Christmas Lighting in Richmond Hill, Ontario

About Richmond Hill

The homes and weather we work in

Richmond Hill stretches roughly fourteen kilometres north to south and about seven across, most of it hung off Yonge Street the way it has been since the village was incorporated back in 1873. The place earned its city status only in 2019, though people have been building along this ridge for a century and a half. The 2021 census put the city past 202,000 people, and the housing reads like a timeline. Heritage homes ring Mill Pond, where the water once turned a sawmill in the 1800s. Bayview Hill went up as large-lot subdivisions in the early 1990s. Jefferson only started filling in around 2007. Different eras, different glass, different rooflines, and each one asks for a slightly different hand. That is the part most people never think about until the crew is already on the property, reading the house before a drop of water touches it.

Richmond Hill is the rare Canadian municipality that writes light-pollution rules into its bylaws, all to protect the David Dunlap Observatory and its 74-inch reflecting telescope up in the Hillsview area, built in 1935 and still the largest of its kind in the country. People here notice clarity. They notice it in a night sky and they notice it in a front window. We clean with purified water, which carries no minerals, so glass dries without the spots and film that tap water leaves behind. On the two-storey builds around Bayview Hill and the Observatory streets, that means upper panes you can actually see through, not a wet pass and a squeegee mark left to dry in the sun.

See all three services across Richmond Hill on the Richmond Hill services hub.