West Highland Creek

West Highland Creek is a river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is a tributary of Highland Creek in the Lake Ontario drainage basin. The creek and its tributaries are entirely within the old City of Scarborough, and provide the watershed for the northwest of the city.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Agincourt GO Station and Knox Presbyterian Church.

Agincourt GO Station

Railway station

Photo: PascalHD, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Agincourt GO Station is a GO Transit railway station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Stouffville line station serves the Agincourt neighbourhood of the former suburb of Scarborough.

Knox Presbyterian Church

Church

Photo: SimonP, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Knox Presbyterian Church is located at 4156 Sheppard Avenue East in the Agincourt neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was formed by former members of the "Historic" Knox Presbyterian Church after that Presbyterian congregation voted 136-106 in 1925 to join the United Church of Canada.

Knox United Church

Church

Photo: GTD Aquitaine, Public domain.

The Knox United Church, began as Knox Presbyterian Church in Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in a wood-frame church built in 1848, the result of the Church of Scotland disruption, that led to the formation of the Presbyterian Church of Canada in Connection with the Free Church of Scotland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Agincourt and Scarborough.

Agincourt

Neighborhood

Photo: GTD Aquitaine, Public domain.

Agincourt is a neighbourhood and former village in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Agincourt is located in northeast Toronto, along Sheppard Avenue between Kennedy and Markham Roads.

Scarborough

Photo: James, CC BY 2.0.

Scarborough is the easternmost of the six former municipalities which formed Metro Toronto. It includes all of the City of Toronto east of Victoria Park Avenue, including the city's zoo and a stretch of Lake Ontario and Rouge River shoreline.

L’Amoreaux

Neighborhood

Photo: Talhamujahid, CC BY-SA 3.0.

L'Amoreaux is a neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated east of Victoria Park Avenue, south of McNicoll Avenue, west of Kennedy Road and north of Huntingwood Drive.

West Highland Creek

Type: River
Description: stream in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Categories: stream and body of water
Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude

43.781° or 43° 46′ 52″ north

Longitude

-79.28145° or 79° 16′ 53″ west

Elevation

145 metres (476 feet)

Open location code

87M2QPJ9+9C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 160524848

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=water

OpenStreetMap feature

water=river

GeoNames ID

6178997

Wikidata ID

Q7985370

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“West Highland Creek” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “West Highland Creek”
Chinese: “西高地溪”
Dutch: “West Highland Creek”
Dutch: “West Highland Stroom”
French: “ruisseau Highland ouest”
French: “Ruisseau Highland ouest”
French: “West Highland Creek”
German: “West Highland Bach”
German: “West Highland Creek”
Italian: “ruscello Highland ovest”
Italian: “West Highland Creek”
Persian: “نهر وست هایلند”
Swedish: “West Highland Creek”
“West Highland Creek”

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