Editing Newmarket, Ontario (section)

===Recent developments===
For much of the 20th century, Newmarket developed along the east-west Davis Drive axis, limited to the area between Yonge Street on the west and between Bayview and Leslie Street in the east, and running from just north of Davis on the north to the Fairy Lake area on the south. By the 1950s, Newmarket was experiencing a suburban building boom due to its proximity to Toronto. The population increased from 5,000 to 11,000 between 1950 and 1970.

The [[Regional Municipality of York]] was formed in 1971, increasing the size of Newmarket with land from the Township of East Gwillimbury, from the Township of King and from the Township of Whitchurch. 
<ref name="newmarket.ca"/> The construction of [[Upper Canada Mall]] at the corner of Yonge Street and Davis Drive in 1974 started pulling the focal point of the town westward from the historic Downtown area along Main Street.

By the early 1980s, the historic Downtown area suffered as most businesses had built up in the area around Upper Canada Mall, with additional [[strip mall]]s developing directly across the Yonge Street/Davis Drive intersection to the south and southeast. A concerted effort to revitalize the historic Downtown area during the late 1980s was successful. More recently, a $2.3-million investment was made by the town in 2004 in streetscaping and infrastructure improvements to roads and sidewalks in the historic Downtown. The historic area of Downtown's Main Street is once again a major focal point of the town.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thespec.com/news-story/6953845-newmarket-main-street-wins-great-places-in-canada-award/|title=Newmarket Main Street wins Great Places in Canada award|first=Chris|last=Simon|date=November 8, 2016|access-date=May 1, 2018|via=www.thespec.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501154111/https://www.thespec.com/news-story/6953845-newmarket-main-street-wins-great-places-in-canada-award/|archive-date=May 1, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/life/2015/09/21/story-pod-the-latest-addition-to-newmarkets-revitalized-downtown.html|title=Story Pod the latest addition to Newmarket's revitalized downtown - The Star|newspaper=The Toronto Star|date=September 21, 2015|access-date=May 1, 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124205046/http://www.thestar.com/life/2015/09/21/story-pod-the-latest-addition-to-newmarkets-revitalized-downtown.html|archive-date=January 24, 2016|last1=Micallef|first1=Shawn}}</ref>

The arrival of [[Ontario Highway 404|Highway 404]] reversed the westward movement, pulling development eastward again, and surrounding the formerly separate hamlet of [[Bogarttown, Ontario|Bogarttown]] at the intersection of Mulock Drive and Leslie Street.<ref name="Carter">{{cite book|title=Stories of Newmarket: An Old Ontario Town|last=Carter|first=Robert Terence|publisher=[[Dundurn Press]]|year=2011|isbn=9781554888801
}}</ref><!-- page 50 --> Since then, Newmarket has grown considerably, filling out in all directions. The town limits now run from [[Bathurst Street (Toronto)|Bathurst Street]] in the west to Highway 404 in the east, and from just south of Green Lane to just north of St. John's Sideroad, taking over the former hamlet of Armitage at Yonge Street south of Mulock Drive. The southern boundary of the town is contiguous with [[Aurora, Ontario|Aurora]] to the south.

Armitage was the first settlement of [[King, Ontario|King]] township, named in honour of its first settler Amos Armitage.<ref name="Carter" /><!-- page 50 --> He had been recruited by Timothy Rogers, a [[Loyalist (American Revolution)|Loyalist]] from [[Vermont]], who in 1801 had travelled along Yonge Street and found the area appealing, and so applied for and received a grant for land totalling 40 farms, each of {{convert|200|acre|km2|1}}.

Other defunct communities once located within the modern boundaries of Newmarket include Garbut's Hill, Paddytown, Petchville, Pleasantville, and White Rose.<ref name="Carter" /><!-- page 51-52 -->