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Mimico, Toronto — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Mimico stands on the Lake Ontario shore within Toronto, a former independent municipality that ran its own affairs from 1911 to 1967.
About Mimico
Where to stay in Mimico
Each area has its own feel; here's who each one suits.
The lake decides it. A room in Mimico sits within reach of the Lake Ontario shoreline and the streets around Wesley Mimico United Church, which is a very different proposition from booking in the middle of Toronto and riding out to the water. Rooms along Mimico's shore are scarce.
Anyone choosing this stretch of the former Township of Etobicoke is picking shoreline and quiet over the density of Ontario's main city, and accepting a longer trip in exchange.
About Mimico
What are the main landmarks in Mimico?
Two churches carry the neighbourhood's built history. St. Leo's Roman Catholic Church and Wesley Mimico United Church are the named heritage structures the record attaches to Mimico, both of them parish buildings rather than civic monuments, and both within an easy walk of the Lake Ontario edge. Neither is a tower.
What they mark instead is a settlement that kept its own institutions through the years it governed itself as an independent municipality, from 1911 to 1967.
What is the history of Mimico?
1856 gives the earliest date attached to Mimico. Self-government came later: the place ran as an independent municipality from 1911 to 1967, running its own affairs on the Lake Ontario shore while the surrounding Township of Etobicoke handled the country behind it. Then the arrangement ended.
Since 1967 the name has denoted a neighbourhood of Toronto rather than a municipality of Ontario, and the two parish churches still stand among its streets.
Where is Mimico?
Water sets the edge here: Mimico meets Lake Ontario along one flank, with the rest of it inside the former Township of Etobicoke, in temperate Toronto.
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Updated September 2026