What is "thornhill"

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Thornhill is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997.

It covers the community of Thornhill, which is made up of portions of Vaughan and Markham, and was created in 1996 from parts of Markham—Whitchurch—Stouffville and York North ridings.

It consists of the part of the city of Vaughan that is east of Highway 400 and south of Rutherford Road, and the part of the city of Markham west of Bayview Avenue.

It is one of only two ridings in Canada with a Jewish plurality (the other being Mount Royal in Quebec). 32.8% of the population is Jewish, the highest in Canada. Thornhill also has the highest percentage of Russians (12.9%) of all Canadian ridings (implying the presence of a strong community of Russian Jews).

The Thornhill riding has the highest percentage of population with an educational attainment of "University certificate or diploma above bachelor level" (i.e. above-bachelor-level certificate or diploma other than doctorate, master, or medicine etc. degrees) with 5.0%.

The riding lost all of its territory east of Bayview Avenue to Markham-Thornhill, and gained a small fraction from York Centre in the 2012 redistribution.

Thornhill is a historic plantation near Forkland, Alabama. The Greek Revival main house was built in 1833 by James Innes Thornton. The house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 10, 1984.

Thornhill is a provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1999.

It covers the community of Thornhill, Ontario, which is made up of portions of Vaughan and Markham, and was created in 1999 from parts of Markham and York Centre ridings.

It consists of the part of the city of Vaughan that is east of Highway 400 and south of Rutherford Road, and the part of the city of Markham west of Highway 404.

It is the only riding in Ontario with a Jewish plurality. 32.8% of the population is Jewish, the highest in the province.

Thornhill is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alan Thornhill, British sculptor
• Batt Thornhill, Irish sportsperson
• Claude Thornhill, American pianist, arranger and bandleader
• Dorothy Thornhill, Mayor of Watford
• Frederick Thornhill, English cricketer
• James Thornhill, English painter
• Leeroy Thornhill, British electronic music artist
• Leonard W. Thornhill, American World War II Naval officer and pilot
• Matt Thornhill, English footballer
• Michael Thornhill, Australian film producer, screenwriter, and director
• Pauline Thornhill, host and producer of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s longest running regional television program, Land and Sea
• Siri Thornhill, Norwegian soprano
• Tom Thornhill, Louisiana lawyer and politician
• William Pole Thornhill, English politician and landowner
• Josh Thornhill, American singer/songwriter and guitarist

Fictitious

• Roger O. Thornhill, Character played by Cary Grant in North by Northwest
• Ernest Thornhill, alias of The Machine in Person of Interest (TV series)

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Thornhill was the 1999 fourth and final studio album by Canadian artists Moxy Früvous.

Thornhill, also known as the Hade-Lewis House, is a plantation in Talladega County, Alabama, built beginning in 1835 by planter John Hardie. The property includes the Classical Revival house, a chapel, the servants' quarters, the plantation office, a barn, a horse racetrack and the family cemetery, along with the approach road. The main house is an I-house in plan, one room deep in front, two stories, with a rear ell. The facade is five bays wide and fronted by a central portico. The interior has a central hall plan, flanked by a parlor, a dining room and a library in the ell. A kitchen occupies the farther reaches of the ell.

Thornhill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 20, 1998.