The year was 1969, and the Town of Mississauga had 100 major plants, and “scores” of smaller industry. The booming community wasn't intent on slowing down though, so it commissioned the production of a film titled, Mississauga: Land on the Move. The film's goal was to promote economic development at conferences in New York and Montreal and entice prospective businesses to relocate and join names like St. Lawrence Cement, Inter-City Truck Lines, Playtex, Rubbermaid, Cryovac, Rexall and over a hundred other businesses in the community.

Recently the Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives digitized the film. It can be viewed on YouTube, or right here.

Although to the modern eye the production may seem dated, it effectively documents quite an array of local amenities and attractions. Hundreds of locations around the community are shown, including houses, apartments, schools, churches, shopping centres, fire halls and police stations.

Some of the locations that have since disappeared: Port Credit's freight harbours, billed as forming “a part of the great St. Lawrence Seaway system"; Lakeview's coal energy plant, one of the “largest thermal generating stations in the world”; the original South Peel Hospital, easily dwarfed by its successor, the Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga Hospital; a brief shot of the recently closed Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School; and the umbrella-lined restaurant at the Huron Park Community Centre.