About Oakville

Enjoy Your Day in Oakville

Enjoy Your Day in Oakville

 

About Oakville

Oakville is home to over 183,000 residents and is located near Lake Ontario, Toronto and Niagara Falls. Surrounding communities include Burlington, Hamilton, Mississauga and Milton.

OakvilleBlog is all about life in Oakville to help residents and visitors get the most out of their time in beautiful Oakville, Ontario.

Enjoy Your Day in Oakville!


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Getting Around Oakville

Oakville Transit provides bus transportation around town and also to the GO Train hubs.  Even in the new areas such as Bronte Creek are connected to the Oakville Transit grid. For example the number 5 picks up and drops off throughout the Bronte Creek area and procedes back along Dundas.

Oakville Transit Map

Oakville Transit Map

For further information on public transportation throughout Oakville, visit Oakville Transit.

Oakville is home to many fine schools under the supervision of the Halton District School Board and the Halton Catholic School Board.   The climate and weather in Oakville is seasonal with snowy winters and hot summers.  Oakville is home to several public libraries where books can be checked out, but also where online services operated through the library can be accessed.   Visitors can stay in a number of hotels around Oakville or in neighboring Burlington or Mississauga, Ontario.  Those looking to live in the Oakville area will find many fine homes across various price points in the neighborhood.

With constant infrastructure improvement such as the widening of roads (recently Bronte Road  and Upper Middle Road) as well as the construction of major indoor sports facilities such as the Pine Glen Soccer Centre, the Quad Ice Pad and facility near Neyagawa and the new Oakville Hospital now being constructed north of Dundas Road near Third Line, Oakville is constantly improving the lifestyles of its visitors and residents.  It’s great to be able to call Oakville home.