Copetown is a community that is east of Brantford in the southern region of Ontario

Southern Ontario

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, Canada

Canada

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. Dundas Hill is located nearby, signifying its closeness to Dundas

Dundas, Ontario

Dundas is a formerly independent town and now constituent community in the city of Hamilton in Ontario, Canada. It's nickname is the Valley Town. The population has been stable for decades at about twenty thousand, largely because it has not annexed rural land from the protected Dundas Valley...

. There are a various number of golf course

Golf course

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s within the local area.

General summary

Residential areas are nearby; approximately 67% of the residents in Copetown have ownership of their home. However, all family units that apply for mortgage applications in Copetown consists of married

Marriage

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 couples with the average age of a Copetown mortgage holder being 36 years of age. Agriculture

Agriculture

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 and services are two major industries in Copetown. There are several commercial enterprises in Copetown (including the general store

General store

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 located off Highway 52 and the feed mill off Railway Street). For the local senior citizens, there is a retirement community

Retirement community

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 that is located in the village on the outskirts of Hamilton.

The community is located within the 905 area code for telephone

Telephone

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s and the postal

Postal code

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 forward sortation area in this region is L0R. Copetown also has a Lions Community Centre which is considered to be a service club for adults. Meetings take place first and third Monday during the months of September through June at 7 o'clock in the evening. Membership is required and the official language of the organization is English

Canadian English

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. The Copetowns are located in Ward 11 of the regional Lions Association and elections take place annually in April.

From the CN/VIA Railway, one can see the Feed Mill after the bridge. This location is actually where the old Copetown station used to be prior to closing due to lack of service. There is no high speed Internet for those who live in Copetown, other than the Internet supplied to the school. All Internet has to come via telephone (dial-up Internet), from satellite or wireless Internet. In addition to this, Copetown is a short drive to Flamboro Downs

Flamboro Downs

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, which is to the east. Copetown is located roughly ten kilometres from downtown Dundas. The centre of Copetown is the four-way stop at the intersection between Highway 52 and Governors Road. The TH&B railway used to run through Copetown by way of Old Highway 99, Slote Road and Highway 52 until it was closed in the late 1970s.

Copetown also had its own railway station, which too was closed in 1970s and turned into the local wholesale

Wholesale

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 feed mill now known as Quick Feeds Ltd., which is owned by Mr. David Quick and currently employs three people. Queen's Rangers Elementary School

Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board

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 was built in 1958, named after the rangers who had worked in the area.

Distance to nearby cities

• Burlington
  Burlington, Ontario
  Burlington , is a city located in Halton Region at the western end of Lake Ontario. Burlington is part of the Greater Toronto Area, and is also included in the Hamilton Census Metropolitan Area. Physically, Burlington lies between the north shore of Lake Ontario and the Niagara Escarpment...
  
   - 15 miles
• Oakville
  Oakville, Ontario
  Oakville is a town in Halton Region, on Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada, and is part of the Greater Toronto Area. As of the 2006 census the population was 165,613.-History:In 1793, Dundas Street was surveyed for a military road...
  
   - 25 miles
• Brantford - 25 miles
• Milton
  Milton, Ontario
  Milton is a town in Southern Ontario, Canada, and part of the Halton Region in the Greater Toronto Area. Milton received a tremendous amount of awareness following the release of the results of the 2006 Census, which indicated that Milton is the fastest growing municipality in the Greater Golden...
  
   - 30 miles
• Mississauga - 35 miles
• Toronto
  Toronto
  Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
  
   - 40 miles

External links

• Copetown Lions Club