City of Orillia MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2015 Economic Development Office Orillia City Centre 50 Andrew Street South Orillia, Ontario L3V 7T5 Telephone: 705.325.4900 Fax: 705.329.2670 Dan Landry Manager of Economic Development Laura Thompson Economic Development Officer Julia Crowder Administrative Assistant businessinorillia.ca
[email protected] twitter@OrilliaEDO Join us on Facebook at City of Orillia Economic Development Office Location The City of Orillia is located in Central Ontario, on the shores of Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching and just an hour north of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Two major highway corridors provide access to the north, south, east and west. Highway 400/Highway 11 runs north/south from Toronto, through Orillia and then north towards North Bay and beyond. Highway 12 runs east/west from Oshawa and the GTA to the shores of Georgian Bay. Orillia is approximately 200 kilometres (140 miles) from the Canada/U.S. border, and located within 10 hours’ drive from major Canadian and U.S. markets along the Great Lakes and into Quebec. (Refer to Page 15 for distances from Orillia to U.S. and Canadian cities.) Orillia is also a port-of-call on the Trent-Severn Waterway System, a 240-mile recreational waterway link between Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay. AGRICULTURE Orillia is surrounded by productive farmland. The soil capability in the area has been primarily identified as Class 2 by the Government of Canada. The deep soils have good water-holding capacity, can be managed with little difficulty and are moderately high to high in productivity for a fairly wide range of crops.