Neighbourhoods of Mississauga

A city assembled from villages

Mississauga was stitched together from older settlements, among them Port Credit, Streetsville, Cooksville, Clarkson, Malton and Erindale, and then filled in with large planned communities from the 1960s onward. The result is a city where a twenty-minute drive crosses eighty years of building practice, and the plumbing changes with it.

South, along the lake

Port Credit, Lorne Park, Clarkson, Mineola and Lakeview hold many postwar houses under tall trees, whose roots seek out clay sewer joints.

The middle of the city

Cooksville, the City Centre, Mississauga Valleys and the Hurontario corridor combine detached houses, townhouse complexes and towers, with light rail now running up the spine.

North and west

Meadowvale, Churchill Meadows, Lisgar, East Credit and Meadowpine are later subdivisions where sump pumps, finished basements and ageing builder fixtures fill most of our notebook.

Over the boundary

We also take calls just beyond the city limits, where Halton, Brampton and Toronto rules apply instead of Peel's.

Reading an entry

Each district page records the era and type of housing, the faults we meet most there, and the services those houses tend to need, so you can compare your own home against its neighbours.

House shapes, too

Neighbourhood tells you the era; the building form tells you the layout. Our house-type casebook covers bungalows, semis, split-levels, townhouses and condo suites, read through their pipes and drains.

Everything in this section