This special Saturday Matinee production has been pulled from the Heritage Mississauga archives and features an interview and a tour with beloved Mississauga resident Ben Madill (1915 – 2013).
This special Saturday Matinee production has been pulled from the Heritage Mississauga archives and features an interview and a tour with beloved Mississauga resident Ben Madill (1915 – 2013).
Welcome to our 37th installment of “Ask a Historian”. Join Historian Matthew Wilkinson on our YouTube channel for the latest episode of “Ask a Historian” on Thursday February 18, 2021 at 4:00 p.m. In this week’s episode, Matthew explores a few beginnings in our city with the first community centre and the first farm in…
As with previous articles on this theme, whenever I travel, I invariably find myself drawn to making connections back to Mississauga. We recently took a few days to get away and visit Ottawa, which is a place that our family always loves to explore. Our first “connect” to Mississauga came along the route there. Passing…
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…
In last week’s article we explored the name origins of Burnhamthorpe Road, and how local history has passed down the story of a resident named J. Abelson who had the idea to name the rural hamlet after his own birthplace (and the birthplace of Lord Horatio Nelson). In time, the name of the hamlet became…
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