Vaughan

Vaughan is five communities in one city. Kleinburg sits between two branches of the Humber River, a 19th-century village with the McMichael Canadian Art Collection anchoring its southern edge. The gallery holds the Group of Seven collection in a log home on 16 hectares of protected land. Woodbridge carries the Italian heritage that arrived in the postwar decades and shaped everything from the architecture to the restaurants. Maple has Canada's Wonderland and the Kortright Centre for Conservation on either side of Highway 400. Concord and the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre represent the newest layer. The TTC subway now runs directly to VMC at Jane and Highway 7. Towers are going up fast around that station.

The Italian community in Woodbridge and East Woodbridge has maintained one of the strongest owner-occupancy rates in the GTA. Families buy and stay. The Mackenzie Health hospital in Maple is one of the largest in Ontario, anchoring the northwest end of the city. An estate in Kleinburg and a condo near VMC are both Vaughan, but they are different decisions entirely. For investors, the VMC corridor is the most active development pocket north of Toronto's city limits. For families, Woodbridge and Kleinburg offer the kind of neighbourhood continuity that is increasingly rare.