Bronte Creek

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| name = Bronte Creek

| native_name = {{native name|ojg|Eshkwesing-ziibi}}

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| image = Bridge improvement.jpg

| image_caption = 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.

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| pushpin_map = Canada Southern Ontario

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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of the mouth of Bronte Creek in southern Ontario

| subdivision_type1 = Country

| subdivision_name1 = Canada

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = Ontario

| subdivision_type3 = Region

| subdivision_name3 = Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

| subdivision_type4 = County, City, Regional Municipality

| subdivision_name4 = Wellington, Hamilton, Halton

| subdivision_type5 = Municipalities

| subdivision_name5 = Puslinch, Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville

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| source1 = wetland

| source1_location = Puslinch

| source1_coordinates= {{coord|43|26|29|N|80|07|36|W|display=inline}}

| source1_elevation = {{convert|330|m|abbr=on}}

| mouth = Lake Ontario

| mouth_location = Oakville

| mouth_coordinates = {{coord|43|23|34|N|79|42|23|W|display=inline,title}}

| mouth_elevation = {{convert|74|m|abbr=on}}

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| river_system = Great Lakes Basin

| basin_size = {{convert|315|km2|abbr=on}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.conservationhalton.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2024.02.29-Bronte-Creek-Structure-Survey-Report-v1.0.pdf|title = Bronte Creek Watershed - Structure Survey Study Report FHIMP Project: ON-22-035}}

| tributaries_left = Mountsberg Creek, Flamboro Creek, Kilbride Creek, Limestone Creek, Indian Creek

| tributaries_right = Strabane Creek, Willoughby Creek, Lowville Creek, Mount Nemo Creek

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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{{cite web |url=http://www.hamiltonnature.org/habitats/creek/creek_locations.htm |title=Creek Locations |work=Habitats of Hamilton and Halton |publisher=Hamilton Naturalists' Club |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121214002405/http://www.hamiltonnature.org/habitats/creek/creek_locations.htm |archive-date=14 December 2012 |url-status=dead }} (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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.brontecollection.ca/origins-bronte.php#:~:text=Founded%20in%201834%2C%20bronte%20began,King%20Ferdinand%20III%20of%20Sicily.|title = Origins of bronte™ | Bronte™ Collection}}

Bronte Creek in Ojibwe is "Eshkwesing-ziibi",Translate Ojibwe, Ojibwe-English Dictionary, "Eshkwesing-ziibi"[https://www.translateojibwe.com/en/dictionary-ojibwe-english/%09Eshkwesing-ziibi Link] "Esqui-sink", "Eshkwessing", "ishkwessin", and "Asquasing" ("that which lies at the end").{{Cite web|title = French Sketch Map, c. 1760|url = http://images.burlington.halinet.on.ca/9469/data|access-date = 2012-02-22|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140419011541/http://images.burlington.halinet.on.ca/9469/data|archive-date = 2014-04-19}}{{Cite book|title = A dictionary of the Otchipwe language, explained in English: Part II ..., Part 2|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=IzhOAAAAYAAJ&q=eshkwessing&pg=PA114|access-date = 2012-02-22|last1 = Baraga|first1 = Frederic|year = 1882}}[http://www.freelang.net/online/ojibwe.php?lg=gb FREELANG Ojibwe-English and English-Ojibwe online dictionary]{{cite book |last= Smith |first= Donald |date= 2013 |title= Sacred Feathers: The Reverend Peter Jones (Kahkewaquonaby) and the Mississauga Indians |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=UZKBAAAAQBAJ&q=ashquasing+st+catharines&pg=PA49-IA7 |location= |publisher= University of Toronto Press |page= 49 |isbn= 978-1-4426-1563-2}}