Welcome to our 20th installment of “Ask a Historian”. Every week Heritage Mississauga will be taking questions about the history and heritage of Mississauga which our Historian, Matthew Wilkinson, will answer on Thursday afternoons. #ApartTogether, Heritage Mississauga is the source for inquiries and curiosity about our beautiful city as we continue our mandate to research,…
Did You Know? The meeting of the “Founding Fathers” is an artist’s concept found in the book 175 years of history, 1825-2000: St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Erindale” by Thompson Adamson which depicts a meeting of a group of men from the settler and Indigenous communities, who helped to chart the course and shape the world…
Do You Have Questions About the History of Mississauga? Heritage Mississauga answers over 500 inquiries a year about the heritage and history of Mississauga. These inquiries are sent by the City, residents, businesses and media partners and now we would like to invite you to ask our Historian, Matthew Wilkinson, questions that you may have…
Our story has a bit of a mystery: a wonderful obituary, a surname with multiple spellings, and children baptized in two different faiths at the same time. Certainly there is a story to be explored. Catherine Dinan was born in County Clare, Ireland, on February 16, 1844. At the age of 3, in 1847 and…
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