How Markham handles a real snow season.
Markham sits in the GTA snow-belt fringe — 15-20 cm storms that drop nothing in Toronto are routine here, just 25 km north. Markham's 338,503 residents, 130 cm of annual snowfall, winters averaging -4°C make this a city where sustained December-through-February snowfall stacks faster than ploughs can clear.
Our Markham depot dispatches plows, salters, and roof crews across the metro and adjacent municipalities. Cul-de-sacs and curvilinear streets shape every routing decision, and routes are built around that. Routes are built around Markham's distinct districts — Unionville, Cornell, Cathedraltown, and Berczy — each with its own driveway density, road-width profile, and salt sensitivity from boulevard trees. Major sites including IBM Canada, AMD, and Markham Stouffville Hospital rely on contracted snow programs that meet Ontario insurance and accessibility standards.
Markham operates under the Ontario Occupiers’ Liability Act and the city’s 12-hour sidewalk-clearing bylaw from end-of-storm; contracted operators are documentation-liable for the cleared interval. Every visit is GPS-tracked, insured to $5M general liability, and photo-stamped before invoice.
Markham runs as a Tier-A snow.ca depot — 24/7 storm-season dispatch with bilingual operations support, dedicated commercial routes for hospital, retail, and government accounts, automated $10M coverage upgrades for buildings above 200,000 sq ft, and on-site brine production for pre-storm anti-icing. Class A reference accounts in Markham include the operations centres of IBM Canada, AMD, and Markham Stouffville Hospital. Equipment density supports continuous monitoring during named storms.