Talk:Oakville, Ontario

Tie Domi
His official site states he lives year-round in Toronto, and I can find no other link to Oakville for him. Can somebody find verifiable sources for this information? Whpq 12:10, 28 March 2006 (UTC) Bacl-presby 19:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I guess hindsight is 20/20; is it Newmarket-Aurora or Ottawa?

Demographics
The demographics page is massive. I would like to condense it, but keep all the information.

Some of the features, like Mobility status, language use is unnecessary. I want to keep the important stuff and format it into percentages. I did this a while ago but someone changed it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Galati (talk • contribs)

Perhaps it should be mentioned that Oakville is the most expensive place to live in Canada.

"Oakville has the highest per-capita income in the country. " from http://www.uniquehomes.com/cms/0606_acrossborder.html74.109.137.125 00:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm working on a 'mother tongue' project pertaining to Oakville and just wanted to point out that a huge chunk of the mother tongue demographics are Chinese (when you add together Mandarin, Cantonese, and Chinese n.o.s.). Hopefully, I'll have a chance to update this section in the future but thought I would point this out in the meantime if the original contributer wished to update it. FutureInfoPro (talk) 21:22, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

General Cleanup
Similar to the sprawl of demographics, the Education section doesn't actually say much about education, and is instead a huge list of schools which might be better off as its own list page. Same goes for Notable People. Whpq 13:33, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Each have been moved off to their own pages. -- Whpq 13:00, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

West Mount
This article says that West Mount is part of Glen Abbey. It is actually part of Westoak Trails. I have made the correction. --Lesouris 02:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Community Website
Recently I updated information about a website which provides a directory of resources for families in Halton, Oakville, Milton, and Burlington, Ontario. This website provides a useful source of activity ideas, events and information; much of which are non-profit organizations. As with a local paper, this site provides a tool for visitors to access their community.

I would like to re-enter this information into the Halton Region page, if there are no objections.

Here is the 'dif' link for your reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regional_Municipality_of_Halton%2C_Ontario&diff=prev&oldid=131692018 —Preceding unsigned comment added by ParentInProgress (talk • contribs)


 * The website listed is a parents resource site. Wikipedia is not a directory service, and the site in question is not directly related Oakville, or Halton region, but rather just another resource page for services. I would suggest that you submit it to directory and web index sites such as dmoz. -- Whpq 21:19, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

Companies?
There should be info about industries like the weather network and stuff like that. They don't even have it because then they won't know where The Weather Network has it's HQ unless they look at the company's article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.250.198.100 (talk) 14:15, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

Neighbourhoods
Do anybody know if this "Neighbourhoods" stuff is used by the residents. While the planners may refer to Bronte as extending all the way to Morden Road, in my days there Bronte was at most the area west of the Third Line. Modal Jig (talk) 13:02, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * As a urban planning artifact, these neighbourhoods have specified boundaries, but the reality of neighbourhoods are that the borders are usually a bit loose and often people don't agree on where a neighbourhood ends. For the purpose of the article, I don't think it really matters much as the text clearly states that these neighbourhoods are divisions set up as part of the planning exercise by the town. -- Whpq (talk) 13:13, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
 * There are actual neighbourhoods (they might be called something else by oakville) that Oakville designates. Bronte does not extend to morden road in my opinion, and the area between the 14 mile creek and morden road, south of the QEW/403 highway is West Oakville/Pinegrove 2001:1970:55E8:7F00:0:0:0:9EF8 (talk) 05:15, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Isn't this a moot point as all the links providing proof are gone and are nowhere to be found? I think that whole section might as well be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.188.67.109 (talk) 03:42, 1 April 2012 (UTC)

media - newspaper
daily journal-record-star can't believe nobody has entered any info on this long-running thomson paper!76.71.96.67 (talk) 22:44, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
 * If you have sources for it, then by all means add it. -- Whpq (talk) 00:09, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Eastlake
In the cited document, the eastern border is clearly Winston Churchill, or Mississauga. There is no ambiguity.

Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding was a major industry during Oakville's early years. I will try and include more information.

John Tavares
In any smaller town, guaranteed Tavares would be recognized somewhere on their page. I know he hasn't hit 'prime time' in the NHL yet, but when would we add him to this page? He lives here, played hockey here and went to school here before shipping off to other places for hockey.
 * There is a pile of notable people associated with Oakville, and they are noted at List of people from Oakville, Ontario. -- Whpq (talk) 10:35, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

Oakville's beginnings
The following paragraph mentions people who existed in the 1820s.

"In 1820, the Crown bought the area surrounding the waterways. The area around the creeks, 960 acres (3.9 km2), ceded to the Crown by the Mississaugas,[3] was auctioned off to William Chisholm in 1827. He left the development of the area to his son, Robert Kerr Chisholm and his brother-in-law, Thomas Merrick."

But it does not go on to say that they had anything to do with Oakville or when the town was founded. The only clue in the whole article is the population table. --Oldontarian (talk) 10:49, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

William Chisholm's brother-in-law was Merrick Thomas rather than Thomas Merrick. Their wives Rebecca and Esther Silverthorn, were sisters. 76.64.196.120 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:05, 3 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks for catching that. I've made the correction.  Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that everyone can edit.  In the future, if you see something like this, be bold!  You can edit the article and correct the mistake! -- Whpq (talk) 18:10, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Default map display
I've swapped the pushpin maps around so that the southern Ontario map is the default. Wikipedia serves a global readership and that map provides better context for the location of the town versus a map showing the county. -- Whpq (talk) 18:27, 16 February 2021 (UTC)

Chelster Hall
A hella big house at 1150 Lakeshore Road East, Oakville, Canada. At $60 million, one of the most expensive homes in the world. What about a mention? 86.145.114.151 (talk) 15:01, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Source? CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 22:12, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Its on the Toronto Star website. Its also in a "The Globe and Mail" Youtube video and on their own website. and many other videos/websites. 2001:1970:55E8:7F00:0:0:0:9EF8 (talk) 05:20, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Sounds like trivia. Plus no links? CambridgeBayWeather (solidly non-human), Uqaqtuq (talk), Huliva 15:27, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
 * It is trivia. -- Whpq (talk) 17:19, 5 January 2024 (UTC)