The GTA has a surprising number of walkable, urban outposts, most of which you can even get to without a car, if you’re determined enough. Some GTA municipalities even have two or more of these little neighbourhoods, legacies of villages and towns that were later swallowed by larger towns. This particular one I found to be quite charming and unexpected. There are a couple blocks of older houses, then the typical suburban sprawl.
UPDATE: The neighbourhood is Bronte Village, at the far west end of Oakville. The first photograph is looking north on Bronte Road, towards Lakeshore, while the second is at the intersection, towards the southeast corner. Most of you got this right as well. (Perhaps there’ll be a harder one later this week).
Bronte doesn’t look like that much if you just drive along Lakeshore, but go south on Bronte, and you find a lovely little waterfront. While not as busy or as large as Downtown Oakville or Burlington, I found it to be a pleasant surprise.
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That is most definitely Lakeshore and Bronte Rd, in Oakville/Bronte Village.
This looks like the Bronte village along Lakeshore at the west end of Oakville.
Bronte Village, West Oakville
I believe this is the old village of Bronte; specifically the corner of Lakeshore Road and Bronte.
There’s a wonderful coffee shop just east of here that I did a lot of writing. And south of here is some excellent lakefront property.
I quite like Oakville in general. In addition to this mini downtown, downtown Oakville itself is an excellent urban environment.
Looks like Bronte, in west Oakville.
arrgh, ,my mom taught me to never breathe the air north of St. Clair! Brampton main street with the city hall block to the left?
Walkable if you don’t mind driving forever to get to it.
If you’re down there I highly reccomend the “Twisted Fork”, great little restaurant just south of Lakeshore on Bronte.
They do a bunch of street festivals and events in that area all summer, great little spot.
“They do a bunch of street festivals and events in that area all summer, great little spot.”
I was there during last year’s Oakville Car Free Day. I went with a friend, we took the bus from the Oakville GO Station (you don’t need a car!), and the town closed Bronte Road for a street festival that combined with Car Free Day. That’s how I discovered the village’s charm. Before, I’d pass by it on Lakeshore, but didn’t go in.