About Milton

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Milton Ontario has a population of about 54,000. Milton is a town in southern Ontario, Canada, part of the Greater Toronto Area, located 40 km west of Toronto on Highway 401, and is the western terminus for GO Transit's Milton Line commuter train and bus corridor. Milton is the seat of Halton Region, and is on the edge of Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO world biosphere reserve and the Bruce Trail.

Residential real estate growth has increased substantially in Milton over the past several years due to completion of "The Big Pipe" project; designed to deliver water to the town from Lake Ontario. Since this time, Milton has developed 4 new subdivisions, including Hawthorne Village, and several new ones are under development by Mattamy Homes and various other builders.