Holland Landing is a village in the town of East Gwillimbury. Its major road is Yonge Street (bypassed by the former Highway 11) and the village has bus service by GO Transit route 68 and York Region Transit route 52 (Monday to Saturday service). The East Gwillimbury GO train station is in the southeast corner of Holland Landing, providing weekday commuter train service. The East Holland River runs through the village and has several marinas for recreational boats. Most of Holland Landing's internal economy is based on the service industry, and some manufacturing. Holland Landing was the northernmost point on the original alignment of Yonge Street.

Holland Landing

Mount Albert is an exurban community located within the Town of East Gwillimbury and is part of York Region. Housing developments are slowly continuing in the north east and south west quadrants. The downtown area is centred at Centre Street and Main Street. The town itself is bordered on the west by Highway 48, which connects Markham and Beaverton and on the east by Durham Regional Road 31, which serves as a townline between East Gwillimbury and Uxbridge. The Mount Albert Creek passes through Mount Albert. The outlying area is forested mainly by private woodlots and some regionally owned and maintained pine forests while farmlands are found throughout the area.

Mt Albert

Queensville is a village within the Town of East Gwillimbury. Among the private homes, the village proper contains the Queensville Cemetery, a post office, a United Church of Canada, and a complex containing a fire hall, a community centre, and a public park. At one time, there were plans to build Ontario's first private university in Queensville.

Queensville

Rural East Gwillimbury consists primarily of farmland.

Rural East Gwillimbury

Sharon is a former village now incorporated into the municipality of the Town of East Gwillimbury. The municipal offices of the town are in Sharon. The community's most historic building is the Sharon Temple, once the meeting house of the Children of Peace (or Davidites). It is part of the musical, political, religious and architectural heritage of Ontario and is now a museum and National Historic Site of Canada. In the mid to late 1980s, housing developments were built in the area around Sharon. Further developments have continued slowly around Sharon since 2002.

Sharon