Home, work and play… that’s my Mississauga!

Made up of many small villages and towns Mississauga was unified as a city in Southern Ontario in 1974. Here are some quick facts to bring you up to speed about the great City of Mississauga

• Canada’s sixth-most populous municipality which has almost doubled in population every two decades; currently holding a population over 660,000 residents.
• The name Mississauga originates from when trades had found First Nations groups around the Credit River; they had named them Mississaugas.
• The various communities settled include: Lakeview, Clarkson, Cooksville, Dixie, Erindale (called Springfield until 1890), Lorne Park, Port Credit, Sheridan, Streetsville, Meadowvale and Summerville. Part of northeast Mississauga, including the Airport lands and Malton were part of Gore Township.
• In 1873, with continued growth seen in this area, the Toronto Township Council was formed to oversee the affairs of the various villages that were unincorporated at that time.
• Cottages were constructed along Lake Ontario in the 1920's as weekend getaway houses for weary city dwellers.
• Malton Airport opened in 1937, which would later become Canada's busiest airport, Toronto Pearson International Airport.
• The Queen Elizabeth Way highway, one of the first controlled access highways in the world, opened in 1939. The first suburban developments occurred around the same time.
• Development in general moved north and west from there; large scale developments such as in Meadowvale and Erin Mills sprung up in the 1960s and 70s.
• With the exception of Port Credit and Streetsville, the township settlements were amalgamated by a somewhat unpopular provincial decree in 1968 to form the Town of Mississauga.
• In 1974, both were annexed and Mississauga became a city. That year, the sprawling Square One shopping center opened.
• Since 1974 Mississauga has only had Three Mayors; Dr. Martin Dobkin(1974-76), Ron A. Searle (1976-1978), and Hazel McCallion (1978- present).
• Mississauga is recognized as the safest city in Canada for 8 consecutive years in a row.

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