Mississauga

Mississauga /ˌmɪsɪˈsɔːɡə/ (listen)[3] is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario and a suburb of Toronto. It is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, bordering Toronto to the east. With a population of 721,599 as of the 2016 census, Mississauga is the sixth-most populous municipality in Canada, third-most in Ontario, and second-most in the Greater Toronto Area.[1][4]

This article is about the city in Ontario, Canada. For the aboriginal people, see Mississaugas. For the First Nation, see Mississauga First Nation. For the rattlesnake species, see Massasauga.

Mississauga
City (lower-tier)
City of Mississauga
Skyline of Mississauga in 2016

Flag

Coat of arms

Motto(s): 
Pride in our past, faith in our future Leading Today for Tomorrow
Location of Mississauga in the Regional Municipality of Peel in the province of Ontario
Mississauga
Location of Mississauga in southern Ontario
Coordinates: 43°36′N 79°39′W
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
RegionPeel
Established1968, as a town
Incorporated1974, as a city
Government
 • MayorBonnie Crombie
 • CouncilMississauga City Council
 • MPs
 • MPPs
Area
 • Total292.43 km2 (112.91 sq mi)
Elevation
156 m (512 ft)
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total721,599
 • Density2,467.60/km2 (6,391.1/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−05:00 (EST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Forward sortation area
L4T to L5W & M7R
Area code(s)905, 289, and 365
Demonym
  • Mississaugan
  • Saugan
[2]
Websitewww.mississauga.ca

The growth of Mississauga is attributed to its proximity to Toronto.[5] During the latter half of the 20th century, the city attracted a multicultural population and built up a thriving central business district.[6][7] It is home to Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada's busiest airport, as well as the headquarters of many Canadian and multinational corporations.

Etymology

The name Mississauga comes from the Anishinaabe word Misi-zaagiing, meaning "[Those at the] Great River-mouth".

Other forms such as Sauga, Saugans,[8] and Mississaugans,[2] are commonly used, the latter two in reference to the city's residents.

History

At the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the 1600s, both Iroquoian- and Algonquian-speaking peoples already lived in the Credit River Valley area. One of the First Nations groups the French traders found around the Credit River area were the Algonquian Mississaugas, a tribe originally from the Georgian Bay area. By 1700 the Mississaugas had driven away the Iroquois, yet during the Beaver Wars they played a neutral or post-emptive role.[9]

Toronto Township, consisting of most of present-day Mississauga, was formed on 2 August 1805 when officials from York (what is now the City of Toronto) purchased 84,000 acres (340 km²) of land from the Mississaugas. In January 2010, the Mississaugas and the federal government settled a land claim, in which the band of aboriginal people received $145,000,000, as just compensation for their land and lost income.[10]

The original villages (and some later incorporated towns) settled included: Lakeview, Clarkson, Cooksville, Dixie, Erindale (called Springfield until 1890), Lorne Park, Port Credit, Sheridan and Summerville. This region would become known as Toronto Township. Part of northeast Mississauga, including the Airport lands and Malton were part of Toronto Gore Township.[11]

After the land was surveyed, the Crown gave much of it in the form of land grants to United Empire Loyalists who emigrated from the Thirteen Colonies during and after the American Revolution, as well as loyalists from New Brunswick. A group of settlers from New York City arrived in the 1830s. The government wanted to compensate the Loyalists for property lost in the colonies and encourage development of what was considered frontier. In 1820, the government purchased additional land from the Mississaugas. Additional settlements were established, including: Barbertown, Britannia, Burnhamthorpe, Derry West, Elmbank, Malton, Meadowvale Village, Mount Charles, and Streetsville. European-Canadian growth led to the eventual displacement of the Mississaugas. In 1847, the government relocated them to a reserve in the Grand River Valley, near present-day Hagersville.[12][13] Pre-confederation, the Township of Toronto was formed as a local government; settlements within were not legal villages until much later. Except for small villages, some gristmills and brickworks served by railway lines, most of present-day Mississauga was agricultural land, including fruit orchards, through much of the 19th and first half of the 20th century.[9][14]

In the 1920s, cottages were constructed along the shores of Lake Ontario as weekend getaway houses for city dwellers.

In 1937, 1,410.8 acres of land was sold to build Malton Airport (later known as Pearson Airport). It became Canada's busiest airport which also put the end to the community of Elmbank.[15]

The Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) highway, one of the first controlled-access highways in the world, opened from Highway 27 to Highway 10 in Port Credit, in 1935 and later expanded to Hamilton and Niagara in 1939. The first prototypical suburban developments occurred around the same time, in the area south of the Dixie Road/QEW interchange. Development in general moved north and west from there over time and around established communities. Large-scale developments, such as Erin Mills and Meadowvale sprang up in the 1968 and 1969 respectively.

While the Township had many settlements within (including Lakeview, Cooksville, Lorne Park, Clarkson, Erindale, Sheridan, Dixie, Meadowvale Village) none of the hamlets were legally existent, and all residents were represented by a singular Township council. (Malton had special status as a police village, allowing it partial autonomy.) To reflect the community's shift away from rural to urban, council converted into a Town in 1968. Port Credit and Streetsville were remained separate, uninterested in ceding their autonomy or being taxed to the needs of a growing municipality. A 1965 call for public input on naming the town received thousands of letters offering hundreds of different suggestions.[16] The town name was chosen by plebiscite over "Sheridan". Political will, as well as a belief that a larger city would be a hegemony in Peel County, kept Port Credit and Streetsville as independent island towns encircled by the Town of Mississauga. In 1974, both were annexed by Mississauga when it reincorporated as a city. That year, the sprawling Square One Shopping Centre opened, which has since expanded many times.[17]

On 10 November 1979, a 106-car freight train derailed on the CP rail line while carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals just north of the intersection of Mavis Road and Dundas Street. One of the tank cars carrying propane exploded, and since other tank cars were carrying chlorine, the decision was made to evacuate nearby residents. With the possibility of a deadly cloud of chlorine gas spreading through Mississauga, 218,000 people were evacuated.[18]

Mississauga Civic Centre seen from the south-east. This design was supposed to reflect the influence of farmsteads which once occupied much of Mississauga,[19] the architecture is based on a "futuristic farm" (the clock tower is the windmill, the main building on the top-right corner is the farmhouse, the cylindrical council chamber is the silo, and the building on the bottom left represents a barn).[20]

Residents were allowed to return home, once the site was deemed safe. At the time, it was the largest peacetime evacuation in North American history. Due to the speed and efficiency in which it was conducted, many cities later studied and modelled their own emergency plans after Mississauga's. For many years afterwards, the name "Mississauga" was, to Canadians, associated with a major rail disaster.[21]

North American telephone customers placing calls to Mississauga (and other post-1970 Ontario cities) may not recognise the charge details on their billings. The area's incumbent local exchange carrier, Bell Canada, continues to split the city into five historical rate centres–Clarkson, Cooksville, Malton, Port Credit, and Streetsville. However, they are combined as a single Mississauga listing in the phone book. Touch-Tone telephones were first introduced at Malton, the first in Canada, on 15 June 1964.[22]

On 1 January 2010, Mississauga bought land from the Town of Milton and expanded its border by 400 acres (1.6 km2) to Highway 407, affecting 25 residents.[23]

Geography
Overview map of Mississauga, including neighbourhoods, land use patterns, and transport corridors
The Credit River
Aerial view of Mississauga

Mississauga covers 288.42 square kilometres (111.36 sq mi) of land,[24] fronting 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) of shoreline on Lake Ontario.

Mississauga is bounded by Oakville and Milton to the west/southwest, Brampton to the north, Toronto to the east, and Lake Ontario to the south/south-east. Halton Hills borders Mississauga's north-west corner. With the exception of the southeast border with Toronto (Etobicoke Creek), Mississauga shares a land border with all previously mentioned municipalities.

Two major river valleys feed into the lake. The Credit River is by far the longest with the heaviest flow, it divides the western side of Mississauga from the central/eastern portions and enters the lake at the Port Credit harbour. The indented, mostly forested valley was inhabited by first nation peoples long before European exploration of the area. The valley is protected and maintained by the Credit Valley Conservation Authority (CVCA).[25]

Etobicoke Creek forms part of the eastern border of Mississauga with the city of Toronto. North of there it passes through the western limits of Pearson Airport. There have been two aviation accidents, in 1978 and 2005 where aircraft overshot the runway and slid into the Etobicoke creek banks. In 1954, heavy flooding resulted in some homes along the riverbank being swept into the lake after heavy rains from Hurricane Hazel. Since that storm, houses are no longer constructed along the floodplain. The creek and its tributaries are administered by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA).[26]

Most land in Mississauga drains to either of the two main river systems, with the exception of the smaller Mary Fix and Cooksville Creeks which run roughly through the centre of Mississauga entering the lake near Port Credit. Some small streams and reservoirs are part of the Sixteen Mile Creek system in the far north-west corner of the city, but these drain toward the lake in neighbouring Milton and Oakville.

The shoreline of former Glacial Lake Iroquois roughly follows the Dundas Street alignment, although it is not noticeable in some places but is more prominent in others, such as the site of the former brickyard (Shoreline Dr. near Mavis Rd.), the ancient shoreline promenteau affords a clear view of downtown Toronto and Lake Ontario on clear days. The land in Mississauga in ranges from a maximum elevation of 214 m (699 ft) ASL in the far western corner, near the Hwy. 407/401 junction, to a minimum elevation at the Lake Ontario shore of 76 m (249 ft) ASL.

Apart from the embankments of Credit River valley, it tributaries and the Iroquois shoreline, the only noticeable hills in Mississauga are actually part of the former Britannia Landfill, now a golf course on Terry Fox Way.

Neighbourhoods/areas

There are 22 neighbourhoods in Mississauga:[27]

  • Applewood
  • Central Erin Mills
  • Churchill Meadows
  • Credit Valley
  • Clarkson/Lorne Park
  • Cooksville
  • East Credit
  • Erin Mills
  • Erindale
  • Fairview
  • Hurontario
  • Lakeview
  • Lisgar
  • Malton
  • Meadowvale
  • Meadowvale Village
  • Mineola
  • Mississauga Valleys
  • Port Credit
  • Rathwood
  • Sheridan
  • Streetsville

Climate

Mississauga's climate is similar to that of Toronto and is considered to be moderate,[28] located in plant hardiness zone 6b.[29] Under the Köppen climate classification, Mississauga has a humid continental climate (Dfa/Dfb).[30] Summers can bring periods of high temperatures accompanied with high humidity.[28] While the average daily high temperature in July and August is 27 °C (80.6 °F), temperatures can rise above 32 °C (89.6 °F). In an average summer, there are an average of 15.8 days where the temperature rises above 30 °C (86.0 °F).[31] Winters can be cold with temperatures that are frequently below freezing.[28] In January and February, the mean temperature is −6 °C (21.2 °F) although it is common for temperatures to fall to −15 °C (5.0 °F).[28] In an average winter, there are an average of 3.9 days on which the temperature falls below −20 °C (−4.0 °F).[31] Occasionally, there can be brief periods of warmer weather during the winter season.[28] Compared to the rest of Canada and Ontario, the amount of snowfall received during the season is relatively low.[28] On average, Mississauga receives 108.5 centimetres (42.7 in) of snow per year and there are 44.4 days with measurable snowfall.[31] The climate of Mississauga is officially represented by Pearson International Airport but because of its topography and large surface area conditions can differ depending on location: fog tends to be more common along the lakeshore and in the Credit River Valley at certain times of year, particularly during the spring and autumn.

During snowfalls when temperatures hover close to freezing, northern parts of the city, such as around Derry Road, including Pearson Airport away from warmer Lake Ontario usually get more snow that sticks to the ground because of the lower temperatures. The reverse occurs when a strong storm approaches from the south kicking up lake effect snow, bringing higher snowfall totals to south Mississauga. The city usually experiences at least six months of snow-free weather; however, there is the odd occurrence where snow does fall either in October or May, none which sticks to the ground. The Port Credit and Lakeview areas have a micro-climate more affected by the proximity of the open lake, warming winter temperatures as a result but it can be sharply cooler on spring and summer afternoons, this can also be the case in Clarkson, but with much less consistency.

Most thunderstorms are not severe but can occasionally bring violent winds. The last known tornado to cause significant damage touched down on 7 July 1985, when an F1-rated tornado struck an industrial park in the Meadowvale area (Argentia Road), heavily damaging some buildings and some parked tractor trailers. A relatively strong tornado tore a path across Mississauga (then part of Toronto Township) on 24 June 1923, cutting a swath from present-day Meadowvale to near Cooksville, killing four people and causing massive property damage in a time when most of Mississauga was still rural farmland dotted with fruit orchards.[32][33][34]

Demographics
Historical populations
YearPop.±%
1971172,352—    
1976250,017+45.1%
1981315,055+26.0%
1986374,005+18.7%
1991463,388+23.9%
1996544,382+17.5%
2001612,925+12.6%
2006668,549+9.1%
2011713,443+6.7%
2016721,599+1.1%
Canada 2016 CensusPopulation%
Ethnicity groupWhite302,37542.3
South Asian165,76523.2
Chinese54,0907.6
Black47,0056.6
Filipino36,5705.1
Arab36,2005.1
Latin American16,1102.3
Southeast Asian14,795 2.1
Multiple visible minority13,3701.9
Other visible minority9,0501.3
West Asian7,9101.1
Korean6,0950.9
Aboriginal4,1750.6
Japanese1,9650.3
Total population715,475100.0

Mississauga is a fast-growing and increasingly multicultural city. The Regional Municipality of Peel estimates that as of 2016, the city of Mississauga had a population of 756,000,[39] based on the Canada 2006 Census which as of the Canada 2016 Census. Mississauga is now the third most populous city on the Great Lakes; far smaller than Chicago and Toronto, but recently surpassing the cities proper of Detroit, Milwaukee, and Cleveland.[40]

Canada 2016 CensusPopulation%
Ethnic originEast Indian110,22015.4
Canadian73,02010.2
English66,2509.3
Chinese64,965 9.1
Irish49,1156.9
Scottish47,8956.7
Italian44,840 6.3
Polish43,350 6.1
Filipino39,755 5.6
Pakistani35,660 5.0
Portuguese34,035 4.8
German26,3053.7
French23,8953.3
Jamaican 23,820 3.3
Total population715,475100.0

About 52% of the population speaks a language other than English,[41] and 52.4% of the population are members of a visible minority (non-white or non-aboriginal). 18% of the population is under 14 years of age, compared to those of retirement age; 8.51%. The median (middle) age in Mississauga is 35.0.[42]

Christianity is the majority faith of the city. The 2011 census indicated that 59.9% of the population are adherents, with Catholics constituting 36.9%, while the remaining 23.0% belong to various Protestant, Orthodox Christian, and other Christian groups. Other practiced faiths were Islam (11.9%), Hinduism (7.0%) Sikhism (3.4%), Buddhism (2.2%), and Judaism (0.3%). Those who claimed no religious affiliation made up 14.9% of the population.[43]

Religions in Mississauga
Religion Percent
Christianity
 
 59.9%
Other/None
 
 14.9%
Islam
 
 11.9%
Hinduism
 
 7.0%
Sikhism
 
 3.4%
Distribution of religions throughout Mississauga

Languages

The 2011 census found that English was spoken as single mother tongue by 47.6% of the population. The next most common languages were Urdu (4.9%), Polish (4.1%), Punjabi (3.2%), Arabic (3.1%), Tagalog (2.8%), and Portuguese (2.5%).[44]

Mother tongue Population Percentage
English 338,280 47.6%
French 7,400 1.0%
Urdu 34,925 4.9%
Polish 29,065 4.1%
Punjabi 22,880 3.2%
Arabic 21,990 3.1%
Tagalog (Filipino) 19,920 2.8%
Portuguese 17,685 2.5%
Spanish 15,885 2.2%
Chinese, not otherwise specified 15,745 2.2%
Italian 14,210 2.0%
Cantonese 11,925 1.7%
Mandarin 11,335 1.6%
Tamil 10,230 1.4%
Vietnamese 9,835 1.4%
Hindi 9,250 1.3%
Gujarati 8,010 1.1%
Ukrainian 5,955 0.8%
Croatian 5,500 0.8%
Korean 5,300 0.7%
Mother tongue Population Percentage
Persian (Farsi) 5,245 0.7%
Russian 4,645 0.7%
Serbian 3,830 0.5%
German 3,705 0.5%
Bengali 3,305 0.5%
Romanian 3,075 0.4%
Greek 2,700 0.4%
Albanian 2,215 0.3%
Malayalam 2,145 0.3%
Hungarian 1,870 0.3%
Telugu 1,515 0.2%
Sinhala 1,310 0.2%
Macedonian 1,255 0.2%
Turkish 1,225 0.2%
Bosnian 1,130 0.2%
Bulgarian 1,120 0.2%
Malay 1,090 0.2%
Marathi 1,065 0.1%
Pashto 1,010 0.1%
Sindhi 1,000 0.1%

Economy

Over 60 of the Fortune 500 companies base their global or Canadian head offices in Mississauga. Some of the strongest industries are pharmaceuticals, banking and finance, electronics and computers, aerospace, transportation parts and equipment industries.[45]

TD Bank also has Corporate IT development centres in the city along with Royal Bank of Canada. Laura Secord Chocolates is headquartered in the city, and Hewlett Packard's main Canada offices are also in Mississauga.[46] Air Georgian, a regional airline, is headquartered in Mississauga as well.[47] Regional airline Jazz operates a regional office in Mississauga and Kam Air has its North American office in Mississauga.[48][49] Mississauga is also an aircraft development hub with Canadian headquarters of Aerospace companies such as Magellan Aerospace and Honeywell Aerospace.[50] In addition Walmart Canada, Kellogg's Canada and Panasonic Canada have their national head offices in the city.[51][52]

Arts and culture

Mississauga has a vibrant arts community, promoted by the Mississauga Arts Council, which holds an annual awards ceremony, called the MARTYs, to celebrate the city's entertainers, artists, filmmakers, writers, and musicians.[53]

Mississauga's largest festivities such as Canada Day Celebration, Mississauga Rotary Ribfest, Tree Lighting Ceremony, and New Year's Eve Bash generally occur in Celebration Square. The Canada Day celebration was attended by 130,000 people in 2012, the Ribfest has recorded 120,000 visitors in 2012, and the inaugural New Year's Eve in 2011 has attracted 30,000 spectators.[54][55]

One of the most anticipated events in the city is Carassauga, a festival of cultures that occurs annually during mid-May. It is the second largest cultural festival in Canada. During 2013, 4014 performances took place and 300,000 people attended.[56] Carassauga attempts to display the different cultures around the world by setting up pavilions for countries around Mississauga. Visitors get free public transportation with their ticket to tour the city and explore the different pavilions. Various countries showcase their culture through food stalls, dance performances and small vendors. The event largely takes place in the Hershey Centre.

There are also culture-specific festivals held in Celebration Square, including Fiesta Ng Kalayaan for the Philippines, Viet Summerfest for Vietnam, Muslimfest for the city's Muslim community, Indian festival Diwali and Mosaic Festival, which is the largest South Asian multi-disciplinary arts festival in North America.[57]

The village of Streetsville holds its annual Bread and Honey Festival every first weekend of June at Streetsville Memorial Park to commemorate the founding of the village of Streetsville. The festival has been incorporated in 1974, in response to amalgamation with the city of Mississauga.[58] Activities include the Bread and Honey Race, which raises money for charities and local hospitals.[59] It also has its own annual Canada Day celebrations, which are also held at Streetsville Memorial Park.

Another former town, Port Credit, Ontario holds multiple festivals throughout the year. During the summer, there are street performances on multiple venues scattered throughout the former town during Buskerfest. The town alsoholds a grand parade named "Paint the Town Red" during Canada Day. Finally, during August, the town holds the Mississauga Waterfront Festival, which includes concerts as well as family activities. During September, the Tim Hortons Southside Shuffle is being held to celebrate the town's Blues and Jazz Festival, which includes musical performances from local blues and jazz artists.[60][61][62]

The community of Malton, which contains a significant number of Sikhs, holds its annual Khalsa Day parade, marching between Sri Guru Singh Sabha (Malton Gurdwara) and Sikh Spiritual Centre (Rexdale Gurdwara Sahib) in Toronto. This parade is attended by 100,000 people. [63]

Mississauga has a significant number of Jews, with active community classes, cultural activities and holiday celebrations.[64][65][66][67]

Attractions

Mississauga Celebration Square

In 2006, with the help of Project for Public Spaces,[68] the city started hosting "My Mississauga" summer festivities at its Civic Square.[69] Mississauga planned over 60 free events to bring more people to the city square. The square was transformed and included a movable stage, a snack bar, extra seating, and sports and gaming facilities (basketball nets, hockey arena, chess and checker boards) including a skate park. Some of the events included Senior's day on Tuesday, Family day on Wednesday, Vintage car Thursdays, with the main events being the Canada Day celebration, Rotary Ribfest, Tree Lighting Ceremony, and Beachfest.

Civic Square has completed its restructuring project using federal stimulus money, which features a permanent stage, a larger ice rink (which also serves as a fountain and wading pool during the summer season), media screens, and a permanent restaurant. It officially reopened at 22 June 2011 and has since been renamed as Mississauga Celebration Square. More events have been added such as holding free outdoor live concerts, and live telecast of UEFA European Football Championship. The square also holds weekly programming such as fitness classes, amphitheatre performances and movie nights during the summer, children's activities during spring and fall, and skate parties during the winter. The opening of the square has also allowed the city to hold its first annual New Year's Eve celebration in 2011.

The upper and lower parts of the square used to be separated by a segment of City Centre Drive. However, pedestrian safety issues and commitment to building a vibrant downtown led the city council to permanently close this segment, uniting the upper and lower parts of the square.[70]

In October 2012, the square had attracted its one millionth visitor.[71]

For the NBA playoffs, with the Toronto Raptors playing in them, Celebration Square is transformed into Jurassic Park West, complementing the downtown Toronto Jurassic Park.[72][73]

Mississauga Civic Centre

The Art Gallery of Mississauga (AGM) is a public, not-for-profit art gallery located in the Mississauga Civic Centre right on Celebration Square across from the Living Arts Centre and Square One Shopping Centre. AGM is sponsored by the City of Mississauga, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Ontario Arts Council. The art gallery offers free admission and tours and is open everyday. AGM has over 500 copies and is working on creating a digital gallery led by gallery assistant Aaron Guravich.[74][75]

Shopping

Mississauga also boasts one of the largest shopping malls in Canada called Square One Shopping Centre, located at the City Centre. It has 350+ retail stores and services and attracts 24 million annual visits[76] and over $1 billion in annual retail sales.[77] It operates on most holidays (the exceptions being Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Christmas Day), making it the only shopping mall in the city and one of the few in the Greater Toronto Area that do so.[78] The mall is surrounded by several bars and restaurants, as well as the City Hall, the Central Library, and Playdium.

Erin Mills Town Centre, the second largest mall in Mississauga. It is located at the western edge of the city, near Eglinton Avenue at Erin Mills Parkway.[79] The mall used to be notable by a clock tower placed in the centre of the building. As its successor, the clock has been replaced with an iconic glass sphere (283 feet in circumference), as a part of the mall's $100 million redevelopment project.[80] The mall also used to have a movie theatre, a mini-golf course, and a daycare centre, all of which were converted to retail space.[81]

The 401 Dixie Automall is a new concept in car shopping and car ownership, in which dozens of car dealerships are grouped in a general vicinity for convenience and ease of sales. The "mall", which is actually a set of separate car dealerships around the Dixie Road, 401 intersection, allows vehicle test driving and often showcases high end cars, attracting car enthusiasts from around the GTA.[82]

Located at the southeastern corner of the city is the Dixie Outlet Mall, which is Canada's largest enclosed outlet mall. It opened in 1956, making it Mississauga's first shopping mall, even though the city at that time was still known as Toronto Township, Ontario. Many factory outlets of premium brands are located in this mall.[83] As a supporter of Bullfrog Power, it operates using 100% renewable energy.[84] Heartland Town Centre is an unenclosed outlet mall with 180 stores and restaurants.[85] A flea market, the Fantastic Flea Market, is Mississauga's oldest flea market, which opened in 1976.

Erin Mills Town Centre and Dixie Outlet Mall are both closed for most holidays, except for Civic Holiday.[86]

Sports and recreation

Mississauga's Paramount Fine Foods Centre (formerly the Hershey Centre) is the city's main sports venue. It is the home arena for Mississauga's junior league teams, the Raptors 905 of the NBA G League and the Mississauga Steelheads of the Ontario Hockey League. The arena was originally built for Mississauga's first OHL team, the Mississauga Icedogs, before they moved to St. Catharines and became the Niagara IceDogs. The Steelheads are the rebranded Mississauga St. Michael's Majors who had moved from Toronto in 2007. The arena was formerly the home of the Mississauga MetroStars of the MASL. It formerly was the home arena for the Mississauga Power of the National Basketball League of Canada before the team dissolved in 2015 after the announcement of the Raptors 905. In 2018, Mississauga's City Council approved a motion to study the feasibility and business case for construction of a new stadium in Mississauga with the hope of gaining a new CPL Team.

Paramount Fine Foods Centre hosting an NBA Development League between the Charge Canton and Raptors 905

Other hockey teams in Mississauga include the Mississauga Chiefs of the Canadian Women's Hockey League (who play at Iceland Mississauga), the Mississauga Chargers of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League (who play at Port Credit Arena), and the many teams in the Greater Toronto Hockey League, Mississauga Hockey League, and Mississauga Girls Hockey League that play in the city's 13 arenas. In addition, there is a roller hockey team, the Mississauga Rattlers of the Great Lakes Inline Junior "A" Roller Hockey League Mississauga also has teams for box lacrosse (Mississauga Tomahawks of the OLA Junior A Lacrosse League), cricket (Mississauga Ramblers of the Toronto and District Cricket League, Mississauga Titans of the Etobicoke District Cricket League), and Canadian football. The Mississauga Football League (MFL) is a youth football program that is for players aged 7–17, founded in 1971. The city also has other amateur football teams in Ontario leagues: the Mississauga Warriors of the Ontario Varsity Football League and the Mississauga Demons of the Ontario Australian Football League. Mississauga's rugby players are now served by the Mississauga Blues[87] through u7 - u17 Youth And Junior Programs as well as hosting one or more Senior Men's and Senior Women's Teams.

Ringette is one of the affiliated youth groups that are allocated ice time by the City of Mississauga (Recreation and Parks Division, Community Services Department) on an allocated priority basis.[88] The Ringette program is administered by the Mississauga Ringette Association.

Recreational clubs include the Mississauga Figure Skating Club, Mississauga Synchronized Swimming Association,[89] Mississauga Canoe Club, Mississauga Scrabble Club,[90] Don Rowing Club at Port Credit, International Soccer Club Mississauga,[91] and the Mississauga Aquatic Club. There are over 481 parks and woodlands areas in Mississauga, with nearly 100 km of trails that users can traverse.[92] Mississauga is home to many indoor playgrounds including Playdium, Kids Time Family Fun Centre, KidSports indoor playground, and Laser Quest Centre. There are over 26 major indoor playgrounds in the city of Mississauga.[93]

Government

Mississauga City Council consists of the mayor and eleven city councillors, each representing one of the city's eleven numbered wards. The former mayor, Hazel McCallion, at one time the longest-serving mayor in Canada, was succeeded by Bonnie Crombie in November 2014.[94]

Wards and councillors

Council elected in the 2018 municipal election:[95]

Councillor Ward Notes
Bonnie CrombieMayor
Stephen DaskoWard 1 (Port Credit, Lakeview)
Karen RasWard 2 (Clarkson, Lorne Park)
Chris FonsecaWard 3 (Rathwood, Applewood)
John KovacWard 4 (City Centre)
Carolyn ParrishWard 5 (Britannia Woods, Malton)
Ron StarrWard 6 (Erindale)
Dipika DamerlaWard 7 (Cooksville)
Matt MahoneyWard 8 (Erin Mills)
Pat SaitoWard 9 (Meadowvale)
Sue McFaddenWard 10 (Lisgar, Churchill Meadows)
George CarlsonWard 11 (Streetsville)

The City of Mississauga has had only four mayors in its history. Martin Dobkin was the city's first mayor in 1974. He was then followed by Ron A. Searle. Searle was defeated in 1978 by then-city councillor and former mayor of Streetsville, McCallion. McCallion won 12 consecutive terms as mayor, but she chose to retire prior to the November 2014 election, and was succeeded by Bonnie Crombie, who won the election.

McCallion is regarded as a force in provincial politics and often referred to as Hurricane Hazel, comparing her political force to the devastating 1954 storm that struck the Toronto area. McCallion won or was acclaimed in every mayoral election from 1978 to 2010, in some later elections without even campaigning. In October 2010, McCallion won her twelfth term in office with over 76% of the votes. McCallion was the nation's longest-serving mayor and was runner-up in World Mayor 2005.[96] In 2014 McCallion did not run again, but endorsed Crombie, the eventual winner who became mayor in November 2014.[94]

Provincial electoral districts
  • Mississauga—Malton (provincial electoral district)
  • Mississauga—Brampton South (provincial electoral district)
  • Mississauga East—Cooksville (provincial electoral district)
  • Mississauga—Erindale (provincial electoral district)
  • Mississauga South (provincial electoral district)
  • Mississauga—Streetsville (provincial electoral district)

Federal electoral districts
  • Mississauga Centre
  • Mississauga East—Cooksville
  • Mississauga—Erin Mills
  • Mississauga-Lakeshore
  • Mississauga—Malton
  • Mississauga—Streetsville

Infrastructure

Transportation

Rail

Mississauga is on three major railway lines (one each owned by the Canadian National Railway, the Canadian Pacific Railway, and Metrolinx). Toronto–Sarnia Via Rail trains on the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor pass through Mississauga and make request stops at Malton GO Station in the northeast of the city. Other Via Rail services stop in the neighbouring cities of Brampton, Oakville, and Toronto.

Public transit
Commuter rail

Commuter rail service is provided by GO Transit, a division of Metrolinx, on the Lakeshore West, Kitchener, and Milton lines. All-day service is provided along the Lakeshore West line, while the Kitchener and Milton lines serve commuters going to and from Toronto's Union Station during rush hours.

Bus

The city's public transit service, MiWay (formerly Mississauga Transit), provides bus service along more than 90 routes across the city, and connects to commuter rail with GO Transit as well as with Brampton Transit, Oakville Transit, and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC). MiWay operates routes for both local service (branded as "MiLocal") and limited-stop service (branded as "MiExpress").

Intercity buses operated by GO Transit stop at GO Train stations throughout the city and the Square One Bus Terminal.

Mississauga Transitway

A 12-station busway similar to Ottawa's Transitway was built parallel to Highway 403 from Winston Churchill Boulevard to Renforth Avenue, via the Mississauga City Centre Transit Terminal.[97] Opened in stages, the Mississauga Transitway was completed on 22 November 2017 with the opening of the final station: Renforth. The service also connects to Kipling Subway Station in Toronto, via mixed lane traffic after Renforth station.[98]

Hurontario LRT

There are plans for the construction of an LRT line along Hurontario Street stretching from Port Credit to southern Brampton, and possibly to Brampton's downtown. The project went through the Transit Project Assessment Process (TPAP) which includes environmental assessment. The line will be fully funded by the provincial government, with construction set to begin in 2018. Rapid transit lines could possibly be built on some other main thoroughfares, namely Dundas Street and Lakeshore Road, but no definite dates have been set.[99]

Line 5 Eglinton

In addition to the 19km light rail line, there are plans to extend Line 5 Eglinton to Renforth Gateway and Toronto Pearson International Airport though eastern Mississauga by 2030-2031 bringing the Toronto Subway into Mississauga. There will be 4 stops in the city at Renforth Gateway, Convair, Silver Dart, and Pearson Airport. [100]

Highways
Highway 403 in Mississauga, showing HOV lanes adjacent to the median

Highway 401 (or the Macdonald-Cartier Freeway, connecting Windsor to the Quebec border) passes through the city's north end. The eastern part uses the collector/express lane system and feeds into Highway 403, the main freeway in the city, which runs through the City Centre and Erin Mills areas. The Queen Elizabeth Way, the city's first freeway, runs through the southern half of the city. These three freeways each run east–west, with the exception of the 403 from the 401 to Cawthra Road, and from the 407 to QEW. North of the 401, the collector lanes of the 403 become Highway 410, which goes to Brampton. Part of Highway 409 is within the city of Mississauga, and it provides access to Pearson Airport. Two other freeways run along or close to Mississauga's municipal borders. Highway 407 runs metres from the northern city limits in a power transmission corridor and forms the city's boundary with Milton between highways 401 and 403. Highway 427 forms the Toronto-Mississauga boundary in the northeast, and is always within 2 kilometres of the boundary further south, with the exception of the area around Centennial Park.

Air
Most of Pearson International Airport is located within Mississauga. The skyline can be seen in the background.

Lester B. Pearson International Airport (YYZ), operated by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority in the northeastern part of the city, is the largest and busiest airport in Canada. In 2015, it handled 41,036,847 passengers and 443,958 aircraft movements.[101] It is a major North American global gateway, handling more international passengers than any airport in North America other than John F. Kennedy International Airport. Pearson is the main hub for Air Canada, and a hub for passenger airline WestJet and cargo airline FedEx Express. It is served by over 75 airlines having over 180 destinations.[102]

Bicycle

In 2010, the City of Mississauga approved a Cycling Master Plan outlining a strategy to develop over 900 kilometres (560 miles) of on and off-road cycling routes in the city over the next 20 years. Over 1,000 Mississauga citizens and stakeholders contributed their thoughts and ideas to help develop this plan. The plan focuses on fostering cycling as a way of life in the city, building an integrated network of cycling routes and aims to adopt a safety first approach to cycling.[103]

Emergency services

Peel Regional Police provide policing within the city of Mississauga and airport. In addition, the Ontario Provincial Police have a Port Credit detachment in the city for patrolling provincial highways. Mississauga Fire and Emergency Services provide fire fighting services and Peel Regional Paramedic Services provides emergency medical services. Toronto Pearson also has its own fire department with 2 halls that service calls within the airport grounds.

Healthcare

The city's two main hospitals—Credit Valley Hospital and Mississauga Hospital—were amalgamated into the Trillium Health Partners hospital group in December 2011. The health system and the administration for students in Mississauga was the property of the Peel District School Board Health Centre[104] and the health support for citizens in Mississauga was the property of Peel Health Centre.[105] The eastern part of Mississauga was the property of Pearson Health (Greater Toronto Area Health Department).[106]

Library

The Mississauga Library System is a municipally owned network of 18 libraries.

Education
Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre at U of T Mississauga

Mississauga is the home to the University of Toronto Mississauga, one of three campuses of the University of Toronto. UTM has an enrollment of approximately 13,200 students. It is growing at a rate of about 1,000 students per year since 2002, following a major expansion. U of T Mississauga has 15 academic departments, 143 programs and 87 areas of study, and includes Institutes for Management and Innovation, and Communication, Culture, Information and Technology. The Mississauga Academy of Medicine is located on campus in the Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex. The campus employs over 2,000 full- and part-time employees (including 800 permanent faculty and staff), and has more than 47,000 alumni, including astronaut Dr. Roberta Bondar, filmmaker Richie Mehta, actor Zaib Shaikh and writer/poet Dionne Brand. The $35-million Innovation Complex, which opened in September 2014, houses the Institute for Management and Innovation, a new model for business education combining management studies with key industry sectors, and the first phase of the multi-phase North Building reconstruction, known as Deerfield Hall, opened in September 2014.

Sheridan College Business education facility in downtown Mississauga

Sheridan College opened a new $46 million facility in Mississauga in 2011. The school has two main concentrations: business education, and programs to accelerate the movement of new Canadians into the workforce. The 150,000 sq ft (14,000 m2) campus will be located on an 8.5-acre (34,000 m2) parcel of land in City Centre just north of the Living Arts Centre. The campus accommodated 1,700 students upon completion of phase one of construction in Fall 2011. Phase two of construction after 2011 increased capacity by 3,740 students to a combined total of 5,000; it also included construction of a 10-level municipal parking garage.[107][108][109][110]

Mississauga is served by the Peel District School Board, which operates the secular Anglophone public schools, the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board, which operates Catholic Anglophone public schools, the Conseil scolaire Viamonde, which operates secular Francophone schools, and the Conseil scolaire de district catholique Centre-Sud, which operates Catholic Francophone schools. Within the city, the four boards run a total of more than 150 schools.

Multiple schools in Mississauga also offer specialized programs:

  • French immersion schools in multiple locations across the city such as Applewood Heights Secondary School, Clarkson Secondary School and Streetsville Secondary School
  • Extended French Program at St. Thomas More School, Lorne Park Secondary School, Philip Pocock Catholic Secondary School and St. Aloysius Gonzaga Secondary School
  • Regional Arts Program at Queen Elizabeth Senior Public School, Cawthra Park Secondary School and Iona Catholic Secondary School
  • International Business and Technology Program at Allan A. Martin Senior Public School and Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School
  • International Baccalaureate Program at St. Francis Xavier Secondary School, Glenforest Secondary School, Bronte College and Erindale Secondary School.
  • Sci Tech Program at Tomken Road Middle School and Port Credit Secondary School
  • Regional Enhanced Program at Glenforest Secondary School, The Woodlands School and Lorne Park Secondary School.
  • Regional Sports Program at Applewood Heights Secondary School[111]
  • International and Executive Leadership Academy at TL Kennedy Secondary School

Media

Mississauga is part of the Toronto media market and is served by media based in Toronto, with markets in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) that cover most of the news in the GTA. Examples of this being the majority of radio stations transmitting from the nearby CN Tower in Toronto. However, Mississauga also has The Mississauga News, a regional newspaper that is published two days a week in print and daily online.[112] There is also the Sunday Times, a community newspaper for the South Asian community that is published weekly in print and also available online, as well as Modern Mississauga, a bi-monthly general interest print and digital magazine.[113]

The city also has three local radio stations:

  • AM 960 CKNT, local news/talk radio
  • AM 1650 CINA, multicultural station mainly targeted to Indian and Pakistani audiences.
  • FM 91.9 CFRE, the campus radio station of the University of Toronto Mississauga.

The following national cable television stations also broadcast from Mississauga.

  • Rogers Television, community channel
  • The Shopping Channel, broadcasts nationally from Mississauga
  • The Weather Network, broadcast nationally from Mississauga 1998–2005
  • Bite TV, Canada's first interactive television station.

Sister cities

Mississauga has one sister city:

Notable people

See also
  • List of tallest buildings in Mississauga
  • List of cities in Ontario
  • List of tallest buildings in Ontario
  • Greater Toronto Area
  • Regional Municipality of Peel

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