The stories of our past should be collected, explored and written inclusively, utilizing the knowledge and experiences from all of those who call Mississauga home.

By the 1970s, Malton was at the centre of Mississauga’s race relations.

Today, Mississauga’s Black population is incredibly diverse. Black immigrants in Mississauga trace their roots to a variety of places across the globe.

In 2006, Heritage Mississauga undertook an arduous task trying to trace our earliest Black residents on the landscape of what we would now call Mississauga. This initial research and subsequent projects have been able to give us a robust understanding of Black history in historic Mississauga in the 19th century.