Mississauga City Hall and George Carlson

George Carlson: For starters, the view north, west and south was nothing but rolling green fields, according to The Star. Everything was closed on Sunday, kids were in Sunday school, and all the dads cut the grass at the same time on Saturday, said George Carlson, a long-time city councillor and lifelong Mississauga resident, with a chuckle. It was a vanilla town. Light vanilla, even and As she peered out the windows of Mississauga City Hall, through classic 1970s horned-rimmed specs she sometimes donned, newly anointed mayor Hazel McCallion would have seen a city unrecognizable to the one she steers today. In 1978, when McCallion rode a wave of support for what dubbed her plain talk and unpretentious campaign, the 57-year-old politician inherited a predominantly white, car-dependant town of 280,000 not unlike Pleasantville. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.