Lakeview, Mississauga

Lakeview
—  Unincorporated community  —
Coordinates: 43°34′3″N 79°34′56″W
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Regional municipality	Peel
City	Mississauga
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Forward sortation area	L4X, L4Y, L5E and L5G
Area code(s)	905 and 289
NTS Map	030M12
GNBC Code	FBVYM

Lakeview, is one of the communities in Mississauga (formerly Toronto Township), in the Region of Peel, just east of Port Credit, which amalgamated into the Town of Mississauga in 1968. It is located in the extreme southeastern corner of the city. Lakeview was known for the 4 Sisters, the four smokestacks of the former Lakeview Generating Station of Ontario Power Generation. They were called the 4 Sisters because the generating plant actually had eight boilers and two boilers were 'sistered' to a common stack. The generating station was demolished in 2007, about a year after the 4 Sisters stacks were demolished, which occurred on the morning of June 12, 2006. At 493ft each they were easily the tallest structures in the area. Currently the tallest structure is a 25 story condominium building, Applewood Place, located on the northwest corner of Bloor Street and Dixie Road.

Lakeview is found along the northern shores of Lake Ontario, with an eastern boundary of Etobicoke Creek north of Lake Shore Road and the property line of the former Small Arms Division of Canadian Arsenals Ltd./Marie Curtis Park south of Lake Shore Road, and a western boundary of Cooksville Creek.

It was the site of the first commercial air training airport in Canada and the home for many war time munitions plants during World War II. The airport was run by the Curtis Aviation School and located west of the recognized centre of Long Branch part of the current city of Toronto. The Lakeview location is documented by the presence of Aviation Road running south off Lakeshore Road just west of Cawthra Road. The site is further acknowledged by National Historic Plaque #1166

Along the shore of Lake Ontario, Lakeview is the home of the Port Credit Yacht Club and the Water Treatment Plantas well as the G. E. Booth (Lakeview) Wastewater Treatment Plant.

The area is also home to a Metro grocery store, a beer store (both on Lakeshore Rd.), the Lakeview Branch Library, and 3 high schools: Cawthra Park Secondary School, Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School, and St. Paul Secondary School. Many parks run along Lake Ontario, including well-lit baseball diamonds used by many junior leagues.

Transportation

• Port Credit and Long Branch GO stations
• Queen Elizabeth Way
• Mississauga Transit routes 5 Dixie, 8 Cawthra and 23 Lakeshore

See also

• Port Credit, Ontario
• Lorne Park
• Meadowvale, Ontario
• Malton, Ontario

External links

Lakeview Ratepayer's Association
Inspiration Lakeview