Professor's Lake, Brampton

Professor's Lake is a 65-acre spring-fed artificial lake located in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Beginning in 1918, the area where the lake currently exists was used as a sand and gravel facility supplying construction aggregate for construction projects in the northwest area of the Greater Toronto Area. In total, the facility produced approximately 20 million tones of sand and gravel. It reopened as a quarry from 1954 to 1973. By the early 70s the site, now operated by Standard Aggregates Ltd. had run out of sand and gravel. For several years it was used as a sand and gravel processing and storage facility as Standard Aggregates shipped in raw material from other aggregate deposits in the area. Later In the 70s Standard Aggregates eventually closed the operation and moved all of the equipment to their other operations around Southern Ontario. They then rehabilitated the site with the intention that it would eventually be used for residential housing. Standard Aggregates was awarded "The Bronze Plaque Award" for the rehabilitation by the Ontario Stone, Sand & Gravel Association for the quality of the rehabilitation. That plaque is mounted on a boulder outside the current Recreation center next to the parking lot. ()