Today the City of Mississauga became the first Canadian city to raise the #EveryChildMatters flag permanently! The flag was raised by Gimaa (Chief) Stacey Laforme, Grandmother Kim Wheatley, and Mayor Bonnie Crombie. We are so proud to witness our great city becoming the first to raise the flag to symbolize the commitment to #TruthandReconciliation. Heritage…
Happy 101st birthday to Hazel McCallion! On behalf of Heritage Mississauga we wish Hazel McCallion a happy birthday and thank her for her decades, yes decades, of service to our city. Hazel McCallion is an icon in Mississauga and around the world. She is known as a tenacious and outspoken trailblazer who gets the job…
This week Matthew welcomes Dr. Carolyn Harris as they discuss the unprecedented Platinum Jubilee and the connections of Queen Elizabeth II and the Royal Family to Mississauga. Dr. Carolyn Harris is an instructor in history at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. She received her Ph.D in European history from Queen’s University in…
It is a bit like a bug that I cannot shake. Wherever I travel, wherever I may go, I look to connect with the history and stories of the place, and invariably I am drawn to finding connections to Mississauga. We recently had an opportunity to go winter Yurt camping in Algonquin Park – and…
February is #BlackHistoryMonth and the theme this year is “February and Forever: Celebrating Black History today and every day” which focuses on the need to acknowledge the contributions of Black Canadians historically and everyday. Heritage Mississauga continues to research, record, and celebrate Black History in Canada. Research Centre Assistant Justine Lyn has embarked on an arduous research…
This week Matthew welcomes Heritage Mississauga Resource Centre Assistant Justine Lyn, who has embarked on an extensive project to research Black History in Mississauga. Justine discusses some of the challenges, and errors, that she has encountered while researching census records and archives as well as explores the records and literature left by settlers themselves that…
Mississauga has deep roots in recreation and play. Informal gatherings and local competitions, such as competing barn raising teams, bicycle and horse racing, plowing matches, swimming, and rowing competitions, and even auto-polo and donkey baseball, gradually evolved in semi-organized and organized sporting endeavours, such as baseball, football, lacrosse and hockey, and countless other recreational activities….
This week Matthew answers questions about the birthday of the city of Malton, the naming of Shaw Drive, sweet businesses that existed in Port Credit, and a historic fence found around the city. Heritage Mississauga is the source for Mississauga’s heritage and we receive many inquiries about historic, people, places, milestones, and curiosities from historic…
Dundas stays. The name of the road has been etched on our landscape for over 200 years, and countless citizens over innumerable generations have interacted and connected with the road, and as a by-product, the name. We also know over the recent past the wider societal discussions over colonial place names, and the modern revaluation…
Each Friday. Heritage Mississauga brings you a Fun Fact about the history of Mississauga. See if you can find the answer before we post it! Question: Have you ever seen Stephen Cruise’s beautiful sculpture entitled “Familia” at Harold E. Kennedy Park? The sculpture is reminiscent of many aspects of Port Credit history and industry. Symbols in…