| Bronte Creek | |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Ontario |
| 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 Type5: | Municipalities |
| Subdivision Name5: | Puslinch, Hamilton, Burlington, Oakville |
| Source1: | wetland |
| Source1 Location: | Puslinch |
| Source1 Coordinates: | 43.4414°N -80.1267°W |
| Source1 Elevation: | 330m (1,080feet) |
| Mouth: | Lake Ontario |
| Mouth Location: | Oakville |
| Mouth Coordinates: | 43.3928°N -79.7064°W |
| Mouth Elevation: | 74m (243feet) |
| River System: | Great Lakes Basin |
| Basin Size: | 315km2[1] |
| Tributaries Left: | Mountsberg Creek, Flamboro Creek, Kilbride Creek, Limestone Creek, Indian Creek |
| Tributaries Right: | Strabane Creek, Willoughby Creek, Lowville Creek, Mount Nemo Creek |
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[2] (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.[3]
Bronte Creek in Ojibwe is "Eshkwesing-ziibi",[4] "Esqui-sink", "Eshkwessing", "ishkwessin", and "Asquasing" ("that which lies at the end").[5] [6] [7] [8]
A village site associated with the Neutral people and located on the east bank of the creek, the Hood site, was excavated in 1977.[9]
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.[10]