There is also a former commercial strip along Mimico Avenue connecting Royal York Road and Lake Shore Boulevard West.

It was thought to have been the most numerous species in the world at the time European colonization began in North America and is now extinct.

Businesses in Mimico's commercial strips along Royal York (north of the railway tracks) and Lake Shore Boulevard West (South of the railway tracks) have organised themselves into two Business Improvement Areas: 'Mimico Village' (along Royal York Rd.

One of Etobicoke's most prominent businessmen, William Gamble, opened a sawmill on the west bank of Mimico Creek up from the lake, and a small settlement for the mill workers was built nearby.

[15] Mr. Gamble eventually moved his business away,[17] but with the addition of a school at the foot of Church St (Royal York Rd), Mimico would not disappear.

In Tremaine's 1860 Map of York County, the Mimico subdivision is reprinted with all its side streets, however by 1861, the plan had already failed,[21] the area largely returning to agricultural use.

A small number of Victorian buildings were built on the newly laid out streets assuring that this time they would not simply disappear.

The radial railway line brought many of Toronto's wealthy to Mimico's waterfront area, where several large estates were built.

[30] The same year, a second post office named 'Mimico Beach' was established to serve the southern half of Mimico, located on Lake Shore Road.

[33] The town also reacted to the sensational execution of British Nurse Edith Cavell by naming Mimico's old Southampton Street in her memory in 1916.

Another street was also given this name in Toronto's East End leading to recent attempts by Toronto to rename Mimico's Cavell Ave.[34] At the end of the war, the local chapter of the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, who met at the Carnegie Library, presented the town with two plaques honouring all those from the town who had enlisted and another honouring those who had died.

Doubts about Mimico's survival appeared during the Great Depression when the Town went deeply into debt and many businesses disappeared.

The depression also bankrupted some of Toronto's wealthiest including Sir Henry Pellatt (builder of Casa Loma) who had already built a house in Mimico (Bailey House) which stood at the bend in Lake Shore near Fleeceline overlooking the commercial stretch on Lake Shore.

St. Leo's new church was built on the site of Mimico's 1858 Post Office which was demolished and shortly after the postmaster's home (Werden House) was purchased to become the new rectory.

[40] The plaque honouring the towns First World War veterans was removed to a new park named 'Vimy Memorial' at Lake Shore Blvd.

[48] Efforts have also been made recently to prevent the demolition of the Town of Mimico's last municipal building (Firehall at #13 Superior Ave. - now demolished for a condominium) and the Franceshini/Ormsby Estate (Amedeo Garden Court property).

In addition to elementary schools, TDSB also operates the Mimico Adult Learning Centre, situated on Royal York Road.

The street is named after Mimico resident and World War II Victoria Cross recipient, Flight Lieutenant David Ernest Hornell.

On June 24, 1944, Lieutenant Hornell's Consolidated Canso was damaged by gunfire while attacking (and successfully sinking) U-1225 off the Faroe Islands.

Hornell successfully landed the crippled and burning flying boat in heavy seas, but died of exposure.

An outdoor plaque and a display of memorabilia in the front hall are dedicated to Hornell and the school honours his memory annually on Remembrance Day.

[53] As of 2008, construction of the second phase was delayed due to a minority group of property owners who refused to sell their lakefront access.

[54] This project has been completed through the Humber Bay neighbourhood with a roadway named Marine Parade Drive after the original one in Mimico.

It was known across the country as the "Drummond Street Bowl" which included a dirt floor, and old railway boxcars for dressing rooms.

The Mimico Mountaineers brought recognition to the town more than any other sports team with Mann Cup wins in 1932 and 1942.

The area is served primarily with buses along Royal York Road and Evans Avenue connecting with the Bloor-Danforth subway and with streetcars along Lake Shore Boulevard.

The Mimico GO Transit station provides regular east-west commuter rail travel to downtown Toronto and to as far west as Hamilton.

Along the north of the area is the Gardiner Expressway, a large twelve-lane highway (originally built as the Queen Elizabeth Way).

The original naming convention for Mimico side-streets was for English community names: Buckingham, Windsor (now Blue Goose Street), Newcastle, Portland, Burlington, Manchester, Oxford, Dorchester (now in The Queensway), Southampton (Cavell), Salisbury Ave. (Park Lawn Rd.

[57] Some later streets were named for Mimico settlers: O'Donnell, Van Every, Robert Hendry (Wheatfield), George (Hendry), Pidgeon (western part of Stanley), Howland (Ourland), Stock's Side Road (Queen St., later The Queensway); and more recently for former mayors of Mimico: Skelton, Norris.