Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Moving Forward to Preserve the Past
Motivated by changes to provincial heritage policy, the City has taken a fast track to protect history before it’s lost. Three sites one this tour have been designated recently, and more are on the way.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

A Quiet Evening in Port Credit
Returning to port after a busy day of fishing or stonehooking, the lakeboat captains of 19th century Port Credit came home to this quiet, scenic community of friends and neighbours. 

Meet at Clarke Hall

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The Legend of “Nahnee”
Nahne-bah-we-quay urged the queen to let her indigenous community keep their homes, but it was along the Credit River that young “Nahnee” learned to respect the land she would fight so hard to protect.

Meet at the lighthouse

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

The Mystery of Bill Johnson’s Ice Hut
The west side was the home of the village’s first dairy and its oldest school . . . and that mysterious run-down shack across of the road from Riverside school.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Hiawatha-on-the-Lake
California Bungalows, English cottages, Dutch Revival homes and a lone Art Moderne masterpiece add to the architectural variety of this east-side Port Credit neighbourhood.

Meet at the old LCBO parking lot; 3 Elmwood Avenue North

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

The Story of the Stonehookers
Every town has its own unique story to tell. For Port Credit, that story is about the stonehookers. Their tall tales are not about shipwrecks, but of the teamwork and perseverance needed to make a living from the lake.

Meet at the lighthouse

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Growth and Change in Port Credit’s Industrial District
New homes and businesses are rising in Port Credit’s west end, where once steam bulldozers dug clay from the ground and steamships delivered oil from tropical islands.

Meet at Bone & Biscuit (175 Lakeshore W. - Unit 4)
This tour is sponsored by Bone & Biscuit – Port Credit’s source for healthy pet treats – so please bring your four-legged friends.

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Change at the Centre of the Village
Skyscrapers rose here in the 1970s. A second phase of upward growth began 40 years later, but recent political decisions may have slowed that grown again.

Meet at the cenotaph

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Moving Forward to Preserve the Past
Motivated by changes to provincial heritage policy, the City has taken a fast track to protect history before it’s lost. Three sites one this tour have been designated recently, and more are on the way.

Meet at the Farmers Market (at Port Credit library)

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Credit Grove: Port Credit’s First Suburb
Journey back 100 years to explore the first generation country homes that still line the streets of Port Credit’s first suburban middle-class neighbourhood.

Meet at Forest Avenue Public School

Saturday, August 2, 2025

A Quiet Day in Port Credit
Returning to port after a busy day of fishing or stonehooking, the lakeboat captains of 19th century Port Credit came home to this quiet, scenic community of friends and neighbours. 

Meet at the Farmers Market (at Port Credit library)

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Purchasing Port Credit
200 years ago, councillors of the Mississauga nation and the representatives of King George III forged a mutual agreement over ownership of what is now Mississauga.

Meet at the lighthouse

Saturday, August 9, 2025

The Legend of “Nahnee”
Nahne-bah-we-quay urged the queen to let her indigenous community keep their homes, but it was along the Credit River that young “Nahnee” learned to respect the land she would fight so hard to protect.

Meet at the Farmers Market (at Port Credit library)

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Port Credit’s Exclusive “4-H Club”
Out in the village’s west end, the Hill, Haney, Hoyt and Hobberlin families turned their summer homes into full-time residences. Two of these mansions survive.

Meet at Rhododendron Gardens, 660 Lakeshore Road West

Saturday, August 16, 2025

The Mystery of Bill Johnson’s Ice Hut
The west side was the home of the village’s first dairy and its oldest school . . . and that mysterious run-down shack across of the road from Riverside school.

Meet at the Riverside Public School

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Hiawatha-on-the-Lake
California Bungalows, English cottages, Dutch Revival homes and a lone Art Moderne masterpiece add to the architectural variety of this east-side Port Credit neighbourhood.

Meet at the old LCBO parking lot; 3 Elmwood Avenue North

Saturday, August 30, 2025

The Other Side of the Tracks
A century ago, when Toronto’s affluent families discovered Port Credit, our village’s exclusive suburb sprang up in the wilderness north of the village. 

Meet at the cenotaph

Saturday, September 6, 2025

The Story of the Stonehookers
Every town has its own unique story to tell. For Port Credit, that story is about the stonehookers. Their tall tales are not about shipwrecks, but of the teamwork and perseverance needed to make a living from the lake.

Meet at the Farmers Market (at Port Credit library)

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Growth and Change in Port Credit’s Industrial District
New homes and businesses are rising in Port Credit’s west end, where once steam bulldozers dug clay from the ground and steamships delivered oil from tropical islands.

Meet at Bone & Biscuit (175 Lakeshore W. - Unit 4)

This tour is sponsored by Bone & Biscuit – Port Credit’s source for healthy pet treats – so please bring your four-legged friends.

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Credit Grove: Port Credit’s First Suburb
Journey back 100 years to explore the first generation country homes that still line the streets of Port Credit’s first suburban middle-class neighbourhood.

Meet at Forest Avenue Public School

Saturday, September 27, 2025

Port Credit cenotaph rededication
To honour the 100th anniversary of our local memorial, Branch #82 of the Royal Canadian Legion will host a rededication ceremony to include Afghanistan veterans.

Meet at the Port Credit cenotaph

TOUR RELOCATED FOR THIS WEEK

Saturday, October 4, 2025

Grand Opening of Adamson Estate

With the recent announcement by the City of Mississauga that the historic Adamson Estate is opening to the public as a museum, I’m moving the location of the October 4 walk, so we can attend of the grand opening ceremony.

New Location: Meet at the Adamson Estate (85o Enola Avenue)

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Port Credit’s Exclusive “4-H Club”
Out in the village’s west end, the Hill, Haney, Hoyt and Hobberlin families turned their summer homes into full-time residences. Two of these mansions survive.

Meet at Rhododendron Gardens, 660 Lakeshore Road West