Northwest Corner of Dundas and Hamilton Street

Before the 1950s, Waterdown’s commercial district had been located entirely between the Main and Mill Street section of Dundas Street. A gradual growth in the village’s population and residential construction following the end of World War II and an influx of European immigrants into Flamborough resulted in a demand for additional and improved commercial opportunities. Beginning first along the east side of Hamilton Street North with the arrival of the village’s first grocery chain, the IGA, and then across to the northwest corner of Dundas and Hamilton Streets with the opening of a Sunoco Service Station in 1953.

Land north of this corner, that had until the late 1950s been part of the Metcalfe Family Market Gardening Farm, became the village’s first large-scale commercial development when the Rosart Brothers purchased it in the 1980s. Now known locally as the ‘Sobey’s plaza,’ grocery stores have been the major tenants of the development that now also includes restaurants and a pharmacy.