Welcome to our thirteenth 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,…
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…
When setting out to learn more about our city’s early Black history, it is an all-encompassing endeavor that can sometimes leave us with more questions than we began, but it’s always an enriching experience. Such is the case with the Canada West census in 1861, which shows a Black family living in Toronto Township, Peel…
During our 2019 Doors Open in Streetsville Historian Matthew Wilkinson took visitors on walking tours of historic places and spaces in beautiful Streetsville. Can you identify some of the buildings Matthew visited before time runs out? Due to COVID 19 our June 2020 participation in Doors Open has been cancelled so we have created some…
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