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Just $365 inclusive for two full years - that's only 50c a day!

If you are the owner of a business, retail store or professional service located in Markham, Ontario, or if you would like to advertise a business, practice or service located around its boundaries or elsewhere in the greater Toronto area, you can do so inexpensively and effectively by securing one or more web pages on this steadily-growing and upscale site.

What Do We Offer You?

• We'll prepare a unique and exclusive web page for your business, service or practice which will form an integral part of this site. We'll take your text (or create it for you, following the draft points that you supply), add an attractive generic custom banner, incorporate photos or images (if desired and provided), and build your attractive web page for you. You can add additional web pages, each linked to your first web page and to each other, for an additional charge if you wish.

• We'll code your page to make it 'search engine attractive' and to help draw Internet visitors directly to it.

• We'll link your page to the front, or index, page of this site under the appropriate category.

• We'll place a complimentary clickable banner, linked to and advertising your page, on the front page of Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com for one month or so, to help drive additional visitor traffic to your page.

• We'll create a link directly to your new web page from the 'links' pages of our seven other sites, the majority of which are themselves high link-count, high-traffic sites. This way, search engines will find and index your web page fast, and visitors to our seven other sites become potential visitors to your page, too!

How Much Does It Cost?

We Give You A Second, Additional Year At No Additional Charge!

What Are The Benefits?

• You receive highly-effective, inexpensive, and attractive advertising exposure for your business, service or practice 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

• Your web page is coded to be also readily found by potential customers as a ‘stand alone' page (acting as your own 'mini-web site')

• You are targeting precisely the community from which you wish to attract future customers and clients.

• You gain additional 'no cost' traffic to your page by being linked to a web site that serves diverse businesses and services in this area - their pages draw traffic to the site for you, just as your page draws additional traffic to the site for them.

• You can 'reach in', via the Internet, to the very many potential future customers and clients now living in, or soon to occupy, the expensive existing and new condominium high-rise developments throughout Toronto and along the Lakeshore - potential high-value repeat customers and upscale clients whom it would be hard for you to advertise to, or to easily contact, in any other way!

• Additionally, you can also draw in new customers from Toronto, Mississauga, Etobicoke and across the GTA, because of the 'search engine friendly' coding of your page to include those areas.

• There's no hassle or additional cost for you - we take care of your web page preparation and hosting, and you get an inexpensive, effective and attractive Internet advertising 'presence' which works night and day to draw business to you for two full years!

• If you alrerady have an existing web site, we'll even include a link from your new web page on Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com to your own web site.

Does it work?

We helped her define her business plan, built her a web page (which you can see at http://www.mimico-by-the- lake.com/prestige.htm) and linked her page to our other high-traffic sites. The result? Type ‘maid services toronto' into Yahoo, and Prestige Plus Maid Service comes right up! Elizabeth's business has boomed, and she now relies solely on her Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com web page to attract additional clients!

You can see similar examples in the attractive and effective Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com pages that we've built for Royal Travel, for All In One Travel and Services, for Fahrenheit Tanning Salon and for Alf's Antiques and Handcrafted Furniture.

For just 50 cents a day over two years, that's exceptional value! Each new and repeat customer or client you gain, plus the referrals that they then send to you, will demonstrate the effectiveness of Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com (and your web page on it) in drawing in additional and continued new business for you - and all for just $365 inclusive for two full years! We individually design, build and host a web page that gets results for you.

Please Note

Order your web page NOW, and you'll be getting a $1230 value (including the additional free year currently being offered) for just $365. That represents an unbeatable and unrepeatable bargain - and an excellent investment in the future success of your business!

To give you an approximate idea for comparison purposes, the minimum regular charge for researching, coding and composing the beautiful Royal Travel, Alf's Antiques and Handcrafted Furniture and Fahrenheit Tanning Salon pages which you can see on this site would be $2,000 - before the additional page set-up charge and annual hosting fee are applied. That charge would cover the substantial number of hours required to research, compose and code these pages for maximum search engine ranking, viewer response and profitable results for the business concerned. So you can see that this soon-to-expire introductory $365 offer is a unbeatable and unrepeatable bargain!

You Can Also Upgrade Your Current Address Listing

• for $75.00 a year, we'll add your telephone number and hours of operation to your address listing.
• for $50.00 a year, we'll add your business's current e-mail address to your address listing, live-linked so that readers can send e-mailed enquiries or orders directly to you.
• for $75.00 a year, we'll add your business's current website address to your address listing, live-linked so that readers can click through directly to it.

If you haven't been given a temporary complimentary business listing by us (this occurs at our complete discretion), but would like to purchase a listing in order to ensure visilibility and added customer or client traffic, you may do so for $250 a year. We will include in that amount any or all of the three additional features listed directly above at no additional charge.

We consider each such request for inclusion on a case-by-case basis, to maintain the balance, integrity and quality of this web site.

Every business which orders a web page on this site also automatically receives a free business listing on the apprpriate business category page, fully-featured as above and live-linked to their web page on this site.

Running A Professional Or Service Business From Home?

We Accept Individual Salesperson And Agent Advertisements, Too.

We're aware that it's vital for such professionals to constantly promote their services, encourage enquiries, generate leads, and build their individual client base.

Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com can help you to inexpensively and effectively reach out to the affluent residents of Mimico-by-the-Lake, Mimico Village, Etobicoke, Lakeshore Boulevard West, Mississauga, North York, Richmond Hill, King City, Thornhill, Markham, Willowdale, Agincourt, Scarborough, and across the GreaterToronto Area.

Advertisers Can Really Benefit!

The affluent and up-scale residents of the new luxury condo buildings and townhouses now being built throghout Toronto think nothing of driving a distance to patronize a newly-discovered favourite store, restaurant, or other business.

Your good service will make them loyal and repeat customers, but it's your advertisement on Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com that will probably be instrumental in telling them about you and in bringing them to your business in the first place!

Etobicoke, Mississauga, and Toronto Businesses Benefit, Too!

Who Do You Contact?

Mimico-by-the-Lake.Com understands the needs of
advertisers in Markham, Ontario.

Advertise on this site - and watch your business grow and prosper!

Markham is bounded by the Town of Richmond Hill and the City of Vaughan to the west, Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville to the north, City of Pickering to the east and City of Toronto to the south

When Upper and Lower Canada were established in 1791, Colonel John Graves Simcoe was appointed the first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. Simcoe named the Township of Markham, north of the Town of York (now Toronto), after his friend William Markham, the Archbishop of York.

Markham Township was originally surveyed in 1793-94, but not until 1801 was the township divided into 10 concession road (now numbered line roads) running north and south, with six sideroads running east/west (now numbered avenues).

In 1794, William Berczy led 75 German families from New York State to Markham Township, an area know as German Mills today. Each family was granted 200 acres (0.8 km²). Because of hardships, many returned to York and Niagara and the area became a ghost town. In 1797, because of the revolution in France in 1789, many nobility fled the country and set off for Canada to take advantage of free land grants in Upper Canada. They were totally unprepared for survival under such crude conditions and most of them returned to their homeland.

From 1803 to 1812, the largest group of settlers were Pennsylvania Germans, most of whom were Mennonites. These highly skilled craftsmen and knowledgeable farmers had the best chance for survival because they had already survived harsh conditions in Pennsylvania. From 1830 on, many Irish, Scottish and English emigrated to Upper Canada to escape the famine and overpopulation of their homeland.

Markham's early years blended the rigours of homesteading with the development of agriculture-based industries. The many rivers and streams in the Township soon supported water-powered saw and grist mills and, later, woollen mills. With improved transportation routes, such as Yonge Street and the growing population, urbanization increased. By 1857 most of the Township had been cleared of timber and was under cultivation. Villages like Thornhill, Unionville and Markham greatly expanded and new, specialized industries such as wagon works, tanneries, farm implement and furniture factories sprang up.

In 1871, the Toronto and Nipissing Railway Company, with stations in Unionville and Markham, officially opened its line from Scarborough to Uxbridge. Initially, the railway brought renewed prosperity and rapid development. Farmers and millers had a more convenient means of transporting their products to Toronto. Other merchants had easier access to supplies and business boomed.

The first form of structured municipal government occurred in 1850 when the Township of Markham was created. On November 20, 1872, the Warden of York County signed the By-law of Incorporation, which provided for the election of a Council for the Village of Markham. The Village of Markham grew to a population of 1100 by 1891.

The increased communication with Toronto brought on by the railway and further enhanced by the development of the telegraph, the telephone and the automobile, ultimately led to the demise of the villages in the Township after the turn of the century. Local industries were simply unable to compete with the larger manufacturers and suppliers of Toronto, and Markham soon reverted to a quiet, rural community.

From 1945 onward, the face of Markham began to change rapidly. It was no longer a community whose inhabitants worked mainly within the area. It evolved into a fast-growing suburb, where the majority of its residents commuted into Toronto. As a result, rural Markham disappeared in the face of tremendous urban growth.

By 1969, the Township of Markham consisted of several villages, including Markham, Unionville, and parts of Thornhill. In 1971, the Regional Municipality of York was established by the Government of Ontario. Northern portions of Markham Township were annexed to the municipalities of Richmond Hill and Whitchurch-Stouffville, while the balance of Markham Township was incorporated in the Town of Markham and the present town boundaries set.

In 1976, Markham's population was approximately 56,000. Since that time, the population has more than tripled. Explosive growth in new sub-divisions has lead to a jump in population since the 1980s. Much of Markham's farm land has disappeared, now found well north of 16th Avenue. Concerns from environmentalist and concerns with the future of the Oak Ridge's Moraine will impact the extent of growth of the northern portion of Markham.

At present, Markham comprises seven distinct communities: Markham Village, Cornell, Unionville, Wismer Common, Stouffville, Milliken and Thornhill. Since the 1980s the town has been recognized as a suburb of Toronto, though it has an independent economy. Many high-tech industries have located in Markham for the relative abundance of land, low tax rates and good transportation routes. ATI Technologies, IBM Canada, Apple Computer Canada, Motorola Canada and many other well-known companies have chosen Markham as their home in Canada. Hence, the town has been branding itself as Canada's "High-Tech Capital".

Until the 1970s, Markham was mostly farmland and marsh, which is still reflected in events like the Markham Fair. Markham boasts a very diverse, multicultural population, with large Chinese and South Asian communities.

Events taking place annually include Markham Youth Festival, Unionville Village Festival, Markham Village Music Festival, Markham Jazz Festival, Milliken Mills Children's Festival, Thornhill Village Festival, Markham Fair, Markham Festival of Lights, Markham Santa Claus Parade, Olde Tyme Christmas Unionville.

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