Bethesda is a hamlet in York Region, Ontario, Canada, in the town of Whitchurch-Stouffville.

The hamlet is centred at the intersection of Warden Avenue and Bethesda Road in the south-eastern region of Whitchurch-Stouffville; it flourished around 1875.

[1] Mennonites settled in the area starting with Christian Steckley, who came from Pennsylvania in 1795.

[2] The community gained distinction with the formation of a private telephone company, the Bethesda and Stouffville Telephone Association in 1904, with 1188 users from Newmarket to Markham by 1930.

[3] This Ontario geographical article about a location in the Golden Horseshoe is a stub.