Cooksville sits almost dead centre in Mississauga, built around the crossing of Dundas Street and Hurontario Street. Long before Mississauga existed as a city, this intersection was already a stagecoach stop known locally as the Four Corners, or simply “the Five and Ten,” a nod to the old highway numbers for Dundas (Highway 5) and Hurontario (Highway 10).
The settlement here was first known as Harrisville, named for Daniel Harris, who arrived from the United States in 1807 and became its first settler. In 1836 the community was renamed Cooksville after Jacob Cook, who had bought land at the southwest corner of Dundas and Hurontario in 1819. Cook went on to win the contract to carry mail between York and Niagara, operated several stagecoach lines running as far as Kingston, Hamilton, and London, served as the local magistrate, and in 1829 built the Cooksville House, the area’s first licensed tavern, at the northwest corner of the same intersection.
Cooksville kept growing as a crossroads village through the 19th century until a major fire in 1852 destroyed a large part of it. The community rebuilt and remained one of several villages and hamlets scattered across Toronto Township until 1968, when those communities merged to form the new Town of Mississauga. Six years later, in 1974, the Town of Mississauga absorbed Streetsville and Port Credit to become the City of Mississauga as it exists today.
Cooksville GO Station, at 3210 Hurontario Street, sits just north of the Dundas and Hurontario intersection and reopened in a new station building in 2020. It’s the closest GO station to Square One and Mississauga’s City Centre, which makes it one of the busier stops on the network despite being a short ride from downtown rather than downtown itself. MiWay buses connect the station to the rest of the neighbourhood. See our transit guide for the wider picture.
The Hazel McCallion Line, Mississauga’s long-planned Hurontario LRT, is supposed to run straight through Cooksville on its way between Port Credit GO and Brampton, with a stop near the Dundas and Hurontario intersection. The line was originally scheduled to open in fall 2024, but that date has slipped repeatedly. In May 2026, Mayor Carolyn Parrish said Metrolinx had told city officials the line would be ready in 2028, though Metrolinx representatives have since told residents at a town hall that there’s no confirmed completion date at all. Light rail vehicles began testing on Topflight Drive in August 2026, which at least shows physical progress even without a firm date attached to it.