Mississauga is where Toronto begins. At least it is from a municipal place name perspective. The area we now know as the City of Mississauga was originally named Toronto Township…
Mississauga has produced its fair share of hockey greats. There’s Hall of Famers, Paul Coffee, Paul Henderson and Johnny Bower. National sledge hockey players Dominic Cozzolino and Danica McPhee. Former…
Canoes and kayaks are quintessentially Canadian. Indigenous by design, these two watercraft were how people traversed Canada’s myriad lakes and rivers for thousands of years, trading and travelling across kilometres.…
From its place on the western bank at the mouth of the Credit River, the Don Rowing Club seems like it’s a long way from home. Named for the Don…
Sixty years ago Oscar Peterson was on a train when an arrangement began to play in his mind. The Montreal-born Peterson was an established international jazz star, a virtuoso on…
Listen up: in 1975 as the City of Mississauga was finding its rhythm, a trio of long-haired rockers came blasting out of the ‘burbs. Triumph. Guitarist Rik Emmett with his…
Cricket used to be a relic of Mississauga’s early colonial past – until Ali Khan came along. In 1966 the 35-year-old Khan was living and working in Mississauga as a…
Toronto may be ‘Hollywood North’, but Mississauga has fast become Hollywood North By Northwest. These days it’s not unusual to come across the familiar box trucks and lighting apparatus that…
Robert J. Sawyer revels in asking the big questions. The dean of Canadian science fiction, having penned an astonishing 24 novels that have taken us to space, into the future…
As any start-up founder will tell you, you’ve gotta weather a lot of ‘nopes’ in search of your big break.
To understand how Canada rocketed from colonial outpost to G7 nation take a stroll through Square One.
Located on the east bank of the Credit River, just north of Lakeshore Road, the Park has green spaces, a stage, the city’s Music Walk of Fame – and a deep connection to the Mississaugas of the Credit.