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- ↑ "Dickson Hill Cemetery, Markham". Yorkregion.com.
- ↑ See Isabel Champion, ed., Markham: 1793-1900 (Markham, ON: Markham Historical Society, 1979), 184f.; also Black Creek Pioneer Village, Buildings: Dickson's Hill School 1861 Archived 2010-04-12 at the Wayback Machine . See also the detailed 1878 map, "Township of Markham," Illustrated historical atlas of the county of York and the township of West Gwillimbury & town of Bradford in the county of Simcoe, Ont. (Toronto: Miles & Co., 1878).
- ↑ Cf. Transport Canada, Plan Showing Pickering Airport Site; also Greater Toronto Airports Authority, Pickering Airport Draft Plan Report, 2004. By comparison, Toronto Pearson International Airport had 32.3 million passengers in 2008, with an average of 1,179 "aircraft movements" per day (GTTA, Toronto Pearson Fast Facts [ dead link ].
- ↑ See GTAA, "Needs Assessment Study Pickering Lands: Final Report," March 2011, fig. 12.1 & par. 12.4.3; also Transport Canada, News Release: "Transport Canada releases findings of the 2010 Pickering Lands Needs Assessment Study Archived November 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine ," July 11, 2011; S. Bolan, "Stouffville politicians mixed over airport plan," Stouffville Sun-Tribune, July 13, 2011.
- ↑ "Proposed Road Closure - Dickson Hill Road".
- ↑ https://yrdsb.civicweb.net/document/62541 [ bare URL PDF ]
- ↑ "Dickson's Hill School - Black Creek Pioneer Village". 10 March 2017.
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