Burlington Ontario Homes For Sale

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Nestled along the north-west shore of Lake Ontario, Burlington belongs to the many communities which comprise the Golden Horseshoe region of the Niagara Peninsula in southern Ontario, Canada.

Burlington is one of four municipalities that make up the Regional Municipality of Halton. Burlington is located at the western end of the Greater Toronto area, and is only an hour north of the U.S. border.  The Halton Region itself contains four distinct municipalities: The City of Burlington and the Towns of Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville. Both Halton Hills and Milton are primarily rural areas, with Oakville and Burlington being more urban in composition.

The City of Burlington began as a small town of 3,500 acres known as Brant’s Block, named after founder Captain Joseph Brant, a visionary of commerce and industry who settled in what is present day downtown Burlington in 1794.  Later, the prosperously growing hamlet was renamed “Burlington” in honour of the distinctive rolling accents, or “burr” in the speech of the influx of Scottish settlers who came to the area in the early nineteenth century.  Today many distinctive heritage buildings still remain in the area, providing an enduring and vivid link to Burlington’s rich cultural past.

What began as one man’s dream of establishing a successful, prosperous town has grown into a thriving, modern day metropolis that supports a network of merchants and manufacturers.  Businesses ranging from the international shipping of sophisticated aerospace components to designing global positioning systems and investment/banking firms managing billions of dollars in mutual funds are all based in Burlington.  Every facet of business and manufacturing is represented.  A far cry from Joseph Brant’s Burlington, today’s city is a hub of cultural, business and technological excellence.

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