A city in Ontario, Canada, located west of Toronto. Also refers to the Mississauga people, an Anishinaabe First Nation whose traditional territory included this area.
From Ojibwe 'misi-saagii,' meaning 'river of the large outlet,' referring to the Credit River's mouth at Lake Ontario. The Mississauga people's name comes from this geographical feature that defined their homeland.
Mississauga represents the complex layering of North American place names - an indigenous word describing the natural geography that was later adopted for both a people and a modern city. The name carries the memory of the original inhabitants while serving as the identity for a completely transformed urban landscape.
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