There is a word in the Indian language "Missisakis"
meaning "many river mouths". By the mid nineteenth
century the Mississaugas believed they had obtained
their name from the mouths of the Trent, Moira,
Shannon, Napanee, Kingston, and Gananoque rivers.

The term New Credit is in recognition of the fact that the
Mississaugas traded goods along the shore of the Credit
River prior to the move to their new location in 1847. This First
Nation was once a mighty and respected trading nation with the Europeans in and around an area, which included Port Credit and the City now known as Toronto. The city of Mississauga owes its name to the Mississaugas of the New Credit. The Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation is located on some 600 acres south of Hamilton, Ontario. There are approximately 1400 listed Ojibwe members with one third living on reserve.


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