part of Richmond Hill, east of King City and adjacent to the western part of Oak Ridges. The settlement became home to James and Mary Love in 1804, the former being a cobbler and farmer who was also a teetotaler.: 104  Their home would be used for church services, leading to the settlement being named 'Love's Corner'.: 104  The settlement also had an active temperance movement, with at least five temperance societies active in the area by the 1890s.: 104  Its name was changed in the early 1900s when the prohibition campaign became popular through the promotion of 'temperance values'. This campaign would later help cripple the hotel industry in the area. Temperanceville would grow to boast a post office, several businesses, and a market. Today, the most popular part of Temperanceville is the Temperanceville Park, which now has ample parking, a soccer field, and a large children's play area. In King Township, it is part of electoral Ward 1.

Lake St. George is a kettle lake in Richmond Hill, Ontario and now located in the conservation area managed by the Toronto Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). The lake is named for Henri St. George, French-born son of French Royalist, and one-time settler in Upper Canada Quetton St. George. Henri St. George settled in Upper Canada in 1847 and established his Glen Lonely estate in Richmond Hill, which contained the lake that bears his name.

Pardes Chaim Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. Opened in 2010, it is owned and operated by Toronto Hebrew Memorial Parks (THMP), a community-owned not-for-profit organization serving the Jewish community of the Greater Toronto Area. Located on Bathurst Street north of Elgin Mills Road, the cemetery was established to provide additional burial capacity for the Toronto region after THMP's earlier Pardes Shalom Cemetery began nearing capacity. Pardes Chaim is the largest Jewish cemetery in the Greater Toronto Area.

Mon Sheong Foundation Chinese School is a fee-operated private school, with focus on promoting Chinese culture, heritage, and philosophy. The MSFCS was created in 1968 by the Mon Sheong Foundation in Toronto and uses Cantonese/Putonghua as the language of instruction. Today MSFCS offers additional programs including: Chinese (Cantonese) Program for children over the age of 3 Chinese (Putonghua) Program for children over the age of 3 Conversational Putonghua Program Mathematics Program for grades 1 to 12Programs run on Friday evenings and Saturdays from September to May. Instructors are mainly college graduates from Hong Kong, China and Canada.

Richmond Hill High School is a secondary school located in the City of Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. It is the second oldest high school in York Region Municipality (and behind Newmarket High School c. 1843), being established in the mid-19th century. The school is a host to several regional special education programs, including an Advanced Placement Program, Alternative Education Program, Cooperative Education Program, Developmentally-Delayed Program, and an Orthopedic Program. The school has a small gifted program along with all other secondary schools in York Region.In the 2016-2017 Fraser Institute rankings, Richmond Hill ranked 19th in the province of Ontario and 7th in York Region, with an overall score of 8.7/10.