Lislehurst · Photo: Briantoronto · CC BY-SA 3.0

1historic place on the registers

History of Mississauga · Canada’s heritage registers

The registers record 1 historic place in Mississauga

Mississauga’s entry is Lislehurst (1885), a designated heritage property (part iv). A further one sits a short way past the edge of town. Its housing is mostly newer: 7.2% predates 1961, where the typical town has 18%. Wikidata knows 7 more provincial or municipal listings here that get no page, lacking an open statement or an encyclopedia article.

1885oldest building 1just outside

Historic places

Highest designations

National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings

Provincial and local listings

provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article

Oldest building

1885

the first construction date on its record

Homes built before 1961

7.2%

typical town: 18%

Through time

Back in time: Mississauga, 1877–1933

8 old photographs of the town, in date order. Tap any picture to see it full screen.

Confederation to 1900Peel Atlas pg 30 PN2019 21671-2Photo: J. H. Pope · Public domain

Confederation to 1900Peel Atlas pg 31 PN2019 01250Photo: J. H. Pope · Public domain

Confederation to 1900Peel Atlas pg19 Malton PN2019 21628-9Photo: J. H. Pope · Public domain

Confederation to 1900Peel Atlas pg20-21 Toronto Township Northern Part PN2019 21632-5Photo: J. H. Pope · Public domain

Confederation to 1900Pencil drawing of Meadowvale by Frederick H. BrigdenPhoto: Frederick H. Brigden · Public domain

School building on south side of Lakeshore Road, Port Credit, Ontario, circa 1908 — Boom yearsSchool building on south side of Lakeshore Road, Port Credit, Ontario, circa 19…Public domain

Boom yearsErindale Train Station 1910Public domain

The wars and betweenLakeview Park school photo 1933 PN2021 00126Public domain

Public domain or CC0, made before 1950, from Wikimedia Commons; old views of places can be drawings, prints or maps of their time. Each credit opens the image’s page.

How it began

Back to 1968: Mississauga’s first record

Behind the name Mississauga is Missisauga, tribals of the First Nations people in Northwestern Ontario. For the municipality of Mississauga itself, Wikidata records 1968, a date that can be a founding as much as a merger.

How it began: Wikidata (CC0).

The map

Where Mississauga’s history is

Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.

Provincial and local listings

Dots open their places’ pages; hover first to read the name.

The 1, by tier

1 Provincial and local listings

The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.

Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.

Provincial and local listings

One local listing in Mississauga

Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.

Designated heritage property (part IV) · 1885LislehurstPhoto: Briantoronto · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Commons file

Around the town

40 historic places within 25 km of Mississauga

By designation: 30 National Historic Sites, 6 provincial or municipal listings and 2 heritage railway stations. They belong to 20 towns, chiefly Downtown Yonge East, Yonge-Bay Corridor and Fort York-Liberty Village. At 14 km, “Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail/GO Transit) Station, Brampton, Ontario” in Downtown is the closest.

The 12 nearest, within 25 km

Former Canadian National Railways (VIA Rail/GO Transit) Station, Brampton, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1907–1908 · 14 km away, in Downtown

Postal Station “D”Recognized Federal Heritage Building · 1935–1937 · 18 km away, in Junction Area

St. Anne's Anglican ChurchNational Historic Site · 1907–1909 · 20 km away, in Little Portugal

Boston Presbyterian ChurchDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 1868 · 21 km away, in Georgetown

Gouinlock Buildings / Early Exhibition BuildingsNational Historic Site · 1904–1913 · 21 km away, in Fort York-Liberty Village

Fort York ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1935–1936 · 21 km away, in Fort York-Liberty Village

VIA Rail/Canadian National Railways Station, Georgetown, OntarioHeritage Railway Station · 1855–1857 · 22 km away, in Georgetown

Fort YorkNational Historic Site · 1813–1816 · 22 km away, in Fort York-Liberty Village

Toronto Island Airport Terminal BuildingNational Historic Site · 1938–1940 · 22 km away, in St Lawrence-East Bayfront-The Islands

Kensington MarketNational Historic Site · 1815–1816 · 23 km away, in Kensington-Chinatown

George Brown HouseNational Historic Site · 1875–1878 · 23 km away, in Kensington-Chinatown

SpadinaNational Historic Site · 1866–1914 · 23 km away, in Casa Loma

Just outside Mississauga: 1

Adamson EstateDesignated heritage property (part IV) · 100 m outside the town

Homes by age

Most of Mississauga’s homes went up from 1981 to 2000: 39%

Homes built from 2001 to 2015 make up 20% of Mississauga’s, against 15% in the typical town. From 2016 on, Mississauga built 3.4% of its homes, near the typical 4.1%. Over half of the homes in Mississauga were already standing by 2001.

7.2%

Before 1961

31%

1961–80

39%

1981–2000

20%

2001–15

3.4%

2016–21

MississaugaTypical town

2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.

Born here

Born in Mississauga, 1876 to 1909

At 81, Thomas Laird Kennedy outlived the rest, dying in 1959. The record holds 4 people born here before 1914. Best known is Joe Schleimer, with articles in 11 Wikipedia languages.

Melvin Ormond Hammond

Thomas Laird Kennedy

Morag Smith

Joe Schleimer

18501875190019251950

Joe Schleimer1909–1988 · Olympic wrestler

Thomas Laird Kennedy1878–1959 · Canadian politician

Melvin Ormond Hammond1876–1934 · Canadian photographer

Morag Smith1901– · Canadian comedian

Everyone born in Mississauga → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.

Neighbours

Mississauga and its neighbours

Town	People	Places	Oldest
Mississauga	764,597	1	1885
Creditview	10,972	0	—
DT Core	33,003	0	—
Roseborough	54,539	0	—
Uptown	12,244	0	—
Fairview	7,597	0	—
Hurontario	43,877	0	—

In brief

Mississauga in brief

The registers count 1 historic place in Mississauga. Its people of the past include Joe Schleimer (1909), Thomas Laird Kennedy (1878) and Melvin Ormond Hammond (1876). Little of its housing was standing by 1961: 7.2%, against 18% in the typical town.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

The federal register. Federal places come from Parks Canada’s directory, which counts National Historic Sites, federal heritage buildings, stations and lighthouses; their statements are the register’s own.
Protection. A National Historic Site designation recognises significance; it doesn’t by itself protect a building the federal government doesn’t own. Legal protection comes from provincial and municipal designations, whose own registers aren’t open data outside Québec.
People and events. Persons of national historic significance come with no location; a town gets one only by birthplace (name and both life years agreeing) or by one of its own places that bears the name and whose record tells the story. Events, which can’t be tied, are left out.
Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
Map points. Parks Canada publishes no coordinates, so federal places are pinned where Wikidata puts them.
The grade. There is no history grade: the page sets out the record and compares it with other towns.
The tiers. Tiers follow the designation: national recognition and classement first, other federal designations next, provincial and local listings last.

Questions about Mississauga’s history

How many historic places does Mississauga have on the registers?

Inside Mississauga: 1 historic place.

What is the oldest building in Mississauga?

Lislehurst, a Designated heritage property (part IV), begun in 1885.

How old are the homes in Mississauga?

7.2% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.

Why might a heritage building in Mississauga be missing here?

Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 7 more listings in Mississauga are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).

Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).