A very old village with a 1960s and 1970s housing stock
Cooksville is the most nuanced of the older Mississauga communities, and it needs an honest read. The settlement dates to 1808 as Harrisville and was renamed Cooksville in 1836, but a fire in 1852 destroyed many of the original homes and businesses and the area declined afterwards, so there is very little genuinely pre-1946 housing left, only 1.8 per cent of dwellings. What is here is concentrated: 27 per cent built between 1961 and 1970 and 32.2 per cent between 1971 and 1980, so 59 per cent of the housing sits in that twenty-year window. The complication is form rather than age. Apartments of five storeys or more make up 60.6 per cent of dwellings, two and a half times the city-wide rate, and only 21.9 per cent are single-detached. The ground-related housing we work in is concentrated in North Cooksville, West Cooksville, Munden Park and Gordon Woods.