geo.wikisort.org - River

Search / Calendar

Bronte Creek is a waterway in the Lake Ontario watershed of Ontario Canada. It runs through Hamilton and Halton Region, with its source near Morriston[1] (south of the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 401), passing Bronte Creek Provincial Park, on its way to Lake Ontario at Bronte Harbour in Oakville, where the creek is also known as Twelve Mile Creek. Bronte takes its name from the title of the Duke of Bronté held by Horatio Nelson.[2]

The Bronte Creek bridge in 1936, built as part of The Middle Road, now known as the Queen Elizabeth Way. The original iron truss bridge from the country lane is in the foreground.
The Bronte Creek bridge in 1936, built as part of The Middle Road, now known as the Queen Elizabeth Way. The original iron truss bridge from the country lane is in the foreground.

Bronte Creek in Ojibwe is "Eshkwesing-ziibi",[3] "Esqui-sink", "Eshkwessing", "ishkwessin", and "Asquasing" ("that which lies at the end").[4][5][6] [7]


Geology


Just south of the Queen Elizabeth Way at the Bronte Road exit, the creek has exposed an outcrop of Queenston Formation red shale with narrow, greenish layers of calcareous sandstone and silty bioclastic carbonate.[8]


See also



References


  1. "Creek Locations". Habitats of Hamilton and Halton. Hamilton Naturalists' Club. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012.
  2. "Origins of bronte™ | Bronte™ Collection".
  3. Translate Ojibwe, Ojibwe-English Dictionary, "Eshkwesing-ziibi"Link
  4. "French Sketch Map, c. 1760". Archived from the original on 2014-04-19. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
  5. Baraga, Frederic (1882). A dictionary of the Otchipwe language, explained in English: Part II ..., Part 2. Retrieved 2012-02-22.
  6. FREELANG Ojibwe-English and English-Ojibwe online dictionary
  7. Smith, Donald (2013). Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians. University of Toronto Press. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-4426-1563-2.
  8. Brogly, P. J.; I. P. Martini; G. V. Middleton (1998). "The Queenston Formation: shale-dominated, mixed terrigenous-carbonate deposits of Upper Ordovician, semiarid, muddy shores in Ontario, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 35 (6): 702–719. Bibcode:1998CaJES..35..702B. doi:10.1139/cjes-35-6-702.



This article related to a river in Ontario, Canada is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e


Текст в блоке "Читать" взят с сайта "Википедия" и доступен по лицензии Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike; в отдельных случаях могут действовать дополнительные условия.

Другой контент может иметь иную лицензию. Перед использованием материалов сайта WikiSort.org внимательно изучите правила лицензирования конкретных элементов наполнения сайта.

2019-2025
WikiSort.org - проект по пересортировке и дополнению контента Википедии