Toronto Township is a former municipality now mostly part of

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, Canada, with its northern extremity now a part of

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. It was directly west of but not part of the City of Toronto (which was named

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at the time of the township's establishment), and its land area makes up the majority of present-day Mississauga.

History

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officials signed a treaty for of land from the Mississauga First Nation, in what would become parts of Trafalgar and Toronto Townships on . Further treaty purchases would follow to 1820, with a final portion being abandoned by the Mississaugas in 1847. Land was surveyed, with agricultural lots being created. Hamlets would gradually form. Toronto Township was administrated by the Home District Court of Quarter Sessions, in York, and had little direct authority. Legislation in 1841 allowed elected bodies, and districts were dissolved in 1850 in favour of Counties. Toronto Township's council met as a unit from 1844 on, but gained further independence in 1850. Peel County became the County of York, Second Riding in 1850, and a distinct provisional county in 1852. Full separation was made in 1867. Following rapid urbanization, the Township incorporated as a Town in 1968. It was renamed Mississauga after a public vote. Mississauga became a

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seven years later in 1974 after merging with the towns of Streetsville and

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, and ceded its northernmost area (and thus lands formerly part of the township) to Brampton.

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