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Clarkson Village is a small community located in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, a suburb of Toronto. The community is located in the south west corner of Mississauga, along the banks of Lake Ontario. The community is bordered by Lake Ontario to the south, Oakville to the west, Erindale and Erin Mills to the north, and Lorne Park to the East.
Contents
1 History
2 Today
3 Entertainment
4 POPULATION
5 Transportation
History
In 1808, fifteen year old Warren Clarkson and his brother Joshua left their home in Albany, New York to seek their fortune in Canada. They had been invited to come work for a friend of the family who had bought land near Lake Ontario. Warren liked the area very much and decided to stay. He worked hard so that someday he would be able to own property. When he was twenty-six he had saved enough money to buy land and build a home. Warren married and began to raise a family. As the years went by Warren bought more land. He built the community's first store along the stagecoach trail. Fifteen years later the town council named this trail Clarkson Road.
A post office was opened in the family store and William Clarkson, Warren's son became the postmaster. For the next forty five years a member of the Clarkson family would run the post office. Clarkson community never grew vary large. It had a few houses and shops along Clarkson Road, a railway station a school and a church. Less than one hundred people lived in this quiet community.
Today
Although the community and the surrounding area consists mostly of a mix of upper and middle class homes, some of the last major industrial sites in Mississauga outline the community, including:
a Petro-Canada Oil Refinery, which produces lubricants
a St. Lawrence Cement Terminal, which distributes Cement via truck throughout Toronto.
CFRB 1010 and 1050 CHUM AM Radio Transmitter.
Orion Bus Industries. A major manufacturer of buses for public transportation.
Electrovaya A manufacturer of portable computers and batteries.
and an assortment of small farms.
Transportation
Although King's Highway 2, also known as Lakeshore Road, passes right through downtown Clarkson Village, the area is one of Mississauga's transportation hubs, with a commuter rail and bus station, as well as two major highways crossing nearby.
The Clarkson GO Transit train station and Mississauga Transit bus terminal. The train trip takes 26 minutes from Clarkson to downtown Toronto. It has quick access to the provincial freeways Queen Elizabeth Way and Highway 403 5km further to the north.
Most of the information on this page is used with permission from wikpedia, for most current information, please browse to wikpedia on Mississauga
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