A mill village that grew in two bursts
Streetsville grew in two bursts, and each left a different floor. The first settlers arrived in 1819 when Timothy Street and Richard Bristol completed the survey; Street acquired 1,000 acres, and five mill sites grew up along a three-mile stretch of the Credit River. Streetsville became a village in 1858 and a town in 1962, and joined Mississauga in 1974. The City’s community profile notes that the first half of the twentieth century brought little change beyond better roads and services, and that in the 1950s the village added 500 acres and subdivisions spread onto farmland. Its 2001 census figures (City of Mississauga community profile) show both bursts: 22.5 per cent of dwellings dated from 1946 to 1960, three times the city-wide 7.5 per cent, and 29.2 per cent from 1971 to 1980, with 69.9 per cent built before 1981. The 1950s houses went up as plywood was replacing plank, so a house from that decade can have diagonal boards or early plywood under the finished floor, nailed down either way. The 1970s houses are more predictable: plywood nailed to the joists, now around fifty years old, where a squeak usually comes from a nail rubbing in a loosened connection and the fix is to draw the subfloor tight to the joist again.
