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You don‘t have time to read through endless volumes of history books, you want to be a historic know-it-all now! Heritage Bytes explores the history, heritage, and culture, of Canada‘s 6th largest city. Each episode gives you a byte sized slice of the history of Mississauga from the beginnings over 10,000 years ago through milestones in history such as the War of 1812, the World Wars, and the development of a city through the amalgamation of lost villages. We look at the historic people, places, and events, that define our city today, including peering into the Darker Side of our history. Join us as we explore the historic connections to Mississauga and each other.
Episodes
Monday Jun 06, 2022
Monday Jun 06, 2022
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 Heritage Mississauga and the City of Mississauga’s Parks Department. It is a place where residents are invited to pay their respects to those who answered the call to action throughout our history. Some came home, some did not, but we and the plants and flowers here in Mississauga remember them. Always.
Heritage Mississauga choose a Garden of Remembrance to honour those who have served and those who have fallen because plants have always been the silent witnesses to our history. We give them meaning as they give us meaning. They connect us to our feelings whether of loss, honour, reverence, or remembrance, they connect us together.
Each flower in the garden commemorates the memory of those who were lost with their familiar fragrances, symbolism of hope, strength, perseverance, and peace, and as representations of our allies and citizens around the world who were, and continue to be, impacted by conflict.
We invite you to watch The Garden of Remembrance at the Grange and to take a moment to sit in the Garden to ponder the sacrifices that were made for the freedoms that we enjoy today.
#WeRemember #HeritageRemembers
Thank you to the Community Foundation of Mississauga and the City of Mississauga for their support to help us create a place of Remembrance and to commemorate all of those who have served.
Monday May 30, 2022
Monday May 30, 2022
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 Mickey McDonald once and for all. In the end, it might just be the events of a small-time bank robbery in Port Credit that seals his fate.
In today’s conclusion, the Mad Dog of Jarvis Street is re-dubbed Canada’s Most Wanted Criminal.
From the case files of Heritage Mississauga, this is… Mississauga Confidential.
The Season 2 Finale: Episode 12. The Public Enemy, Part Two: Mickey’s Adventures in Gangland
As always, dear listeners, thank you for listening and for your support.
Stay tuned for Season Three of Mississauga Confidential. Coming to Heritage Bytes in OCTOBER 2022.
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“Mississauga Confidential, A True Crime Podcast” is a Heritage Bytes podcast produced by Heritage Mississauga.
Written by Bryan Ho and Nicole Mair.
Research by Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Matthew Wilkinson.
An adaptation of this story by Sue Bretell first appeared in the Heritage News.
Video Production Team: Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Ryan Parks.
Mississauga Confidential is a Heritage Mississauga production. Heritage Mississauga is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to researching, recording and celebrating the history of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Your support helps create programming just like this.
For more information about Heritage Mississauga, and to become a member, please visit heritagemississauga.com and follow us on youtube, instagram and twitter.
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Music Credits:
“Fast Talkin” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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“Bass Walker” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
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 to ascend the ladder to the top of Toronto’s criminal underworld. Let us introduce you, dear listener, to Mickey McDonald, the mad dog of Jarvis Street.
From the case files of Heritage Mississauga, this is Mississauga Confidential.
“Mississauga Confidential, A True Crime Podcast” is a Heritage Bytes podcast produced by Heritage Mississauga.
Written by Bryan Ho and Nicole Mair.
Research by Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Matthew Wilkinson.
An adaptation of this story by James Walker first appeared in the Heritage News.
Video Production Team: Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Ryan Parks.
Mississauga Confidential is a Heritage Mississauga production. Heritage Mississauga is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to researching, recording and celebrating the history of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Your support helps create programming just like this.
For more information about Heritage Mississauga, and to become a member, please visit heritagemississauga.com and follow us on youtube, instagram and twitter.
Music Credits:
“Fast Talkin” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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“Bass Walker” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
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 beyond Toronto’s densely built borders. The everyday turmoil of the depression pushed people to their limits, and left another hopeful immigrant family in the crossfire. Even in the quiet village of Britannia, at the heart of Toronto Township, there is no reprieve from the cruelties of crime.
So, what happens when a masked gunman brutally tears apart a family? Tragedy and question marks.
From the case files of Heritage Mississauga, this is Mississauga Confidential.
“Mississauga Confidential, A True Crime Podcast” is a Heritage Bytes podcast produced by Heritage Mississauga.
Written by Bryan Ho and Nicole Mair.
Research by Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Matthew Wilkinson.
An adaptation of this story by James Walker first appeared in the Heritage News.
Video Production Team: Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Ryan Parks.
Mississauga Confidential is a Heritage Mississauga production. Heritage Mississauga is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to researching, recording and celebrating the history of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Your support helps create programming just like this.
For more information about Heritage Mississauga, and to become a member, please visit heritagemississauga.com and follow us on youtube, instagram and twitter.
Audio clip from the “Gang Busters” radio drama from archive.org. While Gerritt and Tuena Lammerse were listening to “Gang Busters” on the night of the crime described in this video, the episode that aired on April 6, 1938, is currently not available. A clip from a different episode was substituted and can be heard in this episode.
Music Credits:
“Fast Talkin” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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“Bass Walker” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
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 some way in the inquiry, that identified the lost of over 1000 Women and Girls over a 30 year period.
At Six Nations an art installation was organized titled “Walking With Our Sisters” which brought attention to the issue. Over 1800 Moccasin vamps were created to recognize those lost. The installation opened at the Gathering Place by the Grand in Ohsweken and is now travelling across Canada. Diane participated in this exhibition and tells her personal journey through the emotional experience.
Diane Smoke Thomas is Anishinabe of the Bear Clan from the Mississauga Nation. She was raised on the teachings of the ancestors and has practiced the traditional way of life in both her professional career and personal life. She is a strong advocate for cultural based teachings and is commissioned to create traditional regalia and items for special occasions using her own artistic designs.
Diane serves as Director and Chair of the Dibaajimowin Cultural Centre and makes her home near the Mississaugas of New Credit First Nation.
We encourage you to engage in the conversation and to feel free to ask questions during the Q&A session after the presentation.
Heritage Mississauga would like to thank the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Resilient Communities Fund for their financial support to help us bring Indigenous Conversations to a wider community through this webinar series.
For more information on Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls please visit:
https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/
For support:
Please visit the Government of Canada Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Page for information on aftercare, community gatherings or if you are a Party With Standing.
Contact number: 613-957-5153
An independent, national, toll-free support call line is available to provide support for anyone who requires assistance. This line is available free of charge, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Support Line 1-844-413-6649
Family Information Liaison Units (FILU)
If you have questions about your missing and murdered loved ones, FILU members work directly with families to gather information from government services and agencies, such as child protection, polices services and coroner’s offices, to address outstanding questions about the loss of their loved ones. For more information about the services they offer or to find a contact near you, visit the FILU webpage on the Department of Justice website.
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/fund-fi...
#MMIWG #IndigenousHeritage #Indigenous
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
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 Anishinaabe Grandmother Kim Wheatley is Turtle and Bear Clan from Shawanaga First Nation Reserve who carries the Spirit Name Shkoden Neegaan Waawaaskonen (Head or Leader of the Fireflower). She is a multi award winning speaker and published author who has presented locally, nationally and internationally, while also having appeared on television, radio, in books and in many news articles.
Kim currently provides Indigenous consultations, continues to organize events, writes for a local newspaper and is working on a new book.
We acknowledge that the land on which we meet today is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
We recognize the importance of this land and pay our respects to the Anishinaabe and other First Nations, Métis and Inuit past, present and future.
Heritage Mississauga would like to thank The Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Resilient Communities Fund for their financial support to help us bring Indigenous Conversations to a wider community through this webinar series.
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
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 asks the Creator to show her which medicines will help her people.
Through ceremonies she was told she was born to be a helper and a medicine woman like her Great Grandmother who assisted as a midwife to preparing community members for their spirit trip to the other side as well as bringing many children into the world in her community and other surrounding communities. As a child Kim helped her Nokomis harvest and gather medicines for her people, she was told as a young girl that this is what she is here for to carry on these traditions and knowledge. Kim’s Mishsomis was an Hereditary chief for Hiawatha for many years.
Kim Muskratt is a member of Hiawatha First Nation, Mississauga’s of Rice Lake. She sits with the Turtle Clan and is a life giver, water walker, medicine Kwe, Pipe Carrier, Knowledge Keeper, Story Teller and Grandmother. As a knowledge keeper she has dedicated her life to learning and passing her teachings and experiences on to the youth. Her traditional name is Waaseya Kwe which translated means Bright Light Woman which she is proud of the strength that is carried with this name. Waaseya Kwe travels along the red road living Mino Bimaadiziwin (the good life) and she continues to learn more about our Sacred Medicines and healing powers they bring while following in the same path as her ningichi-ookomis lived.
We acknowledge that the land on which we meet today is part of the Treaty Lands and Territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit.
We recognize the importance of this land and pay our respects to the Anishinaabe and other First Nations, Métis and Inuit past, present and future.
Heritage Mississauga would like to thank The Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Resilient Communities Fund for their financial support to help us bring Indigenous Conversations to a wider community through this webinar series.
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Note:
This episode discusses the scared medicines but does not replace the advice or treatments from your medical professionals. Please consult your doctor to ensure these scared medicines are safe for you.
#IndigenousConversations #IndigenousHeritage #SacredMedicines
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
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 were drawn to the rowdy roadhouses like bees to honey, and Clarkson’s Chicory Inn was the destination de jour for the top tier of Toronto Gangland’s malefactors. Headlining were Toronto Gangland heavyweights Big Bill Cook and the notorious Campbell Brothers—Oscar and Melville Campbell. When these title champions went head-to-head, sparks and bullets flew.
From the case files of Heritage Mississauga, this is Mississauga Confidential.
“Mississauga Confidential, A True Crime Podcast” is a Heritage Bytes podcast produced by Heritage Mississauga.
Written by Bryan Ho and Nicole Mair.
Research by Bryan Ho and Nicole Mair.
Video Production Team: Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Ryan Parks.
Mississauga Confidential is a Heritage Mississauga production. Heritage Mississauga is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to researching, recording and celebrating the history of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Your support helps create programming just like this.
For more information about Heritage Mississauga, and to become a member, please visit heritagemississauga.com and follow us on youtube, instagram and twitter.
Music Credits:
“Fast Talkin” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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“Bass Walker” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
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 the case files of Heritage Mississauga, this is Mississauga Confidential. Season 2, Episode 08. The Desperate Hours: Manhunt for a Cop Killer.
“Mississauga Confidential, A True Crime Podcast” is a Heritage Bytes podcast produced by Heritage Mississauga.
Written by Bryan Ho and Nicole Mair.
Research by Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Matthew Wilkinson.
An adaptation of this story by James Walker first appeared in the Heritage News.
Video Production Team: Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Ryan Parks.
Mississauga Confidential is a Heritage Mississauga production. Heritage Mississauga is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to researching, recording and celebrating the history of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Your support helps create programming just like this.
For more information about Heritage Mississauga, and to become a member, please visit heritagemississauga.com and follow us on youtube, instagram and twitter.
Music Credits:
“Fast Talkin” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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“Bass Walker” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
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, Rumbold was found brutally murdered in his car. Was the crime a random act of violence against an innocent man? Or had Rumbold's dark past finally caught up with him?
Philip Rumbold's mysterious murder was one of the first major crimes in a decade of vice, murder and gangsters, tangled in an intricate web of crime: welcome to Mississauga's dirty thirties.
From the case files of Heritage Mississauga, this is Mississauga Confidential.
“Mississauga Confidential, A True Crime Podcast” is a Heritage Bytes podcast produced by Heritage Mississauga.
Written by Bryan Ho and Nicole Mair.
Research by Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Matthew Wilkinson.
An adaptation of this story by Kayla Demers first appeared in the Heritage News.
Video Production Team: Bryan Ho, Nicole Mair and Ryan Parks.
Mississauga Confidential is a Heritage Mississauga production. Heritage Mississauga is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to researching, recording and celebrating the history of the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Your support helps create programming just like this.
For more information about Heritage Mississauga, and to become a member, please visit heritagemississauga.com and follow us on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.
Music Credits:
“Fast Talkin” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
“Bass Walker” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Clips from “Let George Do It” and “The Burns and Allen Show” radio plays are in the public domain and can be found on archive.org.