Erin Mills is a large suburban district in the city of

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, Canada, approximately west of

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. Starting in the 1970s, Erin Mills was developed as a "

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" by the Cadillac Fairview Corporation on over of farmland around

Erin Mills Town Centre Erin Mills Town Centre is a shopping mall located in Erin Mills, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, at the corner of Erin Mills Parkway and Eglinton Avenue West. It is the second largest mall in Mississauga, after Square One. The mall can be access ...

. Cadillac Fairview inherited the development from

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's Don Mills Development Corporation, which acquired land in the 1950s and coined the area's name. Taylor sold the development to Cadillac Fairview in 1968. The name paid homage to the historic Erindale to the south as well as various mills along the Credit River to the east. The closest mill was found along Eglinton Avenue in what was once Barberton, now a ghost town that once was built around the Toronto Woollen (Mills) Factory owned by brothers Robert and William Barber. Erin Mills is an integrated residential, industrial and, commercial community, with commercial uses concentrated in the centre and industrial uses on the periphery. Based on census boundaries, the 2001 population was estimated at 105,000, making it the most populous but not the most densely-populated area in Mississauga, and one of the fastest-growing. As of the

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, the population is 122,560.

Erin Mills Parkway This page lists all of the numbered regional roads in Peel Region, Ontario. See also *List of roads in Brampton *List of roads in Mississauga The following is a list of non-numbered and numbered ( Peel Regional Roads) in Mississauga, Ont ...

mostly follows the course of the former Fifth Line West.

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