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104-516: The Peel Avengers were founded in the summer of 2011 in Brampton, Ontario . The Avengers played their first game ever on January 7, 2012 in Hagersville, Ontario . The Avengers defeated Durham TurfDogs 16-9 to pick up their first win in franchise history. The Avengers would finish the 2012 campaign with a 5-9 record landing them in last place with only 10 pts. The Avengers did not qualify for

208-578: A pathway, and changes name to Centreville Creek Road after it leaves the city and enters Caledon. It was originally the 9th Concession and ran south through the present conservation area (where the historic bowstring bridge that carried it across the west branch of the Humber River remains in use for a trail), and continued south via Gorewood Drive to Steeles Avenue and beyond along the present course of Finch Avenue. The Gore Road spurs northwest off Highway 50 between Steeles Avenue and Queen Street and

312-627: A shopping centre . The downtown's centrepiece was the Civic Centre, built in 1972 to include the city hall and library. Directly across Team Canada Drive, a shopping centre, Bramalea City Centre was built. These developments were connected by a long tunnel, planned to provide protection from winter weather. The tunnel has long since been closed due to safety issues. In 1974, the Ontario provincial government decided to update Peel County 's structure. It amalgamated several towns and villages into

416-568: A 3.25-acre (1.32 ha) portion of the gardens and lawns of the Alder Lea estate (now called Alderlea) that had been built on Main Street by Kenneth Chisolm in 1867 to 1870. (Chisholm, a merchant and founding father of Brampton, had been the Town reeve, then warden of Peel County, then MPP for Brampton and eventually, Registrar of Peel County.) Gage donated 1.7 acres (0.69 ha) of the property to

520-413: A Second Language (ESL) classes at high schools. Originally taught by volunteers, the classes eventually were scheduled as daytime courses taught by paid instructors. In the 1980s, the public and Catholic board expanded its language programs, offering night classes in 23 languages. These were introduced due to requests by parents, who wanted their children to learn their ancestral languages and heritage. In

624-600: A continuation of Fifth Sideroad in Halton Hills , and ends at the Credit River at Mississauga Road in the historic community of Huttonville. It, as well as most of Queen Street and Ebenezer Road in the extreme east of the city, which continues its concession road baseline , were also part of the Fifth Sideroad. Queen Street runs from Mississauga Road east to Peel Regional Road 50 (former Highway 50) and

728-668: A diagonal local collector road. Fifth Line originally ran south to the Queen Elizabeth Way in Mississauga; but was reconstructed through it as Erin Mills Parkway to veer east and channel into Mississauga Road south of Highway 401, which resulted in the Brampton section being severed from the Mississauga section. Later, the Brampton section was linked with an extension of Meadowvale Boulevard Mississauga Road

832-606: A few exceptions, mainly in the east end, where three either spur off (or formerly did) from Peel Road 50 (formerly Highway 50 ) which runs slightly offset from the grid and forms the eastern boundary of the city, or are truncated at the Claireville Conservation Area . East–west roads (with the sole exception of Mayfield Road) are designated with "East" and "West" segments on either side of Main and Hurontario Streets. The designation of north–south roads into North and South segments by Queen Street (resulting in

936-488: A former local MPP and the 15th Premier of Ontario , and is designated as Peel Road 16 between Steeles Avenue and Bovaird Drive (with the portions to the north and south being maintained by the city), with the Regionally-maintained section mostly corresponding with the street's busiest and most commercialized stretch. The CAA Centre arena is located on Kennedy near the southern city limit by Highway 407, as

1040-741: A game, the Ironmen defeated the league champion Lock Monsters by a score of 16-15. Deemed one of the most exciting games in league history, the Ironmen would go on to become the second league champion and claim the honour of hoisting the coveted Creator's Cup. On April 4, 2014, the Lock Monsters defeated the Ohsweken Demons 10-9 in overtime to win their first Creator's Cup. Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against Brampton, Ontario Brampton

1144-598: A grant from the Carnegie Foundation, set up by United States steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie , to build a new, expanded library; it serves several purposes, featuring the Brampton Library . The Carnegie libraries were built on the basis of communities coming up with matching funds and guaranteeing maintenance. In 1902, Sir William J. Gage (owner of Gage Publishing, a publishing house specializing in school textbooks) purchased

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1248-468: A localized quadrant system), is more complicated, with the unusual situation in which only the portions of those between McLaughlin Road and Highway 410 are designated as such. To complicate matters further, even for the roads which are divided, the designation only applies between Steeles Avenue and Bovaird Drive: For example, Kennedy Road South only extends to Steeles with its address numbers resetting from

1352-487: A major arterial as it continues James Potter northward. The first kilometre (0.6 mile) of this section is a realignment of the original road, which is today known as Salvation Road. The main arterial sections of Creditview in both Brampton and Mississauga are linked via James Potter Road (on the east side of the Credit River), and Financial Drive (on the west side of it) by following Steeles Avenue. James Potter Road

1456-435: A neighbouring town which is now part of the city of Mississauga ), and "LEA", an Old English word meaning meadow or grassland. He sold the land to Brampton Leasing (the former name of the developer) and built one of Bramalea's first houses on Dixie Road. The community was developed according to its detailed master plan , which included provisions for a parkland trail system and a "downtown" to include essential services and

1560-530: A new civic centre in Bramalea. Two years later, when Brampton and Chinguacousy merged, the new city's council was moved from its modest downtown Brampton locale to the Bramalea building. The library systems of Brampton and Chinguacousy were merged, resulting in a system of four locations. Some have questioned the future of Peel Region as encompassing all of Brampton, Mississauga, and Caledon. The Mississauga council, led by Mayor Hazel McCallion , voted to become

1664-461: A particular religion . Brampton has Canada's largest Sikh population and third largest Sikh proportion (behind Surrey and Abbotsford ); the city also has Canada's second-largest Hindu population (behind Toronto) and largest Hindu proportion. The Toronto Ontario Temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) is located in Brampton. The 2021 census found that English

1768-573: A similarly short distance, making it the shortest regional road in terms of being applied the entirety of a road within Peel. However, just north of the 427, it curves eastwards to cross into Toronto, where it continues as one of that city's major east–west streets and eventually reaches Pickering . McVean Drive runs north from Queen Street, opposite the north entrance to the Claireville Conservation Area, through which it runs as

1872-464: A single-tier municipality and asked the provincial government to be separated from Peel Region. They argued the city has outgrown the need for a regional layer of government, and that Mississauga is being held back by supporting Brampton and Caledon with its municipal taxes. In the early 1980s, Cineplex Odeon closed the Capitol Theatre in Brampton. The City bought the facility in 1981 under

1976-450: A southward increase beginning at Queen, to numbers descending (from about 7999) to follow the numbering sequence starting in Mississauga after the street crosses Steeles, and becomes simply Kennedy Road Likewise Kennedy Road North only runs to Bovaird, with the northward numbers jumping into the 10,000s (with the 8000 and 9000 blocks being replaced by the north–south numbering system) as the street again reverts to just being Kennedy Road This

2080-430: A strong sense of local identities. Bramptonians feared urban sprawl would dissolve their town's personality. Bramalea residents took pride in the built-from-scratch and organised structure that had come with their new satellite city and did not want to give it up. Others in Bramalea accept they are part of Brampton, and they make up a "tri-city" area: the original Brampton, Heart Lake, Bramalea. In 1972, Chinguacousy built

2184-510: A stub west of McVean Drive just north of Queen Street and ends at Highway 50. It continues the straight course of Queen after the street curves to tie into York Road 7 (Highway 7), and was the original route of the former highway (and was also part of the afformentioned earlier Fifth Sideroad) when it jogged at Highway 50. A Sikh temple, the Gurdwara Dasmesh Darbar Ontario Sikh Temple, is located on

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2288-487: A town landmark, until Brampton Town Council allowed it to be torn down in 1977. At its height, the company had 140 greenhouses, and was the largest cut flower business in North America, producing 20 million blooms and introducing numerous rose and orchid varietals and species to the market. It also spurred the development of other nurseries in the town. Forty-eight hothouse flower nurseries once did business in

2392-531: Is Brampton's main east–west street with the city's downtown being located at its intersection with Main Street. The street was designated as Highway 7 until 1997 from Highway 410 (which Highway 7 ran concurrently with between Queen and Bovaird Drive, which it followed west of the 410) easterly. Prior to the numbering of the 410 in 1982, it carried the Highway 7 designation as far west as Main Street (where it ran concurrent with Highway 10 ) north to Bovaird. After

2496-863: Is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario , and the regional seat of the Regional Municipality of Peel . It is part of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is a lower-tier municipality within the Peel Region. The city has a population of 656,480 as of the 2021 Census , making it the ninth most populous municipality in Canada and the third most populous city in the Greater Golden Horseshoe urban area, behind Toronto and Mississauga . The City of Brampton

2600-409: Is a legacy of the city's original numbering plan prior to it being enlarged after being amalgamated with the surrounding townships in 1974. An anomaly in the numbering system outside the north–south numbering area is Bramalea Road, which also has numbers ascending from Mississauga south of Steeles, but resetting to "1" north of it to Queen Street, where the numbers return to the standard sequence in

2704-461: Is a modern-built arterial bypass of Creditview Road between Steeles Avenue and Bovaird Drive, and is located entirely east of the Credit River and is a sinuous street that closely parallels a hydro corridor, crossing it several times. North of its terminus at Bovaird, it continues as the northernmost arterial section of Creditview Mavis Road is a short road within Brampton, only running between

2808-416: Is accessed by Heart Lake Road Originally, it continued south to Steeles and beyond into Mississauga, but the section in that city was renamed Tomken Road after being severed from the Brampton section, with a new extension (see below) being constructed to the east to connect to Steeles. This left a fourth bypassed section of Heart Lake, which was renamed Westcreek Boulevard. Tomken Road, like Kennedy Road,

2912-524: Is available at Brampton City Hall and online at no cost. Planned as an innovative " new town ", Bramalea was developed in the 1960s immediately east of the Town of Brampton in Chinguacousy Township. It was Canada's first satellite community developed by one of the country's largest real estate developers, Bramalea Limited. The name "Bramalea" was created by the farmer William Sheard, who combined "BRAM" from Brampton, "MAL" from Malton (then

3016-505: Is bordered by Vaughan to the east, Halton Hills to the west, Caledon to the north, Mississauga to the south, and Etobicoke (Toronto) to the southeast. Named after the town of Brampton in Cumberland , England, Brampton was incorporated as a village in 1853 and as a town in 1873, and became a city in 1974. The modern City of Brampton was formed following an amalgamation of several surrounding townships and communities. The city

3120-400: Is bordered by Highway 50 ( Vaughan ) to the east, Winston Churchill Boulevard ( Halton Hills ) to the west, Mayfield Road ( Caledon ) to the north (except for a small neighbourhood, Snelgrove , which is part of Brampton despite extending somewhat north of Mayfield Road), the hydro corridor ( Mississauga ) to the south as far east as Torbram Road, where the border between the two cities follows

3224-598: Is currently under construction and is expected to open in the fall of 2024. Main Street is Brampton's primary historic north south street, and originally bore the Hurontario Street name, but was changed after the city's founding. The corner of Main and Queen Streets is the location of the city's historic downtown. Attractions along Main include Gage Park and the Rose Theatre . Along with being designated as Highway 10 along its full length, and as mentioned in

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3328-537: Is designated as Peel Road 1 and is named after the Mississauga First Nation , as is the adjacent City of Mississauga. It is typically much busier and wider in Brampton (where it is mostly four or six lanes) than most of Mississauga due to the aforementioned Erin Mills Parkway acting as a bypass of it through most of the latter city, where it is mostly only two lanes wide. In Brampton, it is six lanes wide from Highway 407 to south of Queen Street through

3432-498: Is designated as Peel Road 19 and marks the western limits of Brampton (and Peel Region), entering the city near Highway 401 . It diverts to the west to run entirely within Halton Hills in the vicinity of Highway 7. Nearly all the areas the road passes though are still rural except for the short section south of Steeles Avenue Heritage Road was formerly Fifth Line West, and is a continuation of Mississauga's Meadowvale Boulevard,

3536-489: Is designated as Peel Road 7. It is a very long and busy road beginning at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, passing through Brampton, and extending north beyond Peel Region to the boundary of Dufferin and Simcoe counties, where it ends (officially) south of Stayner ; a distance of 80 km (50 mi). Before the 1974 amalgamation, it was the boundary between Chinguacousy and Toronto Gore Townships. Humberwest Parkway runs from Queen Street, opposite

3640-513: Is designated as Peel Road 8. It passes through the Ebenezer (originally a rural hamlet) and Claireville neighbourhoods. Like Goreway Drive, it is named after Toronto Gore Township. Clarkway Drive runs north of Cottrelle Blvd opposite Via Romano Way and the area it passes through is still rural north of Castlemore Road. The southernmost section has been realigned through the Ebenezer area, but

3744-476: Is from Georgetown , located 10.93 km (6.79 mi) south southwest. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Brampton had a population of 656,480 living in 182,472 of its 189,086 total private dwellings, a change of 10.6% from its 2016 population of 593,638 . With a land area of 265.89 km (102.66 sq mi), it had a population density of 2,469.0/km (6,394.7/sq mi) in 2021. At its growth rate of 10.6% since

3848-399: Is named for Thomas Laird Kennedy, with "Tomken" as a portmanteau of Thomas and Kennedy . It is a short arterial within Brampton and continues from Mississauga and ends at Steeles Avenue, where it continues as West Drive. As mentioned above, it is a renaming and bypass of the largely-displaced Heart Lake Road in the south end of the city after Heart Lake was severed. The southernmost stretch

3952-514: Is subsumed today by the newer Humberwest Parkway, and a right turn is needed to continue northbound. It is named after the former Toronto Gore Township, which is itself named either after Francis Gore , Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada , or the triangular survey, called a gore , which gave the township its shape. Finch Avenue is designated Peel Regional Road 2, and runs for only 1 km. (0.6 mi.) south from Steeles Avenue before continuing into Mississauga where it ends at Highway 427 after

4056-427: Is the back end of the storage and maintenance facility for the under-construction Hurontario LRT. Before 1990s, Kennedy served a role as an alternative route to Highway 7 through downtown Brampton and had a wide curve defaulting northbound traffic onto westbound Bovaird Drive Heart Lake Road is today a broken road that has been mostly displaced by Highway 410. It is named after Heart Lake and runs in three sections:

4160-490: Is the easternmost road in Brampton. It marks the eastern boundary of both the city and the region, with Vaughan, and York Region, located on the eastern side. Despite its name, it is no longer a provincial highway and is now officially maintained by the Region as Peel Regional Road 50. The former highway continued south along Albion Road as far as Highway 27 , and ended at Highway 89 west of Alliston . Ebenezer Road begins as

4264-415: Is the easternmost street in the city to continue south through Mississauga all the way to Lake Ontario due to Peel's eastern boundary narrowing from north to south. Bramalea Road is named after the city's Bramalea district; Bramalea is a portmanteau of Brampton , Malton ( Malton being a village that is part of Mississauga today), and lea (an old English word meaning meadow or grassland) created by

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4368-423: Is very ethnically diverse with approximately 60% of Brampton's residents being foreign-born . Religion in Brampton (2021) In 2021, the most reported religion among the population was Christianity (35.7%), with Catholicism (17.3%) making up the largest denomination. This was followed by Sikhism (25.1%), Hinduism (18.1%), Islam (9.1%), and Buddhism (1.1%). 10.3% of the population did not identify with

4472-851: The CN Halton Subdivision , and Etobicoke ( Toronto ) to the southeast from the intersection of Steeles Ave E and Albion Road, to where Indian Line meets the West Humber Trail at the Trail's western starting point situated just south of the Claireville Reservoir. Brampton features a continental climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfa ) which is typical of the rest of the Greater Toronto Area. Data from Toronto Pearson International Airport , located 10.55 km (6.56 mi) east. Data

4576-536: The Regional Municipality of Peel . Brampton retained its role as the administrative centre of Peel Region, which it already had as county seat . The regional council chamber, the Peel Regional Police force, the public health department, and the region's only major museum, the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives , are all located in Brampton. This change had its critics among those with

4680-512: The 2016 census, Brampton was the fastest-growing of Canada's largest 25 municipalities. In the 2021 Canadian census, people of South Asian origin were the largest ethnocultural group in Brampton - accounting for 52.4% of the population. Other groups included those of European (18.9%), Black (13.1%), Filipino (3.2%), Latin American (2.1%), Southeast Asian (1.4%), Chinese (1.1%), West Asian (1.1%), and Arab (1%) ancestry. The city

4784-639: The 24 Main Street South location is the longest-operating retail business in what is now Brampton. In 1974, the two townships of Chinguacousy and Toronto Gore were incorporated into Brampton. The small pine added to the centre of the shield on the Brampton city flag represents Chinguacousy, honouring the Chippewa chief Shinguacose, "The Small Pine." After this merger, outlying communities such as Bramalea , Heart Lake and Professor's Lake , Snelgrove , Tullamore , and Marysfield , were incorporated into

4888-520: The 9000s. Steeles Avenue is the southernmost arterial in Brampton and runs across the entire city, and is designated as Peel Road 15. It begins in Milton in the west and continues to Vaughan and Toronto in the east, where it forms the boundary of Toronto and York Region . Historically, it was also the southern boundary of the Town of Brampton and the Townships of Chinguacousy and Toronto Gore, and

4992-932: The CanadaArm 3. Loblaw Companies Ltd. , Chrysler Canada Brampton Assembly Plant , Gamma-Dynacare Medical Laboratories , Mandarin Restaurant , Brita , and Clorox . Other major companies operating in Brampton include CN Rail Brampton Intermodal Terminal, Best Buy , Amazon which has four production facilities in the city, Ford , Nestlé , Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), Frito Lay Canada , and Coca-Cola . Additional companies in Brampton include Canon , Canadian Tire which has three distribution facilities, Canadian Blood Services , Boston Scientific , Air Canada , Sleep Country Canada head office, Rogers Communications , Magna International . Alstom has an assembly plant in Brampton to fulfil their contract with Metrolinx to build Alstom Citadis Spirit LRV cars for

5096-727: The City, and in some instances further developed. In 1963, the town established The Flower Festival of Brampton , based on the Rose Festival of Portland , Oregon , in the United States. It began to market itself as the Flower Town of Canada . In a revival of this theme, on June 24, 2002, the City Council established the "Flower City Strategy", to promote a connection to its flower-growing heritage. The intention

5200-630: The Credit River. Williams Parkway is a modern road built in stages beginning in 1970s, beginning in Bramalea and was extended in stages over the next several decades west to Mississauga Road. It was slated be widened to six lanes between North Park Drive and McLaughlin Road in 2020, but the project was shelved after the David Suzuki Foundation , a prominent Canadian environmental group, lobbied for its cancellation, although construction of replacement noise walls and tree-clearing for

5304-544: The Hewetson Shoe Company. It was listed as a historical property under the Ontario Heritage Act in 2008. Today it is occupied by various small businesses. The lobby and hallways retain details from 1907. Walls are decorated with pictures and artifacts of local Brampton history and old shoemaking equipment. A self-guided historical walking tour of downtown Brampton called "A Walk Through Time"

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5408-540: The Queen Street section, Main also carried the Highway 7 designation between Queen and Bovaird as the latter highway jogged along it between those two roadways. The aforementioned Hurontario LRT line was originally proposed to continue up Main to the Brampton GO station , but this section was cancelled after opposition to building it through the downtown area. Kennedy Road is named after Thomas Laird Kennedy ,

5512-723: The TTC Finch West (ordered in 2017 with delivery beginning 2021 to be completed by 2023), Hurontario and Eglinton LRT lines. The Hurontario LRT maintenance facility is currently being built in Brampton. William Osler Health System operates two health facilities in the city (Peel Memorial and Brampton Civic Hospital). It is also the location of the Canadian Forces Army Reserve unit The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) . Lululemon & Pet Valu have their main GTA distribution centres in

5616-541: The Wanless Drive baseline east of Heart Lake Road, running east to Highway 50. As of 2021, most of the area along the road corridor as far east as The Gore Road are under are either development or recently developed, but remains rural east of there to Highway 50. Mayfield Road is designated as Peel Road 14 (and historically the 17th Sideroad, a moniker it still carries to the west in Halton Region) and marks

5720-471: The addition of a nine-storey tower at 41 George Street and is connected to the original building by a glass walkway called Heritage Way. In 1991, development of another new town, Springdale , began. In 1999, development started to appear as far north as the city's border with Caledon along Mayfield Road. The Region designated this border as the line of demarcation for urban development until 2021, although development already began spilling north of Mayfield in

5824-518: The adjacent Wanless/Countryside Drives is only about 1 km (0.6 mile). Rural until the 2000s, the road's corridor is seeing rapid development as residential expansion encroaches from the south, mostly concentrated along the central section; mostly on the Brampton side, but also, to a lesser degree, on the Caledon (north) side. All roads continue south into Mississauga and/or north into Caledon unless described otherwise. Winston Churchill Boulevard

5928-802: The area in the 1600s. In October 1818, the chief of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation signed Treaty 19, also known as the Ajetance Purchase, surrendering the area to the British Crown . Prior to the 1830s, most business in Chinguacousy Township took place at Martin Salisbury's tavern. One mile from the corner of Hurontario Street and the 5th Sideroad (now Main and Queen Streets in

6032-456: The centre of Brampton), William Buffy's tavern was the only significant building. At the time, the intersection was referred to as "Buffy's Corners". By 1834, John Elliott laid out the area in lots for sale, calling it "Brampton", which was soon adopted by others. In 1853, a small agricultural fair was set up by the newly initiated County Agricultural Society of the County of Peel and was held at

6136-419: The centre of Chinguacousy Township, though it was the boundary between Toronto Gore and Albion Townships (east of Airport Road) until 1974. Uniquely, the road is not divided into east and west sections, and address numbers follow the Caledon numbering system; starting at the city's western boundary and increasing as it runs eastward. Also, despite both being concession roads, the spacing between Mayfield and

6240-585: The city when crossing Mayfield Road but continues a short distance north of it to include Snelgrove, north of which it has ramps connecting to Highway 410, which terminates there as it transitions onto northbound Highway 10 (its present southern terminus) to Orangeville . A light rail transit line, the Hurontario LRT is planned to run along southern section of Hurontario as far as the Brampton Gateway Terminal at Steeles Avenue It

6344-763: The city. Wolseley Plumbing built a distribution Center and showroom in Brampton in 2024. List of roads in Brampton#Main Street The following is a list of non-numbered and numbered ( Peel Regional Roads ) in Brampton , Ontario . Most major roads in Brampton are concession roads laid out in the early 19th Century, in what was then Chinguacousy and Toronto Gore Townships. In Chinguacousy, east–west roads were historically called either concessions or sideroads, while north–south roads were called lines. north–south roads were surveyed from Hurontario Street (which includes present-day Main Street) as

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6448-450: The company moved to its third and current location, 103 Queen Street West, it took the new name of Peel Mutual Insurance Company. It reigns as the longest-running company in modern Brampton. Harmsworth Decorating Centre was established in 1890, as Harmsworth and Son, operated out of the family's house on Queen Street West. The current location was purchased on September 1, 1904, after a fire destroyed their original store. Purchased for $ 1,400,

6552-489: The corner of Main and Queen streets. Grains, produce, roots, and dairy products were up for sale. Horses and cattle, along with other lesser livestock, were also sold at the market. This agricultural fair eventually became the modern Brampton Fall Fair . In that same year, Brampton was incorporated as a village. In 1866, the town became the county seat and the location of the Peel County Courthouse which

6656-552: The fair had 18 pavilions attracting 45,000 visitors. Brampton has grown to become one of the most diverse cities in Canada. In 1996, the city was 13% South Asian and 8.2% black. By 2016, the South Asian community grew significantly to represent 44.3% of the city's population, while the black population grew to 14%. Responding to a growing multi-cultural population, the Peel Board of Education introduced evening English as

6760-466: The farmer William Sheard, who owned a large parcel of cattle grazing land that he sold for the new venture—through which it passes. It has its own unique address numbering anomaly with a numbering sequence distinct from both the main grid and north–south systems for the section between Steeles Avenue and Queen Street Torbram Road's name is a portmanteau of Toronto (likely referring to the former Toronto Township) and Bramalea or Brampton . Airport Road

6864-499: The first between Bramsteele and Selby Roads, the second between Orenda Road and Clark Boulevard (both retained to maintain access to buildings predating the highway's construction), and the third between Bovaird Drive and Mayfield Rd, which continues north into Caledon. Today, only the northernmost section is an arterial road, with the 410 bypassing it to the east to avoid the Heart Lake Conservation Area, which

6968-400: The former hamlet of Huttonville, four lanes wide from there to Bovaird Drive, but is still only two lanes north of Williams Parkway in the north of the city, which is (as of 2021) seeing rapid residential construction in the areas to the east. Creditview is broken road that is named due to it passing through the valley of the Credit River, crossing the river itself several times. To preserve

7072-600: The former rural hamlet of Castlemore . East of Highway 50, it continues into Vaughan as Rutherford Road—not to be confused with the Rutherford Road in Brampton—(York Regional Road 73). As Castlemore and Rutherford Roads did not originally line up at Highway 50, a new alignment of Castlemore was constructed to make the tie-in, with the bypassed section being renamed Old Castlemore Road. Sandalwood Parkway runs from Mississauga Road east to Airport Road. It

7176-548: The late 1980s, Mayor Ken Whillans gained approval and funding for the construction of a new city hall in Brampton's downtown. The facility was designed by local architects and built on the site of a former bus terminal. Whillians did not get to see the opening of the new hall in June 1991 because of his death in August 1990. Its completion brought the municipal government back to downtown Brampton. The facility expanded in 2014 with

7280-517: The late 2010s. Part of the boundary between Brampton and Vaughan is also nearly completely urbanized. Changes continue to reflect the growth of the city. In 1992 the City purchased the Brampton Fairgrounds, to be used for other development. The Agricultural Society relocated in 1997 outside the boundaries of the city to Heart Lake and Old School roads. Brampton's 2003 Sesquicentennial celebrations boosted community spirit, reviving

7384-475: The latter city's historic Meadowvale Village . Chinguacousy Road is a continuation of Mavis Road and runs from Steeles Avenue north into Caledon, with a short bypassed stub south of Ray Lawson Boulevard where Mavis Road curves in from the southeast to tie into the main segment, subsuming a short stretch of the street. As mentioned in the Mavis Road section, it was formerly Second Line West. A short section of

7488-591: The leadership of councillor Diane Sutter. It adapted the former vaudeville venue and movie house as a performing arts theatre, to be used also as a live music venue. It was renamed the Heritage Theatre. Renovations and maintenance were expensive. In 1983, Toronto consultants Woods Gordon reported to the City that, rather than continue "pouring money" into the Heritage, they should construct a new 750-seat facility with up-to-date features. This recommendation

7592-504: The mass provincial highway downloadings of the late 1990s, the Highway 7 designation along both Queen and Bovaird was replaced with the present Peel Road 107 for continuity, with the westernmost portion of the street later being designated as Peel Road 6 west of McMurchy Avenue. This former status as Highway 7 was a factor in making the street one of Brampton's busiest roads, as its importance as an arterial relative to parallel streets diminishes west of Main Street due to it being truncated at

7696-445: The meridian. Toronto Gore Township used a different naming convention, with the concession road designation being used for north–south roads as well. The grid is rectangular, with the historic north–south roads spaced at 3 km  (1.9 mile) intervals, and east–west roads at 1.4 km (0.85 mile) intervals. Most of the original major north–south roads run fully through the city and continue into Mississauga and Caledon , with

7800-402: The mid-2000s, concurrent with the extension of Highway 410, with the final sections being completed later that decade. East of Airport Road, it becomes Humberwest Parkway and turns south. Wanless Drive runs east from Winston Churchill Boulevard and runs east to Hurontario Street, where it continues east as Conservation Drive, a minor collector road that ends east of Kennedy Road Both roads are

7904-584: The new City of Mississauga. In addition, it created the present City of Brampton from the town and the greater portion of the Townships of Chinguacousy and Toronto Gore , and the northern extremity of Mississauga south of Steeles Avenue , including Bramalea and the other communities such as Churchville , Claireville, Ebenezer, Victoria, Springbrook, Coleraine , and Huttonville. While only Huttonville and Churchville still exist as identifiable communities, other names like Claireville are re-emerging as names of new developments. The province converted Peel County into

8008-497: The northern boundary of Toronto Township (later the Town of Mississauga between 1968 and 1974) until the municipal restructuring of 1974 brought it fully within Brampton when the new city limits were set to the south at the-then future Highway 407 corridor and the Canadian National Halton Subdivision . This resulted in the community of Churchville becoming part of Brampton. Before 1967, it

8112-416: The northern boundary of Brampton across the entire city with the Town of Caledon, except for the area around Hurontario Street, where it shifts north to include the entirety of Snelgrove (originally named Edmonton ), which straddles Mayfield, within Brampton. At 21.8 km (13.6 miles) long, it is the longest arterial in the city. Historically, most of Mayfield was not a municipal boundary, but ran through

8216-416: The original section still branches off Highway 50 as a stub east of the new alignment, and still bears the name, giving the road two parallel segments. It becomes Humber Station Road in Caledon. Coleraine Drive is designated Peel Road 150 and spurs off Highway 50, where it turns east to continue as Major Mackenzie Drive (York Road 25) into Vaughan, and runs north to Mayfield Road where it continues north into

8320-547: The post season. In the summer of 2012, the team was moved to St. Catharines and renamed the Niagara Lock Monsters. With a new look and a new roster, the Lock Monsters were able to secure top spot in the standings with a record of 11-3. In light of their first-place finish, the Lock Monsters earned a bye into the semi-finals and were set to face the Iroquois Ironmen . In a back and forth nail biter of

8424-436: The river valley and the hamlet of Churchville it has been retained as a minor rural road in the southern two-thirds of the city, where it is bypassed by James Potter Road (see below) . It begins at a dead end just north of Highway 407 (though it previously continued south into Mississauga , but was severed through the municipal boundary area), passes through Churchville and jogs east at Steeles Avenue and continues north through

8528-432: The river valley. It leaves the valley south of Queen Street and enters an urban area with homes fronting the road, though it still retains its original rural cross-section though much of the area. The bypassed section breaks at Williams Parkway (by curving at 90° to become short frontage streets along it) and ends at James Potter Road. James Potter turns to run north, where it ends at Bovaird Drive. There, Creditview becomes

8632-437: The river was originally intended to be an extension of) further south. Bovaird Drive runs from the western city limits (at the location where Winston Churchill Boulevard diverts west of the boundary near Norval ), where it continues from Highway 7 (Guelph Street) coming from Georgetown (an unincorporated town within Halton Hills ), east to Airport Road, where it continues as Castlemore Road. Bovaird, along with Queen Street,

8736-434: The road north of Queen Street formed the boundary between the Town of Brampton and the namesake former Chinguacousy Township between 1960 and the 1974 amalgamation. McLaughlin Road is the westernmost street in the city with designated north and south sections divided by Queen Street between Steeles Avenue and Bovaird Drive McLaughlin generally runs near Fletcher's Creek, with the creek running directly alongside it for most of

8840-606: The road widening were already completed. Cottrelle Boulevard is a modern road constructed in the 1990s and runs from Airport Road east to Highway 50 (with a break at the Humber River , where it continues into Vaughan as Langstaff Road ( York Regional Road 71 ). As of March 2024, two bridges to cross the river valley are under construction to join the two sections, after several years of delays due to opposition by environmentalists , who successfully stopped an earlier plan to bridge Williams Parkway (which most of Cottrelle east of

8944-466: The second quarter of 2024. Notably, the city is majority populated by people of South Asian origin. Before the arrival of British settlers, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation held 648,000 acres (262,000 ha) of land north of the head of the Lake Purchase lands and extending to the unceded territory of the Chippewa of Lakes Huron and Simcoe. European settlers began to arrive in

9048-552: The section north of Bovaird. It was the western town limits of Brampton for much of the town's early history. Hurontario (and Main) Street was formerly Highway 10, and is a historic route running north from Port Credit in present-day Mississauga, through Brampton, and terminating in Collingwood . Its name comes from the two lakes it runs between; Huron and Ontario , and today is subsumed by Main Street between Steeles Avenue and Bovaird Drive. Uniquely, Hurontario does not leave

9152-547: The south city limits near Highway 407 and Steeles Avenue It is designated as Peel Road 18. and is the shortest stretch of designated regional road in Peel, encompassing only the Brampton section of the street, extending neither south along it into Mississauga or further north via Chinguacousy Road. Mavis was built in the late 1990s as a bypass of Chinguacousy (former Second Line, and still designated as such in Mississauga) in both Brampton south of Steeles and Mississauga to avoid

9256-436: The southern leg of Goreway Drive, diagonally northwest to north of Bovaird Drive where it turns west to become Sandalwood Parkway after crossing Airport Road It is named after the west branch of the Humber River which it runs parallel to Goreway Drive is the easternmost road in Brampton to continue into both Mississauga and Caledon, though it changes name to Innis Lake Road in Caledon. A short section just north of Queen Street

9360-468: The town, with a specific condition that it be made into a park. Citizens donated $ 1,054 and the town used the funds to purchase extra land to ensure a larger park. A group of regional farmers in Brampton had trouble getting insurance from city-based companies. After several meetings in Clairville Hall, they decided to found the County of Peel Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company. In 1955, when

9464-456: The town. In January 1867, Peel County separated from the County of York, a union which had existed since 1851. By 1869, Brampton had a population of 1,800. It was incorporated as a town in 1873. A federal grant had enabled the village to found its first public library in 1887, which included 360 volumes from the Mechanic's Institute (established in 1858). In 1907, the library received

9568-571: The tradition of a summer parade (with 100 floats), and creating other initiatives. To commemorate the town's history, the city under Mayor Fennell reintroduced floral projects to the community. These have included more plantings around town, the revival in 2005 of the city Parade, and participation in the Canada Communities in Bloom project. Brampton has a total land area of 265 square kilometres (102 sq mi). The City of Brampton

9672-404: The west end of Bolton , a large community within Caledon. It still runs through a wholly rural area in the extreme northeast corner of Brampton. Highway 50 runs north from Steeles Ave, where it continues south as Albion Road into Toronto (at the only location where Brampton and Toronto meet), and continues into Caledon as the main artery of Bolton. It is a very busy and mostly six-lane road, and

9776-489: The western half of the original concession road that is broken by the Heart Lake Conservation Area , which resumes east of Heart Lake Road as Countryside Drive (described below) . The areas along the street were largely developed during 2010s, and the road is notable for having an unusually large number of stormwater management ponds along much of its length. Countryside Drive is a resumption of

9880-600: Was adopted, and the city designated the 2005–06 season as the Heritage Theatre's "grand finale" season. The city funded construction of the new Rose Theatre , which opened in September 2006. Carabram was founded in 1982, the result of volunteers from different ethnic communities wanting to organize a festival celebrating diversity and cross-cultural friendship. The name was loosely related to Toronto's Caravan Festival of Cultures. Carabram's first event featured Italian , Scots , Ukrainian , and West Indian pavilions. By 2003,

9984-401: Was built in 1865–66; a three-storey County jail was added at the rear in 1867. Edward Dale, an immigrant from Dorking , England, established a flower nursery in Brampton shortly after his arrival in 1863. Dale's Nursery became the town's largest and most prominent employer, developed a flower grading system, and established a global export market for its products. The company chimney was

10088-401: Was built in phases beginning in the late 1970s to serve the then-new Heart Lake neighbourhood. Originally only consisting of a short section between Hurontario Street and Heart Lake Road, it was extended west of Hurontario in the mid-1980s, and a second, separate section was constructed between Dixie and Bramalea Roads in the early 1990s, with the gap between Dixie and Heart Lake Roads closed in

10192-538: Was known as the Upper Base Line Clark Boulevard is a sinuous road that runs east from Rutherford Road and continues east to Airport Road, where it ends at the entrance to Canadian National's Brampton Intermodal Terminal . As of 2021, there are plans to extend the street west to Kennedy Road by incorporating a section of Eastern Avenue. Embleton Road is a short and still-rural two-lane road running east from Winston Churchill Boulevard as

10296-481: Was not divided into east–west sections. Bovaird is still only two lanes wide as it runs through the still-rural west end of the city, widens to four lanes at Mississauga Road, then expands again to six east of the overpass over the CN Guelph Subdivision until Airport Road Castlemore Road is the eastern continuation of Bovaird Drive, through what was originally Toronto Gore Township. It is named after

10400-427: Was once designated as Highway 7, following Main Street and later Highway 410 to Queen Street before being downloaded and redesignated as regional roads (with the non-highway section of Bovaird being numbered as Peel Road 10) as described in the section of the latter street. Before the downloading the road only bore the name east of Main and Hurontario Streets (with the portion to the west simply being Highway 7), and thus

10504-425: Was once known as "The Flower Town of Canada", a title referring to its abundance of greenhouses and strong floriculture industry in the 1860s. It maintains the term "Flower City" as its slogan. In recent times, the city has experienced large population growth. Despite being built as a car-centric city, Brampton has a significant transit system, with a ridership of 49,200,800, or about 226,500 per weekday as of

10608-512: Was originally part of Heart Lake, while the northernmost section is a later-built extension that veers east to tie into West Drive West Drive is a northerly continuation of Tomken Road north of Steeles Avenue and runs north to Queen Street, where it continues north as Laurelcrest Street. It originally had a break at the CN tracks midway between Steeles and Queen. Dixie Road is designated Peel Road 4 (and also, as of 2016, Veterans Memorial Roadway), and

10712-422: Was the mother tongue of 42.9% of the population. The next most common mother tongues were Punjabi (21.7%), Gujarati (3.4%), Urdu (3.4%), Hindi (3%), and Tamil (2.2%). The most commonly known languages were English (95.1%), Punjabi (29.1%), Hindi (17.5%), Urdu (6%), Gujarati (4.7%), and French (4.6%). Companies with headquarters in Brampton include MDA Space Missions , which will be building

10816-467: Was to inspire design projects and community landscaping to beautify the city, adopt a sustainable environmental approach, and to protect its natural and cultural heritage. The Rose Theatre was named in keeping with this vision and is to serve as a cultural institution in the city. In addition, the city participates in the national Communities in Bloom competition as part of that strategy. The Old Shoe Factory, located on 57 Mill Street North, once housed

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