Churchville, Brampton

Churchville
Unincorporated community
Aerial view of Churchville in 2021
Coordinates: 43°37′48″N 79°45′20″W
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Regional municipality	Peel
City	Brampton
Founded	1815
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Forward sortation area	List of L postal codes of Canada
Area code(s)	905 and 289
NTS Map	030M12
GNBC Code	FAQWC

Churchville is a preserved suburban hamlet in the south-west corner of Brampton, Ontario, Canada. The village was designated as a heritage conservation district under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1990, making it Brampton's only heritage conservation district.

History

Churchville, circa 1910

Churchville was founded in 1815 by Amaziah Church (1766-1831), who built a gristmill on the Credit River in what was then Toronto Township, York County (Peel County was created from York County in 1851). This small area surrounding the mill on the floodplain of the river valley was where the original settlement was focused.

Over the course of its history, the village grew to include homes, a slaughterhouse, a tannery, a school house, a wooden sidewalk, several churches and small hotels and a cemetery. Many of these structures no longer exist, although some houses have survived from Churchville's early period, and are designated heritage houses.

Churchville, along with the northern extremities of Mississauga (which Toronto Township was restructured into in 1967), were amalgamated into the enlarged City of Brampton on 1 January 1974 as part of the restructuring of Peel County into the Regional Municipality of Peel.

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  Plan of Churchville, 1877

Living in Churchville, Brampton

Churchville is a heritage community located in Brampton's southwestern corner, known for its preserved beauty and rural character.

Churchville is renowned for its Bridges Conservation Program, which preserves single-lane steel truss bridges and concrete archways. While the area has experienced some flooding in recent years, it remains a picturesque area with a variety of amenities and attractions for residents and visitors alike.

There are several parks in the area, including Gage Park and Churchville Park Trail, as well as various farm stores and orchards.

The village is also home to the Churchville Estates development, which was completed in 2019 and offers a range of new single-family homes.

Churchville offers a unique and distinctive community with a strong sense of history and heritage, as well as a range of modern amenities and attractions.

External links

• "Churchville". nrcan.gc.ca. Geographical Names, Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
• Marshall, Sean (5 February 2010). "GTA's Lost Villages: Churchville". spacingtoronto.ca. Archived from the original on 10 April 2012.
• Arora, Team (29 April 2023). "Living in Churchville, Brampton".