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Mississauga - Southwestern Ontario
 Peel Region. Photo © Mark Visser

Tower Information
Location: (L): Meadowville GO Station on Millcreek Drive. Photo taken from Argentia Drive.
Centre photo: Same tower, original paint job, photo taken from GO parking lot.
Signage: Mississaga Peel Region
Built: 1971
Height: 57 meters
Capacity: 3,300,000 liters		 Tower Information
Location: 1400 Lakeshore Road E. just west of Marie Curtis Park
Site Info.
The site is known as the Arsenal Lands because during World War II it was the site of a munitions factory, Small Arms Co. Ltd., that built the Lee Enfield Rifle. Subsequently, the property was owned by Canada Post and operated as a mail sorting facility.
 
 

Area information
Mississauga is located on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, bordering Toronto. With a population of 721,599 (2016) it is one of the most populous suburbs in the world outside of Asia. It is home to Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada's busiest airport.
Toronto Township, consisting of most of present-day Mississauga, was formed on 2 August 1805 when officials from York (what is now the City of Toronto) purchased 84,000 acres (340 km²) of land from the Mississaugas. In January 2010, the Mississaugas and the federal government settled a land claim, in which the band of aboriginal people received $145,000,000, as just compensation for their land and lost income. The original villages (and some later incorporated towns) settled included: Lakeview, Clarkson, Cooksville, Dixie, Erindale (called Springfield until 1890), Lorne Park, Port Credit, Sheridan and Summerville.

 
The Mavis Road Train disaster
On 10 November 1979, a 106-car freight train derailed on the CP rail line while carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals just north of the intersection of Mavis Road and Dundas Street. One of the tank cars carrying propane exploded, and since other tank cars were carrying chlorine, the decision was made to evacuate nearby residents. With the possibility of a deadly cloud of chlorine gas spreading through Mississauga, 218,000 people were evacuated.
Residents were allowed to return home, once the site was deemed safe. At the time, it was the largest peacetime evacuation in North American history. Due to the speed and efficiency in which it was conducted, many cities later studied and modelled their own emergency plans after Mississauga's. For many years, the name "Mississauga" was, to Canadians, associated with a major rail disaster. Wikipedia
 
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