Bovaird Drive is a major arterial thoroughfare in the Canadian city of Brampton, Ontario that travels from outside of Norval, past Heritage Road, to Airport Road, where it is renamed Castlemore Road until the Peel-York Regional border. Previously the northern-most border for development for the City of Brampton, it has become synonymous with the city's sprawling development.
Route description
editStarting in the east, Bovaird Drive West passes through area that is currently still largely undeveloped, including the St. Elias Ukranian Catholic Church and Cemetery on Heritage Road. Shortly after Mississauga Road, it enters the Mount Pleasant community, an attempt at developing a New Urbanism area centred around the Mount Pleasant GO Station, a community centre, and a branch of the Brampton Library.[1] From that area, the road enters a more common pattern of housing development and commercial areas at most major intersections. At Chinguacousy Road is the Brampton Memorial Garden Cemetery, a facility opened in 1986. At McLaughlin Road, the two northern corners are retail-based, but just north of the northeast corner is an industrial section. Among other things, it includes offices for the Canadian Auto Workers Local 1285.
The road changes to Bovaird Drive East at Highway 10, which is known as Hurontario Street to the north, and Main Street North to the south. Brampton's first Walmart was located in the southeast corner.[2] The site was previously location of the Brampton Brick; road names in the area include Quarry Edge Drive, connected to Bovaird, as well as Brickyard Way, Yellow Brick Road, and Pressed Brick Drive.
Category:Roads in Brampton Category:Peel Regional Roads
- ^ http://www.brampton.ca/en/Business/planning-development/projects-studies/Pages/Mount-Pleasant-Village.aspx
- ^ "Brampton Wal-Mart store will employ 200". The Brampton Guardian. Brampton ON. 24 May 1995. p. 7. Retrieved 29 June 2011.