Oakville, Ontario

Oakville is a town and the seat of Halton Region in Ontario, Canada, bordering Burlington, Milton and Mississauga on the western shore of Lake Ontario in the Greater Toronto Area. At the 2021 Canadian census it had 213,759 residents, and it is the largest town in Ontario. Dundas Street was surveyed there as a military road in 1793, and British immigrants settled the area from 1807. The Crown bought the land from the Mississaugas in the early nineteenth century, and the lands around the creek mouths were auctioned to William Chisholm in 1827, who left their development to his son Robert Kerr Chisholm and his brother-in-law Merrick Thomas. Chisholm also ran a shipbuilding business on Sixteen Mile Creek. Like much of southern Ontario, Oakville has a humid continental climate, with cold snowy winters and warm summers.