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It is Canada's largest enclosed outlet mall. It opened in 1956 when the city was still known as Toronto Township, and is Mississauga's first shopping mall. Many factory outlets of premium brands are located in this mall. [97] Heartland Town Centre is an unenclosed power centre with 180 stores and restaurants. [98]
A relatively strong tornado tore a path across Toronto Township (the precursor municipality to Mississauga) on June 24, 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 the area was still rural farmland dotted with fruit orchards. [citation needed]
Mississauga is not traditional city, but is a mostly suburban municipality created from the predominantly-rural Toronto Township, which was restructured into the Town of Mississauga in 1968. The present city was established by amalgamating the new town with the historic independent towns of Port Credit and Streetsville in 1974.
A map of Toronto's Census Metropolitan Area, which contains a large portion of the GTA Toronto is the central city of the Greater Toronto Area. Mississauga is the largest city in Peel Region and the second-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area. Brampton, also in Peel Region, is the third-largest city in the Greater Toronto Area.
Map of Townships in Ontario South of the French River c. 1950 - 1960. ... Laurier Geographic Township (Parry Sound, Unorganized, ... City of Mississauga;
The area of present day Lisgar was originally in Trafalgar Township within Halton County, with the hamlet itself being located on the boundary of Toronto Township (which became the Town of Mississauga east of Winston Churchill in 1968) [5] and Trafalgar Townships and Halton and Peel Counties. [6]
A heritage Mississauga sign on Hurontario Street north of the intersection claims it was the first Canadian location of winemaking in 1836. [4] Cooksville grew in size and influence until the Great Fire of 1852 razed much of it. [4] That year, the McClelland-Copeland General store opened and is now the areas longest surviving building. [5]
Ontario has 200 township municipalities of which 115 are lower-tier municipalities and 85 are single-tier municipalities. A township is a type of municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. They can have either single-tier [clarification needed] status or lower-tier [clarification needed] status.