Halton
Oakville
A harbour town that has been wealthy for two hundred years and looks it. Low brick, old trees, two lakefront villages, and a main street that still mostly closes at six.
Read the guide
Area Guides
Everywhere between Burlington and Bowmanville.
All 29 of them. What each place is actually like rather than what it sells as, how the locals say the name, what is worth the drive, and the one drawback nobody mentions on a listing.
Halton Region4
Halton
Burlington
Technically Halton, spiritually its own thing. Burlington sits between the lake and the escarpment, with the country's largest botanical garden on one side and its largest ribfest on the other, and it turns up near the top of the best-place-to-live lists most years.
Read the guideHalton
Milton
The fastest-growing town in Canada for much of the last twenty years, sitting directly under the Niagara Escarpment. Half of Milton is brand new; the other half is a limestone main street, a ski hill and a velodrome.
Read the guideHalton
Halton Hills
Georgetown and Acton, joined by a township and separated by fifteen minutes of farmland. Escarpment, Bruce Trail, two proper main streets, and a leather-tanning history that Acton has turned into a festival.
Read the guide
