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).
We have to stretch back a bit into the fogs of history for this one, and there remains a bit of uncertainty. Lot 7, Concession 2, SDS was granted by The Crown to James Glennon in 1810, who promptly sold the 200-acre property to Oliver Grace. Oliver Grace (the elder) was a retired British Naval…
George McGill was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and came to Canada around 1837, together with his wife Elizabeth Bishop and their children: Ann, Henry, Margaret, James, John and newborn infant William. In 1851 George purchased a 200-acre property in what is now the Lorne Park area of Mississauga. His land was on the north side…
Ron Page (1925- 2014) was a prominent expert in aviation history who authored five popular aeronautical books. Ron was also a pilot during the Second World War and flew parachute drops as well as Spitfire planes. After obtaining an Aeronautical degree at Loughborough University, graduating in 1952 with first class honours at the top of…
This article might pose more questions than answers. There is a street (or a court to be precise) in northwest Mississauga named for Bishop John Strachan (pronounced “Strawn”). Bishop Strachan Court was developed in the early 1990s as part of the Trelawny subdivision development in Meadowvale, which in itself is a unique part of Mississauga’s…
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