The densest postwar bungalow stock in the city
Lakeview is, by the City’s own community profile figures, the best match in Mississauga for the work we do. Of its dwellings, 34.2 per cent were built between 1946 and 1960, more than four times the city-wide rate for that period, with 40.2 per cent predating 1961 and 82 per cent predating 1981. It is also 58 per cent single-detached against a city-wide 44.6 per cent and 72.2 per cent owner-occupied, so it is genuinely ground-related family housing rather than apartments. The history behind it is unusual: Curtiss Aeroplanes established Canada’s first aerodrome and flying school here in 1915, there were over three hundred residents by 1923, Depression-era arrivals bought cheap land and built their own homes, and by 1950 the area had gone from rural to suburban. Notably, nine per cent of Lakeview dwellings are flagged as needing major repairs against 5.1 per cent city-wide.