1507 Clarkson Road North, Mississauga (905) 615-4860,x2110 www.museumsofmississauga.com Architect: Edgar Neave; Year Built: 1857
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
With more than 160 years of history, this Georgian-style estate was home to four generations of the Harris and Sayers families. Restored in 1995 to reflect daily life in the First World War era, this unique historic home is filled with original artifacts. Join us for Doors Open Mississauga and enjoy guided tours of the historic house and its outbuildings.
This delightful country setting features historic gardens and buildings, including Bradley House, built around 1830, and a log cabin. Take in the 2010 Mississauga Fall Festival! Activities and displays, such as “Get Back to Simple Living,” offer new ideas for “living green.” Enjoy wagon rides, historical demonstrations, environmental displays and great food.
151 Lakeshore Road West, Mississauga (905) 278-3714 www.firstportcredit.com Architect: O.W. Brown and C.A. Ray; Year Built: 1950
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
This modern Gothic structure – built in 1950 to accommodate a congregation that had grown from the ministry of Peter Jones (begun in 1825), Canada’s first native Methodist missionary – is connected to the original church. View the renovated sanctuary and the stunning stained-glass windows depicting Mary and the Apostles. Visit includes art show and sale.
Discover Humanistic Buddhism at this welcoming cultural-spiritual centre. The temple seeks to foster peace and harmony among all peoples of the world. Explore the extensive facilities, including educational space, an English-Chinese library, a cultural museum and the Lotus Tea House. Tours every half hour begin at 10 a.m.
263 Queen Street South, Streetsville (905) 369-0500 www.thefranklinhouse.ca Architect: William Graydon and Peter Douglas; Year Built: 1855
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Franklin House, built in 1855 as a private residence, was purchased in 1859 by Bennet Franklin, a partner in Barber Brother's Toronto Woollen Mills. In 1877, the building was converted to a hotel and public house. In 2008, this two-storey brick structure with original exterior woodwork was renovated and turned into an enchanting Streetsville restaurant.
157 Lakeshore Road West,
Mississauga (905) 891-1777 www.freedomcentre.com Architect: George Carson and Walter Page; Year Built: 1894
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Oakville carpenter George Carson and Toronto stone mason Walter Page built the original brick structure in 1894 to house a Methodist church. It became First United Church in 1925. Around 1950, the red brick was covered with stone to match the large addition facing Peter Street. The building is now home to the Freedom Centre.
One of Mississauga’s oldest landmarks, built around 1830, the Regency-style Grange houses Heritage Mississauga (the Mississauga Heritage Foundation), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Mississauga’s rich heritage. This year marks its 50th anniversary! Tour the building, enjoy Heritage Showcase exhibitions and peruse local heritage resources.
820 Britannia Road West, Mississauga (905) 814-1600 Year Built: 1846; Rehabilitated 2010
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This house exemplifies the symmetry, order, materials and formality of the Georgian style, built circa 1848 on a 100-acre agricultural property granted to the Forster family. Heritage House Dental is a fine example of adaptive reuse, where a modern business embraces the heritage aspect of the building.
2200 South Sheridan Way, Mississauga (905) 403-8406 www.isna.ca Architect: Aslam Chaudhary; Year Built: 2001
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 4 p.m.
Step inside one of North America’s largest mosques, completed in 2001. Arabic calligraphy from the Qur’an adorns its interior walls. It houses a high school, banquet facilities, a funeral home and the headquarters of the Islamic Society of North America Canada. There is also an Islamic bookstore and much more.
1720 Barbertown Road, Mississauga (416) 537-7698 http://slovakcanadianculture.com Year Built: Founded, 1946; park redeveloped, 1967
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Explore a bit of Slovak culture in this unique private park! Canadian-Slovaks founded Koliba to establish an inviting place reminiscent of their home country. The extensive grounds include quaint cabins, a chalet-style dining hall, an outdoor stage, and picnic and recreational facilities. The site hosts, and is available for, summer festivities.
Terry Wilson, a lifelong resident, has spent years salvaging wood, doors, windows, furniture and other relics from the past century and a half to create a scaled-down version of Meadowvale Village. Visit re-creations of the village’s mills, schoolhouse and shops, including displays of interiors, as the past comes back to life.
300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga (905) 615-4244 www.mississauga.ca Architect: Edward Jones and Michael Kirkland; Year Built: 1987
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Civic Centre was designed in part as a tribute to Mississauga’s agricultural roots. The building’s façade represents a farm house, the Council Chambers represents a grain silo and the distinctive clock tower represents a windmill. The Civic Centre houses Mississauga’s government and business operations, and is the headquarters for Doors Open Mississauga!
The Greek-revival-style Mississauga Masonic Temple was built in 1838 as a church, its original frame hand-hewn from local materials by the Mississauga First Nations and local settlers. A new outer structure was added in 1927. The original church is now the Temple's lodge room.
The Credit Valley Lions Club built this working lighthouse in 1991. Visible from 15 miles out in Lake Ontario, it guides boaters and fishermen. Today, it houses the Port Credit Business Improvement Association. The deck offers a great view of the Credit River, as well as the beautiful harbour and the village of Port Credit.
4300 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga (905) 279-5878 www.TheRiverwoodConservancy.org Architect: Mathers & Haldenby; Year Built: 1919-20
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Explore the history and natural beauty of Riverwood, a 150-acre "urban wilderness and living laboratory." See W.R.P. Parker’s 1919-20 estate home ("Chappell House"), the 150 year-old MacEwan field station and MacEwan Barn. Take a guided interpretive walk through Riverwood. And enjoy the barbeque and perennial plant sale on the house lawn.
6056 Ninth Line (north of Britannia Road West), Mississauga (289) 997-2105 www.stjosephinebakhita.org Year Built: 1882
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Don’t miss this opportunity to see inside Mississauga’s newest bit of heritage! On land recently annexed from Milton, this church was founded by Irish settlers in 1823. The present brick Gothic revival structure was built in 1882. Today, St. Josephine Bakhita Parish uses the chapel to celebrate mass and hold meetings.
Meet at Streetsville Florist, 265 Queen Street, Mississauga Architect: Timothy Street; Year Built: 1825
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 1 to 4 p.m.; walking tour begins promptly at 1 p.m.
Streetsville has the largest number of historically designated buildings in Mississauga. The backbone of this community was its five major mill sites located along the fast-flowing Credit River. Timothy Street built a home for his family near his mill site in 1825. It is part of a concerted effort by the merchants and residents of Streetsville to ensure the heritage of the village remains evident.
4170 Riverwood Park Lane, Mississauga (905) 277-4313 www.visualartsmississauga.com Architect: du Toit Allsopp Hillier; Year Built: 2005
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Visual Arts Mississauga (VAM), Mississauga’s largest fine-arts organization, is a non-profit charitable organization founded in 1977. Located in an elegantly designed 2006 building in the 150 acres of wilderness known as Riverwood, VAM encourages appreciation of the visual arts through affordable educational programs, exhibitions, sales and the provision of workshop facilities.
46 Bay Street, Mississauga Architect: Abraham Blower; Year Built: 1910
Dates/Hours Open:
Saturday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Beginning in 2005, extensive renovations were undertaken to restore the 20th-century Dutch colonial revival-style Vonlanthen Residence. This two-storey red brick house, built in 1910, is not unusual in its scale but does stand out for its medium-pitch gambrel roof, horizontal siding in the front gable, front porch and bay window, and upper porch supported by wood columns.
