Outreach Programs and Presentations from Heritage Mississauga

Heritage Mississauga offers a number of outreach programs and public presentations each year. The topics for our presentations, which are listed below, change over time. Each year we offer a variety of presentations. Each presentation is approximately 50 minutes in length, but can be varied to your needs. We provide the computer, projector and presenter. Please contact Heritage Mississauga to learn more about our presentations, our availability, and our rates: 905-828-8411 ext.29 or email: history@heritagemississauga.org

 

For educational school programs and curriculum-based programming, please contact the Museums of Mississauga at 905-615-4860 or visit www.museumsofmississauga.com

 

Heritage Mississauga offers many different outrearch presentations on a wide variety of Mississauga-focused heritage topics of interest. Although new presentations are in development, for 2012 we currently offer:

 

Ø      “Remembering the AVRO Arrow”

-Recalling the building, cancellation and destruction of the AVRO Arrow

 

Ø      “Journey to the Past: The Lost Villages of Mississauga”

-A brief look at the history of Mississauga’s many lost villages

 

Ø      “A Call to Arms: Historic Mississauga and the War of 1812”

-Connecting Mississauga to the War of 1812: an overview of the conflict, and stories of individual militiamen with Mississauga connections

 

Ø      “In the Footsteps of the Mississaugas”

-Looking at the story of the Native Mississaugas based on the book “In the Footsteps of the Mississaugas”, the Treaty Period, and relocation in 1847

 

Ø      “Tracks Through Time: Mississauga’s Historic Railways and Railway Stations”

-Looking at the origins of the 4 railways which came to historic Mississauga and their railway stations

 

Ø      “The Flight Through Toronto Township: The Rebellion of 1837”

-Looking at the events of 1837-38, and their connections to historic Mississauga

 

Ø       “Haunted Mississauga Revisited”

-Ghost stories from Mississauga

 

Ø      “Mississauga On The Homefront: The War Years”

-Stories from historic Mississauga during WWI & WWII

 

Ø      “Mississauga Remembers: Remember Our Fallen”

-Exploring Mississauga’s fallen and the many cenotaphs and honour rolls from around historic Mississauga

 

Ø      “Mississauga: Roots to Routes”

-Looking at the transportation history of Mississauga, through methods, modes and roads

 

Ø      “Street Names of Mississauga”

-exploring Mississauga’s history through its street names

 

Ø      “Streetsville: Then & Now”

-Pictorial “Then & Now” look at the history of Streetsville

 

Ø      “Cooksville of Yesteryear”

-Overview history of the village of Cooksville

 

Ø      “Meadowvale Village: Then & Now”

-Pictorial “Then & Now” look at the history of Meadowvale Village

 

Ø      “Erindale: Crook of the Credit Revisited”

-Overview history of the village of Erindale Village

 

Ø       “Memories of Christmas: Origins of Christmas Traditions and the History of Santa Claus”

-Origins of Christmas & Santa Claus traditions in Ontario

 

Ø      “Remembering the Mississauga Train Derailment”

-Looking back on the train derailment and evacuation of 1979

 

Ø      “Port Credit: At the River’s Mouth”

-Overview history of the village of Port Credit

 

Ø      “Things That Shaped Mississauga”

-Based on topics from the speakers’ series from 2009 and a student art exhibit

 

Ø      “And the River Runs Through It: Peel’s Historic Villages of the Credit River Valley”

-A photographic journey down the Credit River from source to mouth, highlighting the historic villages along its route

 

Ø       “The Missing Mills of Mississauga”

-An overview history of milling in Mississauga, c.1820 to 1920

  

Ø      “Finding Your Way Through The Maze: Property Research”

-A How-To look at conducting property research in Peel