Mississauga

The Canadian city of Mississauga, once known as Toronto Township, is located in the province of Ontario. It is located in the Regional Municipality of Peel on the shores of Lake Ontario, abutting Toronto to the east. As of 2021, Mississauga had a population of 717,961, making it the third-most populous municipality in Ontario and the second-most in the Greater Toronto Area (after Toronto itself).

Mississauga's expansion was ascribed to Toronto's close vicinity. The city gained a multicultural population in the second half of the 20th century and developed a flourishing central business sector. The busiest airport in Canada, Toronto Pearson International Airport, is located in Malton, a neighborhood of the city that also houses the corporate headquarters of numerous domestic and international businesses. Mississauga is not a traditional city; rather, it is a synthesis of three former villages, two townships, and a number of rural hamlets (a general pattern shared by several suburban GTA cities), all of which had sizable populations prior to the city's incorporation but none of which was unambiguously dominant, and which later came together to form a single urban area.

Mississauga is located on the historic territory of the Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee, and Anishinaabeg people, including the eponymous Mississaugas, and has been inhabited by indigenous people for thousands of years. The majority of modern-day Mississauga was first established in 1805 as Toronto Township inside York County, and it later joined Peel County when new counties were created in 1851 by dividing up the original county. When Peel was reorganized into a regional municipality in 1974, Mississauga itself was reincorporated as a city. It had originally been founded in 1968 as a town.

Population: 717,961