The City of Burlington - A Great City on a Great Lake - is located in Southern Ontario on the north shore of Lake Ontario between Hamilton and Toronto at the west end of the Greater Toronto Area. The city is a growing municipality with a population of just over 170,000. Burlington offers a quality of life second to none: from recreational pools, six community centres and some of the best hiking in the world; to the arts that include the Burlington Art Centre, the Burlington Performing Arts Centre, the Royal Botanical Gardens and the Joseph Brant Museum.