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…
Join Heritage Mississauga for our new episode of The Darker Side: True Tales of Murder and Mayhem From Historic Mississauga From 1820 to 1950. This weeks episode is titled “The Dandie Mystery” and Historian Matthew Wilkinson will tell the twisted tale of the mysterious and unsolved death of Thomas Dandie.
Heritage Mississauga will be streaming new and previous presentations on Mississauga’s historic people, places and events as part of our Saturday Matinee series every Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. Join us for another Saturday Matinee this week as we open our vault to feature one of our favorite presentations from 1999, “Tommy Adamson’s History of…
Heritage Mississauga will be offering weekly presentations on the stories, people and places that pervade the fascinating history of Mississauga. Some of these stories will explore the darker side of Mississauga’s history and will appear in our Saturday Short series “The Darker Side”. For our Saturday Short this week we will be featuring “The Train…