Produced and published by Heritage Mississauga, 2010

The City of Mississauga was born through a series of amalgamations. Mississauga was and is made up of a series of historic villages, hamlets and crossroads communities. These places grew around major crossroads and served as service centres for the rural and agricultural expanse of historic Mississauga. Several historic place names survive in our modern city, but many more have disappeared from recognition and recollection. The “Lost Villages” reached their peak between 1850 and 1900. By 1915, they had begun to fade. These hamlets and villages included Barberton, Britannia, Burnhamthorpe, Derry West, Elmbank, Frogmore, Hanlan, Lisgar, Mount Charles, Palestine, Pucky Huddle, Sheridan and Summerville, amongst others. Many of these places have left behind sparse memories of their existence upon the modern landscape: a few cemeteries, scattered historic buildings, old roads, modern street and place names, and sometimes nothing at all.

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