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“Missing Ya”

22 June 2006


Where life was Mississauga
as to that of Hamilton born
An element of sentiment
this way upon words to address

This shore of Toronto
where the tribal customs do greet
Ontario, this lake of surround
grasping passion, or sharing hearts

The birth of Christ, His salvation to give
a sacrifice times to its endured need
Forgiveness, yet unrepentant
each wound a symbol of hope

Faith in charity, loves pure presence
toward a new city in times dawn
A child of greater means, this heaven to grace
upon a river faded, yet given in light


Formed in 1974, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada takes in the settlements of Dixie, Clarkson,
Cooksville, Port Credit, Streetsville, Meadowvale Village, Malton, Erindale, in the Greater
Toronto Area of the Great Lakes bordered Canadian Province. All of the settlements, except
for Port Credit and Streetsville, joined to together in 1968 to form the Town of Mississauga.
In 1974, Mississauga incorporated as a City, this time including Port Credit and Streetsville,
with a population growing to around 700,000 residents.

Mississauga is Canada's sixth-largest city, located in the Peel Regional Municipality, Ontario,
west of Toronto. A part of the Greater Toronto Area, it is also regarded as one of the largest
suburban municipalities in North America. At the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the
1600s, one of the First Nations groups the traders found around the Credit River area were
called the Mississauga Tribe.


© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares


© Copyright 2006 Christopher W Herbert - All Rights Reserved
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