Safely enjoy our self-guided walks. We offer an advanced audio plus video versions of the Navy Street walk.

Please share your thoughts and suggestions with us about the walks below.

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This is an advanced audio podcast of the Navy Street Walk. 

While listening to the audio, follow the map. Clicking on the map will enlarge it. It might be better to print out the map before going on the walk. 

Many thanks to Mr. Josh Floyd, a student at Sheridan College, who authored and recorded this audio walk for us.

Audio Tour on street poster.

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The following video will be shown on Your-TV COGECO channel 23. 
The first viewing is scheduled for this Thursday evening, July 29th at 8pm. 

This video shows a much different historic perspective around Navy Street. It includes plans for the Coach House restoration.

Feel free to download and play it on a mobile device while exploring the Navy Street area. 
Pause the presentation while walking from one point to another.

Purchase a copy of Oakville and the Sixteen​.

The walk starts at the William Chisholm historic plaque. 
​"Colonel William Chisholm 1788-1842. The founder of Oakville was born in Nova Scotia of Loyalist parents who moved to Burlington Bay in 1793. William served with distinction in the militia during the War of 1812. He settled in Nelson Township in 1816 and became a successful store keeper, timber merchant and ship owner. In 1827, he purchased from the Crown 960 acres of uncleared land at the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek. Here, he built mills, laid out a town plot and opened the harbour to shipping. Chisholm was thrice elected to represent this district in the Legislative Assembly."

At the end of Navy Street there is a walk way that goes off to the east.

​Starting near the lake you will go up Navy Street to Robinson Street.

Cross Navy Street and return south toward the lake. Walk through the big white gates and end at the Oakville Historical Society.