Cooksville Mississauga
Cooksville is a neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is centered around the intersection of two major streets in the city, Dundas Street and Hurontario Street.
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Dundas Street is also known as Ontario Highway 5, while Hurontario Street is also known as Ontario Highway 10, and the intersection has affectionately been nicknamed “5 & 10”, as well as “Four Corners”.
What eventually became the village of Cooksville was originally founded as early as 1808. Today it’s a vibrant neighbourhood that could very well be the most multicultural district in the City of Mississauga.
Cooksville, Mississauga has an abundance of coffee shops, restaurants, and ethnic grocery stores, and the area is well known for its multicultural events, such as annual Taste of Cooksville celebration.
If you are looking for great Korean BBQ, Vietnamese pho, Jamaican jerk cuisine, or amazing Indian delicacies, you have come to the right place.
Where is Cooksville?
Cooksville has the QEW Highway marking its southern edge. It’s eastern boundary extends to roughly Cawthra Road. It’s western boundary is approximately Mavis Road.
The main east-west CP railway tracks mark its northern edge It’s not a particularly large area, but it is packed with sights to see.
How Far is Cooksville from Toronto?
The distance from Union Station in downtown Toronto to Cooksville is approximately 24.8 km.
This neighborhood in Mississauga is blessed with good options for commuting. It has easy access to highways and the local commuter rail network.
Dundas Street and Queensway W. are two east-west routes that run right through the heart of town, and you can take either of them to downtown Toronto. A much faster way, however, is the nearby Queen Elizabeth Way (QEW) highway, which can get motorists into downtown Toronto in about 29 minutes.
There are at least 4 different ways to get from Toronto Union to Cooksville.
- Go Train – travel time 26 minutes
- Bus – travel time 29 minutes
- Taxi – travel time 29 minutes
- Car – travel time 29 minutes
Cooksville GO Station
Cooksville is well connected with heavy rail commuter options. Many local residents are within walking distance of the Cooksville GO Station, just north of the intersection of Dundas Street and Hurontario Street. This is a transportation hub of central Mississauga, linking both the city’s public transit system (“MiWay”), and GO Transit.
The Cooksville GO Station recently underwent a major expansion of its parking facility.
The area is expected to get even greater access to transportation options in the next few years with the construction of the Hurontario light rail transit (LRT) project, which will be called the Hazel McCallion (Hurontario) LRT, to commemorate the former Mississauga mayor.
The Hazel McCallion LRT will have 19 stops starting from the Port Credit GO Station in the south, up to Square One Shopping Centre, continuing to the Brampton Gateway Terminal. There will be a stop at the Cooksville GO Station.
This new environmentally friendly transportation option will give local residents easy access to the other rapidly growing areas of Mississauga and Brampton, including connections to Toronto Pearson International Airport. The new line is set to open in late 2025, or early 2026.
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History of the Area
Cooksville Ontario has a rich history dating back to the early 1800’s when the first settlers arrived.
Why is it called Cooksville?
Cooksville became a hub of commercial activity in the early township, as it was centered on the intersection of two important early roads, Dundas Street and Hurontario Street (which was originally called Centre Road).
The village of Cooksville Canada was originally known as “Harrisville”, named after its first settler Daniel Harris, who arrived in 1808.
Jacob Cook arrived in 1819. By 1820 Cook was awarded a contract to carry mail between York and Niagara and was operating a stagecoach service throughout much of Upper Canada. He was awarded a tavern licence in 1829, and promptly built an inn.
The village was renamed “Cooksville” in 1836. It continued to grow until 1852, when a fire destroyed a large portion of the village.
Cooksville also became the early administrative centre for the surrounding township, and in 1874 the village became home to the first purpose-built Township Hall. For many years it served as the centre for civic, commercial and educational interests in Toronto Township.
Clair House Winery
Cooksville was also home to the Clair House Winery through the Canadian Vinegrowers Association, which was the first commercial winery in Canada. It was located at 169 Dundas Street W.
Rear-Admiral Sir William George Parker purchased a farm lot west of Cooksville in 1841, and built a large house for the family which was dubbed “Clair House.” William’s sons, Henry and Melville Parker, planted grapes here, possibly by 1858.
They connected with Justin De Courtenay, and collaborated to form the Canada Vine Growers Association in 1864. At the height of production in the mid-1860s, Clair House produced as much as 50,000 gallons of wine and a considerable amount of brandy.
Clair House Winery was the first commercial vineyard and winery in Canada. Over time the vineyard was managed by Solomon White, George Torrance, Benjamin Murray and Andrew Aikins. The property was later acquired by Achilles Roumegous, who, together with his son Leopold, produced wine until 1926.
In 1932 Clair House was lost to fire and the Canada Vine Growers Association had ceased to operate. The “Welcome to Cooksville” signs and nearby Parkerhill Road recall Clair House and the birth of the Ontario wine industry.
Historically Cooksville Ontario was also home to a well-known agricultural fair. It joined with other villages of Toronto Township in 1968 to form the Town of Mississauga.
Cooksville Brickyard
For many years the Cooksville Brickyard was the area’s largest employer.
What eventually became Canada’s largest brick-making operation began in 1912-1913 when the Ontario National Brick Company purchased a 200-acre farm at the northeast corner of Dundas Street and Mavis Road.
Over the years shale and clay were extracted from the property under a number of different company names, including the Cooksville Shale Brick Company (1922), Cooksville Brick Company Limited (1944), Cooksville Brick and Tile Company (1946), Cooksville La Prairie Brick Company (1953) and DOMTAR (1956). In 1985 Jannock Limited, under the company name of Canada Brick, purchased the site. Operations ceased in 1991.
Many homes in Mississauga and Toronto were built with bricks manufactured at the Cooksville Brickyard.
After the brickyard closed in 1991, the land was repurposed into a park. See our detailed article on Brickyard Park.
Fun Fact: Confederation Parkway
Confederation Parkway is a major north-south roadway that winds its way through Cooksville and beyond. I would hazard a guess that most people today are not aware that it was originally called Hook Avenue.
Hook Avenue was named after Edward James Hook, a local landowner. The street originally ran only south of Dundas Street. For a short time it was known as Royal Windsor, before it was finally named Confederation Avenue in 1967, in honour of the 100th centennial of Canada’s Confederation.
In 1969 Confederation Avenue was renamed Confederation Parkway, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s the road was extended north of Dundas Street.
Is Cooksville a Good Place to Live?
Cooksville has always had a reputation of being a bit less desirable than the luxury areas south of the QEW Highway. Recently, the towering condos of the Square One City Centre have possibly overshadowed it as well.
I happen to think that Cooksville is one of the most interesting places to live. It’s a diverse, multicultural place with a great central location, and it has its own unique set of charms.
Cooksville Attractions
This is a lively neighborhood that is jam packed with interesting events and places to visit.
Shopping
While Square One Shopping Centre is definitely the top regional shopping mall in the area (located just north of Cooksville in the City Centre area of Mississauga), there is plenty of shopping to be found here.
This area is jammed with small, independent, ethnic stores and services of all kinds.
Restaurants
Cooksville has a great number of authentic, ethnically diverse restaurants and coffee shops.
Parks and Recreation
As mentioned above, one of the Top 20 parks in Mississauga is Brickyard Park in Cooksville.
There are also many other great parks in this neighbourhood, including Floradale Park, Richard Jones Park, Sgt. David Yakichuk Park, and Cooksville Park.
There is a scenic stream known as the Cooksville Creek that flows through several of these parks. It starts near Bristol Rd and Hurontario, meandering downstream to south of the QEW, and eventually empties into Lake Ontario.
Schools in Cooksville
Cooksville straddles a number of different school boundaries. Residences on the east side of Hurontario St. are typically in a different catchment area for both the public schools of the Peel District School Board and the Catholic (separate) schools of the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board.
High school students in the public school system can be assigned to TL Kennedy Secondary School, Cawthra Park Secondary School, or even Port Credit Secondary School.
There are also two Catholic high schools serving the area: Father Michael Goetz Secondary School, and St. Martin Secondary School.
Check out our detailed information on Mississauga school rankings.
Elementary schools that serve the area include:
- Clifton Public School (PK-5), 2389 Cliff Road, Mississauga
- Corsair Public School (1-5), 2230 Corsair Road, Mississauga
- Father Daniel Zanon Elementary School (PK-8), 450 Hillcrest Ave., Mississauga
- Floradale Public School (PK-6), 210 Paisley Blvd W, Mississauga
- Camilla Road Sr Public School (6-8), 201 Cherry Post Drive, Mississauga
- Queen Elizabeth Sr Public School (7-8), 60 S Service Rd, Mississauga
- St Catherine of Siena School (PK-8), 2350 Hurontario St, Mississauga
Hospital
Cooksville is the site of one of Mississauga’s two major hospitals. The Mississauga Hospital is located at 100 Queensway W., near Hurontario and the QEW, right at the southern edge of the neighbourhood.
The 24-hour Emergency Centre at Mississauga Hospital is the largest in Canada, and is one of the busiest in the country. It is frequently the front door to many of the hospital’s regional programs including Stroke, Neurosurgery, Cardiac and Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Services.
The Mississauga Hospital (formerly known as Trillium Hospital) houses the largest concentration of critical care services in Canada, with modern facilities that are currently undergoing a major expansion.
Cooksville Real Estate
Real estate in the area is some of the most affordable in all of Mississauga. The residential areas here are a mix of single family homes and a good assortment of apartment buildings, both purpose-built rentals and condominiums.
The housing stock here is primarily on the older side. Average age of most properties ranges between 40 and 60 years.
For its relatively small size, Cooksville offers a good variety of housing types within its borders. Throughout 2024, there was an active market for detached homes, semi-detached, and freehold townhouses.
Gordon Woods
Although Cooksville is noted for its relatively affordable homes, there is a small, very exclusive pocket in the neighbourhood called Gordon Woods, which is very much a high-priced luxury area.
The homes in Gordon Woods were originally built for doctors working at Mississauga Hospital, and the area consists of a few select streets with a forested tree canopy above them. Many of the large lots here were originally of a semi-rural nature, and today have been redeveloped into magnificent properties.
Real Estate Prices in Cooksville
During 2024, there were 74 detached homes sold in Cooksville through the MLS system, plus 39 semi-detached sales, and 4 freehold townhouses. We can look at detached home sales in 2024, and just a point of clarification, we have not included those homes sold in Gordon Woods, which are in a separate category altogether.
| Address | Asking Price | Date Sold |
|---|---|---|
| 195 Randi | $729,000 | 12/03/2024 |
| 2131 Pear Tree | $899,999 | 08/11/2024 |
| 3027 Mikeboro | $998,000 | 05/29/2024 |
| 469 Selsey | $998,000 | 06/25/2024 |
| 2423 Genevieve | $999,000 | 03/29/2024 |
| 3155 Rock Harbour | $999,800 | 02/08/2024 |
| 2437 Genevieve | $999,900 | 04/04/2024 |
| 517 Corbin | $999,900 | 05/07/2024 |
| 523 Corbin | $999,999 | 12/10/2024 |
| 186 Floradale | $1,050,000 | 03/05/2024 |
| 2683 Crystalburn | $1,090,000 | 06/28/2024 |
| 446 Valleyfield | $1,098,000 | 12/09/2024 |
| 2087 Munden | $1,099,000 | 11/21/2024 |
| 230 McGill | $1,100,000 | 01/13/2024 |
| 3034 Mikeboro | $1,174,900 | 06/20/2024 |
| 2454 Goodison | $1,188,000 | 11/08/2024 |
| 2371 Arbordale | $1,195,000 | 05/27/2024 |
| 2526 Cynara | $1,197,000 | 04/25/2024 |
| 2145 Munden | $1,198,500 | 05/16/2024 |
| 476 Tedwyn | $1,199,000 | 12/19/2024 |
| 2459 Stillmeadow | $1,199,000 | 09/04/2024 |
| 205 King E | $1,199,850 | 05/26/2024 |
| 2494 Callum | $1,199,900 | 05/21/2024 |
| 2504 Donnavale | $1,199,900 | 04/12/2024 |
| 2697 Kingsberry | $1,199,999 | 01/06/2024 |
| 2152 Florian | $1,222,220 | 03/12/2024 |
| 570 Louis | $1,250,000 | 09/19/2024 |
| 2576 Evelyn | $1,250,000 | 11/13/2024 |
| 322 Louis | $1,275,000 | 09/03/2024 |
| 3200 High Springs | $1,288,000 | 05/09/2024 |
| 3144 High Springs | $1,298,000 | 12/04/2024 |
| 2331 Blase | $1,298,999 | 09/30/2024 |
| 2152 Munden | $1,299,000 | 07/26/2024 |
| 291 Chantenay | $1,299,900 | 12/03/2024 |
| 207 McGill | $1,299,900 | 07/17/2024 |
| 269 Pathfinder | $1,319,900 | 04/16/2024 |
| 257 Pathfinder | $1,319,900 | 01/17/2024 |
| 240 Cherry Post | $1,349,000 | 10/04/2024 |
| 2519 Kingsberry | $1,349,000 | 01/10/2024 |
| 2594 Privet | $1,350,000 | 08/09/2024 |
| 2580 Edenhurst | $1,350,000 | 09/12/2024 |
| 211 Cherry Post | $1,350,999 | 03/25/2024 |
| 79 Whitchurch | $1,359,000 | 05/27/2024 |
| 2171 Corsair | $1,378,800 | 09/09/2024 |
| 2261 Stillmeadow | $1,388,888 | 09/27/2024 |
| 482 Tedwyn | $1,388,888 | 05/27/2024 |
| 2211 Corsair | $1,399,000 | 10/19/2024 |
| 424 Targa | $1,449,000 | 09/10/2024 |
| 2577 Palisander | $1,450,000 | 06/13/2024 |
| 394 Targa | $1,489,000 | 05/11/2024 |
| 2485 Privet | $1,495,900 | 08/01/2024 |
| 2224 Stillmeadow | $1,499,000 | 07/29/2024 |
| 292 Randi | $1,499,000 | 01/24/2024 |
| 2380 Stillmeadow | $1,499,000 | 08/09/2024 |
| 2552 Whaley | $1,499,900 | 10/15/2024 |
| 450 Abington | $1,499,900 | 06/19/2024 |
| 365 Maple Grove | $1,529,888 | 07/05/2024 |
| 2226 Capulet | $1,549,000 | 05/31/2024 |
| 176 McGill | $1,569,900 | 07/13/2024 |
| 462 Cullen | $1,579,000 | 10/06/2024 |
| 159 Whitchurch | $1,588,888 | 03/16/2024 |
| 449 Abington | $1,599,000 | 11/14/2024 |
| 275 Chantenay | $1,600,000 | 08/16/2024 |
| 2423 Hensall | $1,679,900 | 07/09/2024 |
| 432 Abington | $1,699,900 | 07/24/2024 |
| 2581 Cynara | $1,699,900 | 03/28/2024 |
| 247 Cherry Post | $1,799,000 | 06/20/2024 |
| 2579 Cliff | $1,848,888 | 07/26/2024 |
| 2430 Old Pheasant | $1,895,000 | 02/11/2024 |
| 386 Moonglow | $1,899,900 | 03/15/2024 |
| 2348 Edenhurst | $2,749,888 | 04/20/2024 |
| 2360 Cliff | $2,799,000 | 07/03/2024 |
| 306 King E | $2,800,000 | 08/26/2024 |
| 2414 Camilla | $2,999,950 | 01/14/2024 |
Single Family Home Statistics for 2024
Once again, we have taken out the sales from Gordon Woods.
| Average Asking Price | $1,413,462 |
| Average Selling Price | $1,403,772 |
| Percentage | 100% |
| Days it took to Sell | 25 |
In addition to these “freehold” properties sold in 2024, there were also 157 condominium properties sold, of which 58 were townhouses, and 99 were condo apartments. Check out our review of Cooksville Condos.
New Condo Developments
Cooksville is currently enjoying a surge in new condo highrise development, in part spurred by the creation of the Hurontario LRT, as well as a potential future bus BRT planned for Dundas Street.
There are two developments underway with the word “art” in them. Artform is a 17 storey condo by Emblem Developments, where occupancy has already started. It is located at 86 Dundas St. E.
Also, the Arte condominium is currently rising at the corner of Confederation Pkwy and Dundas St. W. It’s an 18 storey tower also by Emblem Developments, and its address is 89 Dundas St. W.
In addition to these, there are dozens of additional proposals throughout the area, including a large, multi-tower development planned directly beside the Cooksville GO Station. It appears that the highrise fever so evident in the City Centre has expanded into Cooksville.
FAQ
What is Cooksville known for?
Historically, Cooksville was home to the Clair House Winery, which was the first commercial winery in Canada. It was also home to the famed Cooksville Brickyard. Cooksville also had a well-known agricultural fair.
Is Cooksville a town?
Cooksville is a neighbourhood in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is located south of the City Centre area, and north of the Queen Elizabeth Highway (QEW).
Conclusion:
I believe Cooksville is one of the most interesting parts of Mississauga. With its prime central Mississauga location, its relatively affordable housing stock, its great public transit connectivity, and its excellent multicultural shopping and dining scene, Cooksville has become a popular place for home owners and renters alike.
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