Treaties Recognition Week is the first week of November every year. Treaties Recognition Week was introduced in 2016 to honour the importance of treaties and to inform about treaty rights and treaty relationships. Reconciliation is about healing and it begins with a commitment to learn about, respect, and honour First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples….
Join us for our first virtual Haunted Mississauga walking tour. This year we will take you on a virtual tour of the Dixie Union Cemetery (c.1809) where you will meet 13 spirits to learn about their lives, and possibly demise, set between 1840 to 1846. There will also be some hidden clues throughout the tour…
Welcome to our 25th 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,…
Morris Gershon, a well-known Toronto poultry buyer, and his assistant, Murray Baker, went missing on June 19th, 1939. They have never been found, although police suspected that the pair met with foul play and were murdered. And they had their suspicions of who was responsible. Gershon’s abandoned truck was found along Highway 122 (Royal Windsor…
In our new “Frightful Fridays” series, we will be exploring some of the folklore and haunted sites in Mississauga as well as feature some stories from our “The Darker Side: True Tales of Murder and Mayhem from Historic Mississauga” series. This week we will look at the Cawthra Estate where many people report that something…
Welcome to our 25th 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,…
In 1992, the Government of Canada designated October as Women’s History Month, marking the beginning of an annual month-long celebration of the outstanding achievements of women throughout Canada’s history. Women’s History Month in 2020 includes the International Day of the Girl (October 11) and Persons Day (October 18). For Women’s History Month we will be…
Welcome to our 24th 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,…
In 1992, the Government of Canada designated October as Women’s History Month, marking the beginning of an annual month-long celebration of the outstanding achievements of women throughout Canada’s history. Women’s History Month in 2020 includes the International Day of the Girl (October 11) and Persons Day (October 18). For Women’s History Month we will be…
Join us on October 10, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. for our Saturday Matinee: “My Villages of Mississauga” presented in 1996 by Verna Mae Weeks. This week we continue our exploration of the lost villages of Mississauga and the history of how they came together to form the city of Mississauga. Verna Mae Weeks (1919 –…