Bronte Creek

Bronte Creek is a waterway in the Lake Ontario watershed of Ontario Canada. It runs through Hamilton and Halton Region, with its source near Morriston^[2] (south of the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 401), passing Bronte Creek Provincial Park, on its way to Lake Ontario at Bronte Harbour in Oakville, where the creek is also known as Twelve Mile Creek. Bronte takes its name from the title of the Duke of Bronté held by Horatio Nelson.^[3]

Bronte Creek
The Bronte Creek bridge in 1936, built as part of The Middle Road, now known as the Queen Elizabeth Way. The original iron truss bridge from the country lane is in the foreground.
Location of the mouth of Bronte Creek in southern Ontario
Native name	Eshkwesing-ziibi (Eastern Ojibwa)
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Region	Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area
County, City, Regional Municipality	Wellington, Hamilton, Halton
Municipalities	Puslinch, Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville
Physical characteristics
Source	wetland
• location	Puslinch
• coordinates	43°26′29″N 80°07′36″W
• elevation	330 m (1,080 ft)
Mouth	Lake Ontario
• location	Oakville
• coordinates	43°23′34″N 79°42′23″W
• elevation	74 m (243 ft)
Basin size	315 km2 (122 sq mi)[1]
Basin features
River system	Great Lakes Basin
Tributaries
• left	Mountsberg Creek, Flamboro Creek, Kilbride Creek, Limestone Creek, Indian Creek[1]
• right	Strabane Creek, Willoughby Creek, Lowville Creek, Mount Nemo Creek[1]

Bronte Creek in Ojibwe is "Eshkwesing-ziibi",^[4] "Esqui-sink", "Eshkwessing", "ishkwessin", and "Asquasing" ("that which lies at the end").^[5][6][7][8]

History

A village site associated with the Neutral people and located on the east bank of the creek, the Hood site, was excavated in 1977.^[9]: 47

Geology

Just south of the Queen Elizabeth Way at the Bronte Road exit, the creek has exposed an outcrop of Queenston Formation red shale with narrow, greenish layers of calcareous sandstone and silty bioclastic carbonate.^[10]

See also

• List of rivers of Ontario