Alliston, Ontario

Alliston, Ontario is an Ontario community just about 90 kilometers from Toronto, and about 40 km SW of Barrie, about 18 km W of Cookstown, about 10 km N of Tottenham, about 40 km NE of Orangeville and about 30 km E of Shelburne. It is part of the Town of New Tecumseth which is part of Simcoe County. (The 1991 amalgamation of Alliston, nearby villages Beeton and Tottenham, and the Township of Tecumseth, created one legal municipality, the Town of New Tecumseth. Municipal offices for the Town are located in Alliston.) The heart of the community is divided by Highway 89. It was founded in 1847 by English immigrant William Fletcher.

Geography

• Population: 9,679 (2001)
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• Postal code: L9R 1N8
• Area code: +1-705
• Elevation: about 200 m
• Name of inhabitants: Allistonian sing., -s pl.

The surrounding area is made up of farmlands to its east and the south along with the north and west. The forests lie to the northwest, the southwest, the south and to the east along with rolling hills. The urban areastretches from west to east is nearly 3 km and from north to south ranges from 300 m, 600 m to 1 km. Another residential area, adjacent to a major hotel the Nottawasaga Inn is located 5 km east of Alliston is to the east. A river is situated to its east. The CP rail (Toronto - Parry Sound - Sudbury) runs to its west with a small freight yard for Honda vehicles.

Related Topics:
Nottawasaga Inn - CP rail - Parry Sound - Sudbury

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Additional housing and commercial development has been built since in the mid-1990s in the town's southwest. A future urban developments in the northeast and north of Alliston may increase the population to nearly 17,000 to 20,000.

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