Glitz, Glamour & Greatness – Honouring Mississauga’s Heritage Champions
Heritage Mississauga is thrilled to announce that nominations for The Credits 2025 are officially open! This year, we’re turning back the clock to the dazzling Roaring 20s – where jazz ruled the airwaves, flappers danced the Charleston, and Art Deco glamour reigned supreme.
Now’s your chance to recognize the individuals, groups, and organizations who have preserved, promoted, and elevated Mississauga’s rich history and heritage. If you know someone who has gone above and beyond to safeguard our stories, celebrate our culture, or uplift our community, honour them with a nomination!
Why Nominate?
Celebrate the remarkable work of those shaping Mississauga’s legacy
Show gratitude to the individuals keeping our city’s history alive
Be part of a prestigious evening where award recipients will be recognized in front of community leaders, city officials, and passionate heritage supporters
Nomination Deadline: August 31, 2025
Learn more & submit your nomination
Join us for a night of roaring elegance, Gatsby-style grandeur, and unforgettable celebrations as we honour Mississauga’s Heritage Heroes in true 1920s fashion!
Celebrate gardening and explore your garden’s potential at Mississauga’s Library’s 11th anniversary of the Seed Library.
February 25, 2025
Starting at 3 p.m., after the daytime festivities, the Seed Library form will open, allowing residents to apply for free open-pollinated and non-GMO seeds. Residents can look forward to a selection of tomato, bean, and marigold seeds and other plant varieties.
What
The launch event of Mississauga’s Seed Library featuring free workshops, gardening specialists on site to provide advice, and activities for the whole family.
When
The launch event will take place on March 1 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Where
Hazel McCallion Central Library
Level 2
301 Burnhamthorpe Rd. W.
Mississauga, ON L5B 3Y3
Cost
Free – no registration required
Open to all ages
Make a seed donation
The Seed Library also encourages seed donations to promote its self-sustaining model. At the end of the growing season, residents are invited to harvest their seeds and return a portion to the library.
Donations can be made at any library location, ensuring that our community continues to thrive sustainably. Please note that only open-pollinated heirloom seeds (non-hybrid, non-GMO) that are pesticide-free and less than four years old will be accepted. Open-pollinated heirloom seeds are seeds that come from plants that have been grown and saved over many generations. They are called “open-pollinated” because they are pollinated naturally by wind, insects, or other natural means, rather than by controlled methods.
Donated seeds should be clean and labelled with the seed type, year grown, and the location where they were cultivated. We urge donors not to save seeds from hybrid plants, as these will not produce true-to-type offspring.
More information
To learn more about the Seed Library launch event, the application form, or donation guidelines, please contact seed.library@mississauga.ca or visit our website at mississaugalibrary.ca/seeds. An event listing is also available on Eventbrite for those wishing to reserve a spot and receive event updates. Join us in celebrating the joy of gardening and community at the Seed Library launch event!
Apply today and help shape Mississauga’s music scene
February 24, 2025
This grant provides funding to offset eligible expenses associated with hosting live music events and is open to for-profit applicants, including artists, venue operators, promoters, bars, restaurants and other potential music event hosts. For first-time applicants or those who haven’t applied for City funding in the last two years, attending an information webinar is a mandatory part of the application process.
The Live Music Grant program is part of the City’s Music Strategy, which aims to increase the presence of live music events in Mississauga, while helping create new spaces for live music performances.
Register for a webinar
Two sessions available:
- Thursday, March 6 from 12 to 1 p.m. Register online
- Wednesday, March 26 from 6 to 7 p.m. Register online
Once registered, participants will receive an email with details on how to attend and access the webinar.
Application process
All grant applications must be submitted online through the City’s grants portal. The deadline for the Live Music Grant is Friday, March 28, 2025 at 4:30 p.m.
The Live Music Grant is funded by the Municipal Accommodation Tax.
For more details, please review the City’s application guidelines.
Showcasing heritage across Ontario from February 17 to 23, 2025
February 19, 2025
Throughout the week and beyond, the City of Mississauga invites the community to learn and reflect on how heritage is conserved, promoted and commemorated within our City, and how current programming helps to preserve our past and shape the future.
Heritage in Mississauga
Mississauga is dedicated to conserving the history of our city and takes pride in the past. Home to more than 500 designated heritage properties city-wide, these unique places are located in three Heritage Conservation Districts: Port Credit, Meadowvale and Streetsville – nestled between houses and buildings across various neighbourhoods, each telling the stories of our city’s past.
Additionally, Mississauga has more than 600 registered archaeological sites, some of which date back 10,000 years ago and our Museums are home to 25,000 unique artifacts.
Heritage properties
Built resources, such as historic houses, bridges, conservation districts, cultural heritage landscapes and archaeological resources, are considered to be heritage properties. The Ontario Heritage Act defines how a heritage property is identified, designated, protected and conserved. When heritage approval is required for any property alterations within Mississauga, important steps are required in order to preserve the property’s historical landscape. Learn how to apply and what funding is available.
Designated Heritage Property Grant
Own or recently purchased a heritage property? Owners can apply for funding to support the conservation, repair or restoration of a designated heritage property. Projects must show how they are using best practices to protect and conserve the heritage property. Learn more
Take part in Heritage Week programming
- Guided tours offered at Benares Historic House and Bradley Museum
- Registered programs at Benares Historic House and Bradley Museum
- Browse the Museums’ collections
- View our historic image galleries at the Museums and Library
Helpful resources
- Learn when heritage approval is required
- How to prepare your heritage application
- Understanding the heritage application review process
- Heritage Advisory Committee – this group meets on a regular basis to make recommendations to Council about heritage properties and cultural landscapes in the City, including identifying properties and research.
88 groups and initiatives will receive support for programming and services in various areas.
February 12, 2025
A total of 88 groups and initiatives will receive support for programming and services in the areas of sports, youth initiatives, older adult initiatives, theatre, dance, visual arts and other community services. This funding also includes Culture Projects Grants, which support projects that explore and integrate art into urban surroundings, providing unique opportunities to experience art outside traditional galleries, theatres and other artistic spaces.
Residents can also look forward to the spring intake of the Live Music and Small Project Matching Grants. The Live Music Grant provides funding to help offset the costs of hosting for-profit live music events, while the Small Project Matching Grant funds projects that increase resident engagement and enhances opportunities for residents to participate in events and activities at the neighbourhood level.
Community Grant Program
This program provides annual and multi-year grants to Mississauga-based, not-for-profit community groups to deliver programs and services that keep Mississauga residents active, healthy and engaged in their communities.
Approved grants:
*Indicates multi-year funding
- Active Adult Centre Mississauga: $9,600
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel Inc.: $10,000
- Blooming Boulevards: $10,000
- Breakfast With Santa Foundation: $10,000
- Cruisers Sports for the Physically Disabled: $10,000
- Citizens for the Advancement of Community Development: $10,000
- Ecosource: $109,863*
- Erin Mills Youth Centre: $58,000*
- Global 180 Student Communications Inc.: $9,980
- Heart Comonos: $9,698
- Learning Disabilities Association of Peel Region: $10,000
- Malton Black Development Association: $10,000
- MIAG Centre for Diverse Women & Families: $10,000
- Mississauga Sports Council: $122,500*
- Music For Every Child: $10,000
- The Mississauga Youth Action Committee: $2,790
- Pak Pioneers Community Organization of Canada: $9,950
- Peel Multicultural Council: $10,000
- Port Credit Lawn Bowling Club: $8,000
- Safe City Mississauga: $310,142*
- Senior Tamils Society of Peel: $10,000
- Skills For Life: $10,000
- The Dam: $80,000*
- The Riverwood Conservancy: $369,859*
- The International Soccer: $10,000
- Tong Le Senior Association: $7,410
- Unity in the Community Centre of Mississauga Inc.: $5,000
- Volunteer MBC: $40,000*
Arts and Culture Grant Program
This program supports emerging and established, not-for-profit, professional and community-based arts, culture and heritage organizations in Mississauga. The grant supports the development of exemplary arts and culture programs, and services that improve participation, knowledge, understanding and an appreciation of arts, culture and heritage for residents of Mississauga.
Approved grants:
*Indicates multi-year funding
- Art Gallery of Mississauga: $471,600*
- Arts on the Credit: $15,000
- Crane Creations Theatre Company: $200,000
- CreativeHub 1352: $100,000
- Eagle Spirits of the Great Waters: $19,999
- Ensemble for French: $2,400
- Fashion Circuit Series Inc.: $17,000
- Figurative Expressions Life Drawing Group: $2,800
- Frog in Hand Productions Inc.: $165,000
- Heritage Mississauga: $391,690*
- Hispanic Canadian Arts and Culture Association: $19,999
- Meadowvale Music Theatre: $12,500
- Mississauga Arts Council: $471,600*
- Mississauga Big Band Jazz Ensemble: $3,087
- Mississauga Children’s Choir: $44,000
- Mississauga Chinese Arts Organization: $22,500
- Mississauga Choral Society: $62,000
- Mississauga Festival Choir: $38,000
- Mississauga Music: $19,999
- Mississauga Potters’ Guild: $19,999
- Mississauga Theatre Alliance: $10,000
- NeoVoce Philharmonic Choir: $6,000
- Orchestras Mississauga: $275,100*
- Sampradaya Dance Creations: $190,000*
- Sawitri Theatre Group: $140,000
- Studio 145 Initiative (Coop 145): $19,999
- Theatre Unlimited Performing Arts: $19,999
- The Canadian Arabic Orchestra: $120,000
- The Chamber Music Society of Mississauga Inc.: $112,500
- Visual Arts Mississauga: $275,100*
- Youth Troopers for Global Awareness | Studio.89: $66,000
Cultural Festivals and Celebrations Grants
This grant provides funding to offset expenses associated with providing a clean and safe venue for the presentation of arts, heritage and cultural festivals, and celebrations to residents and visitors. This grant supports a range of events that reflect the City’s many cultural traditions.
Approved grants:
*Indicates multi-year funding
- International Film Festival of South Asia Toronto: $15,000
- Mississauga Italfest: $50,000
- Malton Celebrates Canada Day: $13,500
- Mississauga Latin Festival: $19,900
- Mississauga Polish Days Festival: $19,999
- Mississauga World Music Festival: $14,896
- Mosaic – South Asian Festival of Mississauga: $150,000
- Muslimfest: $70,000
- Paint the Town Red: $105,000
- Philippines Festival Mississauga: $60,000
- The Streetsville Founders’ Bread and Honey Festival: $105,000
- Streetsville Christmas in the Village: $15,000
- Living with Wellness – Arts Festival: $15,000
- Discover Egypt Heritage Festival: $19,999
- Saigon Park Group Saigon Park Anniversary: $10,000
- Tastes of South East Asia : $15,000
- The Classical: Celebration of world music: $5,000
- The Egyptian Coptic Festival: $7,500
Culture Project Grants
This grant supports organizations, art collectives and Business Improvement Areas (BIAs) to create temporary, site-specific arts and culture projects that reimagine and activate urban spaces throughout Mississauga.
Approved grants:
- Blackwood Gallery: $5,000
- The Canadian Arabic Orchestra: $5,000
- Frog in Hand Productions Inc.: $5,000
- Kaleidoscope Chinese Performing Arts Society: $5,000
- Crane Creations Theatre Company: $5,000
- MonstrARTity Creative Community: $5,000
- Youth Troopers for Global Awareness | Studio.89: $5,000
- Indus Community Services: $5,000
- Sheridan Homelands Ratepayers’ Association: $700
Mississauga is hosting an in person open house for the proposed new official plan. Join us to ask questions and hear from our City Planning team.
February 14, 2025
What
- Official Plan in person open house
- Hear from Mayor Parrish about the City’s plan for growth and housing initiatives
- Talk to City planners about the goals of the Official Plan
- Light refreshments will be provided
When
- Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Time: 6 – 8 p.m.
- Location: Mississauga City Hall, Great Hall, 300 City Centre Drive
How to participate
- Visit our website to register for the open house.
- While registration is not mandatory, we encourage residents to register to help us accommodate all guests and communicate important updates about the open house.
Prepare for the open house
- Review the complete Official Plan by visiting Your Say – Official Plan Review
- Watch the virtual Official Plan meeting from January 23, 2025.
Background
- The Official Plan covers key areas like transportation, housing, culture, heritage, the environment, and the economy.
- As required by the Ontario Planning Act, the City reviews and updates the Official Plan every 10 years to meet Mississauga’s changing needs.
- Public feedback has played a key role in shaping the proposed updates, which focus on expanding housing options, enhancing community services, protecting the environment, and planning for long-term growth, as the Official Plan will guide Mississauga’s development through 2051.
- The proposed new Official Plan will come into effect once it is adopted by City Council and approved by the Province of Ontario.
- To learn more, visit mississauga.ca/officialplan.
Please see the following road closures for the 2025 Mississauga Marathon. Local access for residents will be maintained along the route where full road closures are not in place.
Race route link:
https://www.racepoint.ca/maps/mississauga.html
Full road closures – Marathon weekend
Saturday, April 26, 2025 – 7:00am to Sunday, April 27, 2005 – 1:00pm
Duke of York Blvd between City Centre Dr and Burnhamthorpe Road (southbound curb lane only) *access to Civic and Library parking will be maintained on the Saturday*
Sunday, April 27, 2025
- Burnhamthorpe Road. All WB lanes between Hurontario and Erin Mills Pkwy. 6:30 am to 11:30 am. EB lanes closed at Erin Mills Parkway.(eastbound traffic on Burnhamthorpe Rd will be permitted from Promontory Crescent to Hurontario Street)
- No crossing of Burnhamthorpe Road NB or SB. 6:30 am to 11:30 am.
- NB and SB on Mississauga Road between Burnhamthorpe Road and Springbank Road – 7:00 am to 10:30 am
- Mississauga Rd. between Indian Road and Lakeshore Road NB lanes only. 7:00 am to 11:00 am
- Mississauga Rd between Eglinton Avenue and Burnhamthorpe Road – local access only. Southbound vehicles on Mississauga Road will be turned around at Bridlepath
- Erin Mills Parkway at Dundas Street – closed to EB traffic from 7:00am to 10:30am
- Dundas at Erindale Park closed to WB traffic from 7:00am to 10:30am. Church access only.
- Duke of York between Burnhamthorpe and Princess Royal. 4:00 am to 1:00 pm
- Duke of York between Princess Royal and Rathburn. 6:30 am to 8:30 am
- Living Arts between Burnhamthorpe and Princess Royal. 4:00 am to 1:00 pm (the two condos on L.A. undergrounds are not impacted.)
- Living Arts between Princess Royal and Rathburn. 6:30 am to 8:30 am
- City Centre Drive between Duke of York Blvd and Kariya Gate – 6:30am to 8:30am
- Kariya Gate between City Centre and Burnhamthorpe Rd – 6:30am to 8:30am