Lakeview sits on Mississauga’s eastern edge, along Lake Ontario and right up against the Toronto border. For most of the 20th century it was best known for a power plant. Today it’s the site of the largest single redevelopment project in the city’s history.
Lakeview is bounded roughly by the Queensway to the north, Cawthra Road to the west, Lake Ontario to the south, and Etobicoke Creek to the east, where Mississauga gives way to Toronto’s Long Branch neighbourhood. Like Long Branch and Alderwood just across that border, it’s a mix of pre- and post-war houses on tree-lined streets, with newer custom homes filled in on some of the wider lots.
From 1958 to 1962, Ontario Hydro built the Lakeview Generating Station on the waterfront just east of Cawthra Road. Premier John Robarts officially opened it on June 20, 1962, and over the following decades it became a fixture on the skyline, its four smokestacks, nicknamed the Four Sisters, visible from as far away as Burlington and downtown Toronto. The plant supplied power to the province for 43 years before the Ontario government directed its owner, Ontario Power Generation, to stop burning coal there by 2005. The Four Sisters were demolished on June 12, 2006, and the rest of the station came down the following year.
The old power plant lands, roughly 177 acres along the waterfront, are now being redeveloped as Lakeview Village. The city’s master plan for the site was approved in November 2021, and the finished project is planned to include around 12,000 residential units (including 800 affordable or attainable units), about 45 acres of parkland spread across six parks, an extension of the Trans Canada Trail along the waterfront, and a pier intended to be the longest on any of the Great Lakes. It’s a multi-decade build, so expect construction activity along the lakefront for years to come.
Transit access is still catching up to the scale of that growth. The provincial government announced in 2024 that a new Lakeview GO station would be built on the Lakeshore West line between the existing Long Branch and Port Credit stations, but Metrolinx has since recommended internally against building it, arguing that local transit connections to the existing stations would serve new residents about as well. Whether the station gets built remains unresolved, so for now getting to and from Lakeview means MiWay buses or driving to Port Credit GO or Long Branch GO. See our transit guide for the wider picture.