Toronto Township is a former municipality now mostly part of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, with its northern extremity now a part of Brampton. It was directly west of but not part of the City of Toronto (which was named York at the time of the township's establishment), and its land area makes up the majority of present-day Mississauga.
History
Upper Canada officials signed a treaty for of land from the Mississauga First Nation, in what would become parts of Trafalgar and Toronto Townships on . Further treaty purchases would follow to 1820, with a final portion being abandoned by the Mississaugas in 1847.
Land was surveyed, with agricultural lots being created. Hamlets would gradually form.
Toronto Township was administrated by the Home District Court of Quarter Sessions, in York, and had little direct authority. Legislation in 1841 allowed elected bodies, and districts were dissolved in 1850 in favour of Counties. but gained further independence in 1850. Mississauga became a city seven years later in 1974 after merging with the towns of Streetsville and Port Credit, and ceded its northernmost area (and thus lands formerly part of the township) to Brampton.