Modern Mississauga

Tower crane dot the view looking north as high rise buildings near the forth coming LRT stop.

Early March 2024

Just out of frame(purposefully) several young black men were more or less loitering. It made me realise that Cooksville is Ghetto.

The retail wars were bitterly fought. Sheridan Mall department store anchor was first K-Mart. When that chain closed Zellers took over. Then Hudsons Bay Co , the corporate owner decided to exit the low cost store format Target moved in from the USA. They spent several years converting their stores then they were not price competitive and pulled out of Canada writing down huge losses. This is a warehouse today while waiting for the mall to be redeveloped.

The Nine Creek Trail follows an out of service Hydro line from Indian Trail Road to Winston Churchill Blvd. This is the western end next to the Metrolinx GO line.

The Absolute Towers at Hurontario and Burnhamthorpe have come to represent Mississauga.

We are southbound Hurontario at Robert Speck Parkway looking at the Absolute Towers being built. April 2010.

A location on Lakeshore Road just east of Clarkson Village. It was here during the 1960's and 70's that "flyash" from the former Lakeview Generating Station had been dumped. The ash, the residue from coal, was full of toxic material. The park was renamed from Flyash Park to Birchwood.

Birchwood Park sign on Clarkson Road. This park must encircle the northern periphery of the Clarkson Village parallel to the GO Lakeshore West rail line.

Brightwater is a development on the lands that once held the Port Credit Texaco refinery at Lakeshore and Mississauga Roads.

There is a large Chinese population in Mississauga. This is a mall at Creditview and Burnhamthorpe Roads.

A condo development at Clarkson Road at the Metrolinx (former CNR) railway line.

November 2023

November 2023

Looking over the Helipad at the Credit Valley Hospital at the skyscraper condo buildings around Square One. The Absolute Towers no longer dominate.

Sign beside street November 2023

"Old" Derry Road bridge over the Credit River leading into the village of "Old" Meadowvale which was a milling community in Toronto Township. The name "Meadowvale" was borrowed by Markborough Properties for their 1970's started community near Streetsville.

Elizabeth Street near Port Credit GO. This replaces the neighbourhood with the Orange Hall.

Another condo building is being built at the Southdown Road and Lakeshore Road intersection. July 2023