"Mississauga: Land on the Move" (1969)

Produced in 1969, "Mississauga: Land on the Move" is a cavalcade of images of the new Town, meant to attract new business to the community.
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00:54 Title sequence
01:10 Aerial photography
01:52 Location and transportation
04:25 Infrastructure (water, sewage, natural gas, etc.)
05:42 Living in Mississauga
07:19 Planning Mississauga
08:51 Near to Toronto
09:17 Recreation in Mississauga
11:06 Businesses in the Town
12:34 "It's worth considering the advantages Mississauga has to offer"

[@brucenicholls213]

All that beautiful farmland gone !😢

[@GoWestYoungMan]

Looks more affluent and prosperous than it does now.

[@captinzoom]

Some of those apartment buildings are still there in 2021.

[@derekhellmann515]

I miss those days when the GTA was less busy and crowded.. A more civil society.

[@HopeLaFleur1975]

Yes that time is gone forever!

[@johnkaminsky1657]

Grew up in Erin Mills "New Town" (1976-2005). Quite a few familiar places in this video that harken back to a much simpler time. Moved well north of the city to escape the hyper-development and traffic.

[@Ferda1964]

Those were the good old days.

[@kobeisalwayscool]

The air just LOOKS cleaner 🙁😲

[@WanukeX]

1:17 - For those unaware, that’s the QEW and Erin Mills Pkw/Southdown Road, It was completely rebuilt in the early 2000s. The name change at the intersection today is the last remaining remnant of the old intersection, because under the old design Erin Mills and Southdown did not used to be directly attached, you had to go around the loop.

[@bskinny9009]

Shipp built all the homes and Orlando Corp was buying up all the farms.

[@elmerartap-oi4im]

my landed is mississauga ontario canada 1995 & i see those couple building at bloor st that's where we grow up...

[@DungeonStudio]

Great promo film! I tried recreating much of this with MS Train Simulator. And have to say Train Sim World has a marvelous interactive depiction just west of Mississauga covering the Oakville/Hamilton area. Hopefully that will increase to cover more in future.

[@GordRobinson-ep7vu]

And now it’s polluted over populated with traffic that’s totally unbearable and we call this progress! It was something wrong with the trains in those pictures, there was no graffiti or tagging on them more progress? I don’t think so! And that’s why I live almost 200 miles away in south western Ontario. I completely avoid Mississauga Brampton, as travelling there is a nightmare. I too miss the old days of Mississauga in Oakville when you can get in your car and drive to Brampton in 15 or 20 minutes or now probably will take you an hour! This is progress you can have it.

[@troyvan6952]

Driving in Brampton, you're taking your life in your own hands.... beware

[@trevorgwelch7412]

Welcome to Bramladesh Kaneda

[@violettaambrozy5356]

I love Mississauga is best city💖

[@JCooK2007]

Worked in sauga for 15 years. Getting out of that city drastically improved my lifestyle. Such an awful, rude city.

[@mikeoxlong5843]

If you think Mississauga is a great city, please tell me what drugs you are taking. Only someone dis-associated with reality would think anything in the GTA is "best city". Ghetto Toronto Area - That's what GTA means.....

[@jeanettenfreeland1408]

I was born that year in Mississauga

[@williamhillman4499]

I stell don't know what means Mississauga. Doesn't matter Mississauga is one of the greatest cities to live in

[@stewartgillis4851]

All the pro development twaddle...and we bought into it.Pity.

[@lindastevens6861]

A lot of the homes are still standing

[@MmmM-bl7ih]

1:17 total gridlock! I miss that “traffic.”

[@derekhellmann515]

So true

[@michaelkrolewski7406]

The QEW at Mississauga Road is forever under construction. I can't remember that last time I drove there, when it wasn't.

[@jrtiger34]

Mississauga fast becoming a sheet hole! What a shame.

[@HopeLaFleur1975]

And Milton is going down that road

[@nickt8637]

Absolutely agree a total dump.

[@michaelkrolewski7406]

Uh-huh.

[@fiveandtens]

so cool. Can we use some of this footage for a music video?

[@lunit00n68]

Sauga 5n10 redbrick paisily fo life

[@abdus2845]

fax

[@Mellowjay]

An average house price was $30,000 in 1969. 😅

[@daymenleo6895]

😅thats a down payment now😅

[@Mellowjay]

@@daymenleo6895 probably a down payment for a 20 year old 1 bedroom condo in Mississauga. 😂

[@Deira854]

And average salaries have not changed that much

[@Jushwa]

And you were getting what now costs over 2 million

[@Ynalaw]

And very few neighbours were black, noisy and disrespectful.

[@arricammarques1955]

4:59 Lakeview Coal Plant

[@StarGehzer]

That's a lot of skaters on the Credit river!

[@PeelArtGalleryMuseumArchives]

Indeed! You may see something about skating on the Credit, in the Mississauga News, once winter is here. The practice was stopped around the time that Port Credit merged with Streetsville and the Town of Mississauga, into the City of Mississauga (1974), because the Port Credit Yacht Club had become tired of fishing people out of the harbour.

[@youbetcha6880]

@@PeelArtGalleryMuseumArchives That's a shame. If the river is still getting cold enough to freeze over hard enough for skaters, they should do it, especially with COVID. It's better to be outside than inside!

[@AutoWorldzz]

nice!

[@Ynalaw]

The good old days, before Afro gun violence.

[@milotherussianblue3691]

Hazel McCallion is the best mayor ever.

[@sb-ul9vs]

And we had to ruin it