Looking at the boundaries of Bronte Creek Provincial Park, it highlights the intersection and engagement of the zones that exist both beyond and within it. The residential, industrial, and natural spaces have influenced one another over time, generating the space and elements that are found within the park today. Through further investigation, the park and the greater community’s past is explored. Developing a new understanding of the site through the lenses of stewardship, access, and conservation allows for a better approach in interacting with these elements and their continued transformation. 

Bronte Creek is unique within the Ontario Parks system due to its urban status as it is amid several subdivisions and more industrial zones. It is designated as a Recreational Class park with a selected series of themes to be adhered to. Natural and Cultural Heritage Appreciation as its primary, realized through the promotion of a colonial narrative of settlers. Bronte Creek’s land is established from the Head of the Lake Purchase, 1806, between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit, while directly beside it is that of Treaty 22, 1820. The Mississaugas are currently undergoing a land claim review regarding Treaty 22, asserting that the agreement was not negotiated with the members of the community at the time.  

In looking at the history of this land and the outside development that has occurred in the past 50 years, the information can be categorized into three components: stewardship, access, and conservation. Stewardship discusses the various ‘claims of ownership’ over the land, focusing on the government, treaty lands, and the surrounding community development. Access focuses on both external and internal, and conservation looks at the larger ecological structure of the park. Through these categories, a series of recommendations and actions points have been developed to better serve the park’s future.