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Mississauga (current population
695,000, with an estimated population of over 710,000 by 2010)
is a city located in the Peel Regional Municipality, west
of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A part of the Greater Toronto
Area, Mississauga is Canada's sixth largest city. It is also
the largest suburban municipality in North America.[1] It
was purchased by the British in 1805 and incorporated as a
city in 1974. Mississauga is a sister city of Kariya, Japan.[2]
With five major highways passing
through the city, Mississauga offers fast and convenient access
to major destinations in Canada and the United States. In
addition, most of Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada's
busiest, is located in the city. Mississauga has doubled in
size in each of the last two decades. Mississauga had the
largest population growth in Canada (89,500) between the census
years of 1986-1991. Another 80,994 were added between 1991-1996;
an increase of 17.5% in the four year period.
Despite its size, Mississauga
is a suburb of Toronto and the two cities' urban sprawls are
indistinguishably linked. As Toronto has continued to grow
economically, Mississauga has followed suit, building predominantly
low-density tract housing and high rise condominiums to attract
individuals tired of city life. At the same time, businesses
saw the benefits of locating to Mississauga - low tax rates,
proximity to a number of transportation routes (air, rail,
road), proximity to Toronto, and an abundance of land (at
least, at the time) - and it soon became desirable to locate
there. The city is debt-free and has not borrowed money since
1978.
While being in the top ten
Canadian cities by population, Mississauga is bereft of cultural
institutions for a community its size due to the proximity
to Toronto. It is the largest city in Canada by far with no
daily newspaper, television stations, or commercial radio
stations. A bedroom city to Toronto in the truest sense, Mississauga
is virtually unknown outside of Ontario.
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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 traders found around
the Credit River area was called the Mississaugas, a tribe
originally from Lake Huron. By 1700 the Mississaugas had driven
away the Iroquois.
In 1805, government officials from York, as
Toronto was then called, bought 340 km² (84,000 acres)
of the Mississauga Tract and in 1806 the area was opened for
settlement. The various communities settled include: Clarkson,
Cooksville, Dixie, Erindale (then Springdale), Port Credit,
Sheridan, and Summerville. This region would become known
as the Toronto Township. [3]
Toronto Township was formed on August 2, 1805
when officials from York (what is now Toronto) purchased 84,000
acres (340 km²) of land from the Mississaugas for 1,000
pounds. After the land was surveyed, much of it was given
by the Crown in the form of land grants to United Empire Loyalists
who emigrated from the US. More than a dozen small communities
grew in this area, most of which were located near natural
resources, waterways for industry and fishing, and routes
leading into York. In 1873, in light of the 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. The Council's responsibilities included road
maintenance, the establishment of a police force, and mail
delivery service.
In 1820, a second purchase was made and additional
settlements established including: Barbertown, Britannia,
Burnhamthorpe, Derry West, Elmbank, Malton, Meadowvale Village,
Mount Charles, and Streetsville. This led to the eventual
displacement of the Mississaugas and, in 1847, they were relocated
to a reserve in the Grand River Valley near present-day Hagersville.
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.
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.
On November 10, 1979, a 106 car freight train
carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals was derailed at
the intersection of Mavis Road and Dundas in Mississauga.
The resulting fire was allowed to burn itself out, but a ruptured
chlorine tank was the main cause for concern. With the possiblity
of a deadly cloud of chlorine gas spreading through suburban
Mississauga, 218,000 people were evacuated. Within a few days
Mississauga was practically a ghost town, later when the mess
had been cleared and the danger neutralized residents were
allowed to return to their homes. 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 modeled their own emergency plans
after Mississauga's. For many years afterwards, the name "Mississauga"
was to Canadians associated with a major rail disaster.
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