Heritage Bytes

Join us as we interview Daniel Wong about the creation of Heritage Mississauga's newest comic book - The Grange Volume 12: Legend of the Heights.   Daniel explores how he takes the story from an idea through the artistic creation and layout process to the exceptional final product.   The comic is now available for free through Heritage Mississauga.

Join us this week for Ask A Historian with Royal historian Carolyn Harris to discuss the upcoming coronation of King Charles III. Dr. Carolyn Harris is an instructor in history at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. She received her Ph. D in European history from Queen’s University in 2012. Her writing concerning the history of monarchy in the UK, Europe, and Canada has appeare...

Join us as we respond to a question about what are the oldest stores in Mississauga. We will explore the history of the Franklin House in Streetsville, the McClelland-Copeland Store in Cooksville, and the Montreal House in Streetsville.

Join us as we welcome local historian Richard Collins and explore the former Long Branch Rifle Ranges, which operated in the Lakeview area of Mississauga between 1891 and 1957.

Join us as we answer a question about early doctors in historic Mississauga and explore the stories of Dr. Joseph Adamson, Dr. John Crumbie, and the Suttons.

Mississauga Confidential: Case 14 - Night Moves, Part Two: The Three Trials of Peter Demeter   Welcome, dear listeners, to another tale of murder, scandal and crime from Mississauga’s darker side.   Today, we continue unraveling the twisted criminal tale of Peter Demeter.    At the end of his trial for the murder of his wife, Christine, Peter Demeter was found guilty, and became the most notorious...

Welcome, dear listeners, to another tale of murder, scandal and crime from Mississauga’s darker side. Without mincing words, today's case is the most notorious murder in Canadian history. Christine and Peter Demeter were the epitome of post-war Canadian dreamers: Stylish, good-looking and rich.  The expansive Demeter mansion in Erindale was the epitome of the post-war Canadian dream home: A five-b...

This week on Ask A Historian, Matthew welcomes Michael Spaziani as they discuss the future of Mississauga and opportunities for Mississauga to evolve a better sense or soul for a "There, there" with future developments.   Michael Spaziani, B.E.S. (Environmental Studies), B. Arch., OAA, FRAIC, is the principal of MSAi, an architectural firm specializing in urban design and architecture. Founded in...

Heritage Mississauga invites you to join us for our final webinar in our 2022 Placemaking Webinar Series: "2051: Planning for Mississauga's Future" with Ben Phillips. Mississauga’s Official Plan is the city’s road map for the future. It lays out where housing, industry, offices, shops, rapid transit and roads should go. It determines what parts of the city will be the focus of growth and provides...

Heritage Mississauga invites you to join us for our third webinar in our 2022 Placemaking Webinar Series: "Lakeview Village: Wouldn't It Be Nice to Live Together" with Matthew Marsili. Coming to the shores of Mississauga! Lakeview Village is a revival of our waterfront on 177 acres and is a mode for a 15-minute city. It has over 45 acres of green space with access to over 450 acres of parkland, a...

Heritage Mississauga invites you to join us for our second webinar in our 2022 Placemaking Webinar Series: "Port Credit; Back to Life" with Frank Giannone. Until the 1980's Port Credit was a bustling complete community; but in the 1990's its vibrant downtown was virtually shutdown. By the late 1990's a reawakening was triggered, and in the 2000's new developments built on that reawakening bringing...

Heritage Mississauga is very excited to announce our 2022 Placemaking Webinar Series! In our first webinar of the series, we invite you to join Michael Spaziani for his webinar "The Birth of a City: Putting the “There” There in Mississauga"  In 1935 Gertrude Stein returned from Paris to her childhood home, Oakland California, 45 years after she had left, only to find that the joyful place she expe...

Spring has arrived and the Garden of Remembrance at the Grange is now flourishing.  Join us today on Heritage Bytes as a loving grandmother shares the history and significance of the Remembrance Garden at the Grange with her grandson and highlights the importance of remembering all of those who have served and fallen in service to Canada. The Garden of Remembrance at the Grange was created by Heri...

When we last met, dear listener, gangster Mickey McDonald had just been fingered for one of the most notorious murders in Toronto’s history, by none other than his longtime pal and partner-in-crime, John R. Shea. But if there’s one rule to live by in the criminal underworld, it’s never be a snitch. The clock is ticking on these two former friends, as the entire province bands together to take down...

Welcome, dear listeners, to another tale of murder, scandal and crime from Mississauga’s darker side.   In today’s case, we investigate two separate crimes, in two different places, under seemingly unrelated circumstances.   What does a small town bank robbery in Port Credit and a big city Gangland murder in the heart of Toronto have in common?  The lowest common denominator: a lone figure, poised...

Welcome, dear listeners, to another tale of murder, scandal and crime from Mississauga’s darker side. In today’s case, we meet a family new to Mississauga. The Lammerse family moved to Canada from Holland, by way of Detroit, in search of a better life. But what they really found was a land struck by the growing pains of its youth. Big city crime was creeping out to the once pastoral landscapes bey...

Please join us for our final webinar in the series as Diane Smoke-Thomas delivers this important presentation to our communities to educate, advocate, and to raise awareness for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls. In September of 2016, the Canadian Government launched the National Public Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Over 2300 people participated in som...

Join Kim Wheatley, Anishinaabe Cultural Consultant, in honoring the process of ancestral harvesting practices through images, stories and traditional teachings based on Anishinaabe Ways of Knowing. She will share experiences based on the 1 year immersion project she has created and is currently immersed within while expanding on relationships to the lands and waters she calls home! Traditional Ani...

Join us for our second webinar in Heritage Mississauga's Indigenous Conversations webinar series, Indigenous Conversations: The Sacred Medicines with Kim Muskratt. Kim’s knowledge is passed on through traditional teachings from her grandparents and elders as well as other knowledge keepers who also share a passion for traditional plants and medicines and their uses. She often sits in the woods and...

Welcome, dear listeners, to another tale of murder, scandal and crime from Mississauga’s darker side. Today's case details the sordid history of the Mississauga stretch of Lakeshore Road. All along the highway, seedy roadhouses sprung up to meet the needs of weary travellers. Behind the respectable facade of dining and dancing hid a thriving black market of illicit booze and gambling. Gangsters we...

Welcome, dear listeners, to another tale of murder, scandal and crime from Mississauga’s darker side.   Today's case is a crime of desperate impulse. A young man, on the wrong side of the law, is confronted by his transgressions, and lashes out.  His violent reaction would ignite the largest manhunt in the area’s history, and pit him against every police officer from Toronto to Oakville.    From t...

Welcome, dear listeners, to another tale of murder, scandal, and crime from Mississauga’s darker side.   Today's case examines a man living a double life. On the surface, Philip C. Rumbold was a wealthy, respected real estate magnate from Tonawanda, New York. What lay beneath the surface was a dark secret that may have gotten him killed.   On July 22nd, 1930, on a lonely road in Port Credit, Rumbo...

Heritage Mississauga is pleased to announce our fourth speaker in our  #BlackHeritageMatters  webinar series will be Dr. Bryan Walls from the John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum. Dr. Walls will be sharing his presentation of "The Road That Led to Somewhere" during which Dr. Walls speaks to the deeper significance of his book of the same name and tells the story of his...

Heritage Mississauga welcomes Rosemary Sadlier OOnt (Order of Ontario) for her presentation of Courageous Conversations: Connecting Black History to 2022. In this talk, we will examine some significant elements of African Canadian History as connected to and distinct from the United States. In the process, why we have a Black History Month and why it is necessary will be explored as will some cont...

Heritage Mississauga invites you to join us as we continue with our webinar series Black Heritage Matters. This week, we are pleased to welcome Kathy Grant, who will be presenting "Black Canadian Veteran Stories". Kathy will be discussing the history, experiences, and contributions of Black Canadian Veterans. Born in Montreal to Barbadian immigrants, Kathy Grant is a public historian and founder o...