Cooksville, Mississauga

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Cooksville
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Aerial view of Cooksville
Cooksville, Mississauga
Country Canada
Province Ontario
Regional Municipality Peel
City Mississauga
First settled1807 (1807)
Present name1836
Named for Jacob Cook
Population
 (2016) [1]
  Total36,000
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern Time Zone)
  Summer (DST) UTC-4 (Eastern Time Zone)
Postal code FSA
Area codes 905, 289, and 365
The illuminated Cooksville sign at the intersection of Dundas and Hurontario Streets Cooksville sign..jpg
The illuminated Cooksville sign at the intersection of Dundas and Hurontario Streets
At the original corners of the settlement, Dundas Street and Hurontario Street, looking south-east (the McClelland-Copeland building seen in the left of the image) Cooksville Ontario.jpg
At the original corners of the settlement, Dundas Street and Hurontario Street, looking south-east (the McClelland-Copeland building seen in the left of the image)

Cooksville is a neighbourhood in Mississauga in the Greater Toronto Area region of Ontario, Canada. [2] It is centred around the intersection of Dundas Street and Hurontario Street near the eponymous Cooksville Creek.

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History

Cooksville was originally located in Toronto Township, and was an important stagecoach stop along the Dundas highway,[ citation needed ] which was carved out of the wilderness after a survey by Asa Danforth Jr. in 1798.[ citation needed ]

The settlement was originally named Harrisville in honour of Daniel Harris, Cooksville's first settler, who immigrated from the United States in 1807. Later in 1836, the settlement was renamed to the present name Cooksville after Jacob Cook. [3]

The entrepreneur, Jacob Cook, won the contract to deliver mail from York to Niagara, operated several stage coach lines, was the local magistrate and built the Cooksville House, the first licensed tavern in the area at the northwest corner of Dundas and Hurontario streets in 1829. [4] 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] A severe tornado hit the area on June 24, 1923, destroying mostly rural farmhouses around the town. On the west side of the town there was a 182 acre brickyard that sprawled south of the CP rail line from 1912 until its closure in 1995, employing many Cooksville residents over that period. The Italian Heavyweight champion boxer, Primo Carnera had worked at the yard for a short period during his youth.[ citation needed ] Today, the redeveloped site is a medium density residential and retail zone along Shoreline Dr., just south of the infamous 1979 Mississauga train derailment site at the CP crossing (Mavis Road).

Cooksville was the residence of HIH Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia while in exile in Canada.

Although never incorporated and not being the city's largest historic community, its central crossroads location meant much of the early suburban growth in Mississauga (Toronto Township before 1967) [6] occurred in the area around Cooksville. For much of that time it had the highest concentration of high-rise condominium and rental buildings in Mississauga, and was originally proposed to be the location of Mississauga's city centre. However, lobbying by prominent developer Bruce McLaughlin to build a new municipal office after a fire in 1969 badly damaged the original township hall and the opening of Square One Shopping Centre to the north, resulted in the city centre overtaking it in density.

Transportation

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Cooksville GO Station

Cooksville is a main transportation hub in Mississauga, with GO Transit rail, and bus service; and express city buses to Toronto's Union Station. Cooksville GO Station is just north of the intersection of Dundas and Hurontario Streets.

Dundas Street, a four-lane street; and Hurontario Street, a six-lane street, are the main thoroughfares in Cooksville, and intersect at the heart of the neighbourhood. This intersection was the junction of former provincial Highway 5 and Highway 10, and is still often referred to by Mississaugans as "Five and Ten" in reference to those street's previous provincial highway numbers; Highway 5 for Dundas and Highway 10 for Hurontario.

Demographics

According to the Canada 2016 Census [lower-alpha 1] [7]
Ethnic Groups
EthnicityPopulationPercentage
Total33,200100
White16,70550.3
South Asian6,38019.2
Filipino2,0056.0
Black1,7355.2
Chinese1,4054.2
Arab1,3053.9
Southeast Asian8202.4
Latin American8042.4
West Asian6151.8
Korean3351.0
Japanese550.1
Not Included Elsewhere4301.2
Multiple5701.7

There is a plethora of South Asian and Arab textile/clothing shops, restaurants, and grocery stores in the area. There is also a significant number of Afro-Caribbean take-out restaurants and barber shops; the area is known to cater towards Mississauga's black community because of the large number of barber shops in close proximity to one another. Nevertheless, the area is multicultural and most cultures are represented in the area.

The census tracts for the area, include three separate neighbourhood designations by the City of Mississauga: Cooksville NHD (Neighbourhood), DT Cooksville (Downtown) and DT Hospital (site of the large Mississauga Hospital). The area in the southwest part of Cooksville, closer to the Credit River, is a more exclusive enclave of mostly large, detached homes on larger, treed lots; is referred to as Gordon Woods. Fairview is sometimes considered to be part of Cooksville, but is actually the neighbourhood located north of the CP rail line/Cooksville GO Station. [8]

Notes

  1. The figures were calculated using Cooksville NHD (East), Cooksville NHD (West), and DT Cooksville.

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