Oakville’s extensive Lake Ontario shoreline includes three harbours, owned and operated by the Town of Oakville, accommodating several hundred sail and power boats as well as recreational facilities

• Oakville Harbour
• Bronte Outer Harbour
• Bronte Inner Harbour

Rates & Fees

• Harbours staff provide haul-out services, mast stepping and unstepping
• Operating, maintenance and capital improvements are funded from fees charged to boaters
• Harbours rates and fees are available on the Rates and Fees page

Fishing

Please look for ‘No Fishing’ signs, posted in areas where fishing is not permitted

Fishing is permitted

• on Sixteen Mile Creek (provided it is not off a bridge or roadway) a minimum of 50 metres upstream of the last upstream dock in the Oakville Harbour.
• on Bronte Creek north of the Rebecca Street bridge, at Petro Canada Park and other creek access points.
• on both sides of the west pier at Bronte Harbour

Evening Fishing Pilot Program

• permits evening fishing within designated areas of the east pier in Bronte Habour and east/west piers in Oakville Harbour
• program runs Aug 1 to Oct 15, from 9 pm to 12 midnight

For safety, fishing is not permitted in Oakville or Bronte harbours between May 15 and Oct 15, when the harbours are busy with boat and pedestrian traffic

Harbours By-Law

Harbours By-law 2012-007 has been approved by Town Council

Local Boating Associations

Contact individual clubs directly for information about activities and membership

• Association of Oakville Harbours Stakeholders (OAK0018)
• Bronte Harbour Yacht Club (OAK0756)
• Burloak Canoe Club (OAK0412)
• Charterability (OAK4122)
• Oakville Club (OAK0622)
• Oakville Power Boat Club (OAK0624)
• Oakville Power and Sail Squadron (OAK0625)
• Oakville Yacht Squadron (OAK3193)
• Wai Nui O Kanaka (OAK4382)

Harbour Infrastructure Upgrades

• Harbour Projects
• Clean Marine Program

Police & Water Rescue

• T.O.W.A.R.F. (Town of Oakville Water Air Rescue Force) (OAK1358)
• Halton Police Marine Unit

Office Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm

• applications for mooring slips due in mid Jan
• mooring lease effective May 1-Oct 31

Contact the Harbours Administrator for summer dockage or winter storage