Mississauga Library System
Peel Biographies A-F

The Peel Biography Scrapbooks, located in the Local History Room at the Central Library, contain local newspaper clippings highlighting the activities of a wide cross-section of people from the City of Mississauga and the surrounding Region of Peel .

Search for a name in the index below (listed alphabetically by surname), or select a letter from the chart below. Visit the Local History room to view the clippings available about the person.

A B C D E F

  

A

ABBOTT, Tony
Member of Parliament for Mississauga

ABERDOUR, Serenity
Artist

ADAMS, Brian
Peel Regional Police Officer of the Year

ADAMS, Chalmers
Film producer

ADAMS, Eve
Former Ward 5 Councillor and present Mississauga-Brampton South MP

 

ADAMSON, Anthony
Architect and planner, author, and municipal politician

ADAMSON, J. Marshall
Mayor of Streetsville

ADAMSON, Peter
Photographer, actor and painter

ADAMSON, Tommy
Late Erindale local historian

AFANIH, Sonja
Student

AGOSTINI, Elio
Publisher and community leader

AGOSTINI, Lucio
Late conductor, composer and arranger

ALEXANDER, Lisa
Synchronized swimmer and Olympic silver medalist

ALI, Nizam
Murder victim

ALLEN, Ernie
Founder of Mississauga Chamber of Commerce

ALLEN, Leslie
Radio station owner, convicted of fraud

ALLIN, Norman
Late cinematographer and artist

ALLlSON, James
Member of pioneer family

ALTON, Janis
Peace and women's activist

ALTON, Melanie
Cross-cultural student

AMODEO, Domenic
Canadian national hockey team member

AMOS, Viola
Newspaper staff person

ANAKA, Greg
Advocate for children with learning disabilities

ANDERSON, Bill
New General Manager of the Mississauga News and the Brampton Guardian

ANDERSON, W.J.
Public works commissioner

ANDREAS, Richard
Ship builder

ANDREWS, H.T.G.
Chief judge of the Provincial Court, Family Division

ANGUS, Lesley
Actress

ANTONOFF, Igor
Ukrainian-born long-time resident of Port Credit, Igor Antonoff came to Canada after the second World War, first to Toronto, and then to Mississauga where he founded a chain of discount appliance stores, known as Honest Boy Discounts

ANWAR, Faisal
Mississauga artist commissioned by the Art Gallery of Mississauga to collect stories from residents for an exhibition to be held at the AGM later in 2013

APPLEFORD, Robert
Medical officer of health

ARCHIBALD, David
Social worker, expert in substance abuse issues

ARDIEL, Eva
Teacher, Old Britannia Schoolhouse

ARMSTRONG, Jeffrey
Minor sports volunteer

ARTYMKO, Michael
Builder

ASKA, Warabe
Author and illustrator of children's books

ATKINS, Albert
Writer of letters to the editor

AU-YEUNG, David
Community volunteer

 

 

B

BADGER, John
Publisher and poet

BAGNELL, Diane
Artist and conservationist

BAILEY, Angela
Amateur athlete and premier sprinter

BAILEY, John E.
Teacher and education superintendent

BAINS, Piara Singh
Community volunteer

BAIRD, Audrey
School principal

BALIVA, Frank
Sports editor

BALKWILL, Chazz
Hairstylist

BANNISTER, John
Artist

BARKER, David
Aerobatic pilot

BARNHART, Karl
Police superintendent and artist

BARNUM, John
Conductor, Mississauga Symphony Orchestra

BARRETT, Frieda
Mississauga's 1993 Citizen of the Year

BARRY, Frank
Port Credit artist

BARTON, Bill
Former Mississauga Aquatic Club swimming coach

BATEMAN, Bill
Winner in 2003 of the Paul Harris Fellowship from the Streetsville Rotary Club

BASSETT, Wayne
Former CEO of Samuel, Son & Co. retires after 40 years with the company

BEAMISH, Jean
CNIB volunteer

BEAN, Frank
Regional chairman

BEATTY, James Miller
Lawyer and opponent of hockey violence - Obituary

BECKING, Margaret
Community activist - Obituary

BEER, Bruce
Liberal Member of Parliament for Peel, 1962-1972

BEISEL, Paul
Interim Mayor of Brampton

BELL, Reverend Donald
United Church minister and founder of Distress Line

BELL, Jessie
President, South Peel Hospital Auxiliary

BELLEGHEM, Jack
President, Mississauga Hockey League

BELLEGHEM, Mildred
Late South Peel teacher and author of "A Letter from Home"

BELTRAN, Samantha
Local volleyball player wins full athletic scholarship at Tennessee State University

BELTZNER, Eileen
Parent-infant educator and author

BENNER, Tom
Artist

BENNET, Dwight
Artistic director Royal Opera Canada and Opera Mississauga

BENNETT, Gus
Former chief pilot of Air Canada's 747 fleet

BENNETT, Laurie
Obituary for Laurie Bennett, founding director of Hospice of Peel

BENTLEY, Gordon
Former Mississauga Fire Chief

BENTLEY, Lisa
Triathlete and teacher

BERGHAMMER, Richard
Leather artist

BERRY, Carol
Malton community volunteer

BERRY, Susan
Psychologist wins the 2013 Mary Neville Award, presented annually by Peel Children's Centre

BETTS, Jim
Lyricist and composer

BIGWOOD, Peter
Erindale resident, designer of transit buses

BISS, Betty
School board trustee

BLACKBURN, Dan
Long-time Port Credit resident, motivational speaker, youth mentor and athletic coach

BLAIR, Rev. Maury
Youth centre director and counsellor

BLAKE, Eleanor
Public relations officer for Toronto Township centennial celebrations

BLENKARN, Don
Conservative Member of Parliament for Peel, later Mississauga, 1972, 1974, and for Mississauga South, 1979-1993

BLUETT, Leonard
Former golf course superintendent

BOARETTI, Louis
Company vice-president and Library Board chairman

BOILEAU, Gerard
Wood-carver

BOILEAU, Michele
International judo competitor

BOLE, Rev. J. Sheridan
United Church minister and author of The church mouse

BOLTA, Igor
Dentist and international consultant

BOND, Pat
Artist

BONDAR, Roberta
Astronaut and scientist

BOOTH, Larry
Special projects co-ordinator

BOUCHIER, William
President, Toronto Township Red Cross

BOULT, Doug
Photographer and teacher

BOURNE, Minnie
Nonagenarian member of the Erindale Price family

BOWDEN, Ted
Businessman active in professional and community associations - Obituary

BOWMAN, Gary
Marksman

BOYD, Mabel
Founder, Mississauga Girls' Hockey League and baseball organizer

BRACE, Rick
Programming executive at The Sports Network (TSN)

BRACK, Bill
Sports car dealer and competition driver

BRADLEY, Alan
Chairman, Hydro Mississauga

BRADLEY, Ida Lynd
Centenarian and family historian

BRAITHWAITE, Jack
Fire chief, Toronto Township

BRANDS, A.J.
Political and community volunteer

BRANNING, Magdalena
Pianist

BRATHWAITE, Harold
Director, Peel Board of Education

BRAYLEY, Dr. Jim
Obstetrician

BREWITT, Ross
Author

BRISCOE, Al
Steel guitarist in Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins Band

BROOKING, William
Community volunteer

BROWN, Cecil
Spitfire pilot in World War II

BROWN, Gregory
Professor and chairman of neurosciences and professor of psychiatry

BROWN, Jack
Director, Peel Board of Education

BROWN, Paul
Teacher and poet

BROWNLEE, Stuart
President, Canadian Admiral

BROWNRIDGE, Earl
President, American Motors Canada and chairman, Mississauga Police Commission

BROWNRIDGE, Gary
Hobby centre owner

BROWNRIDGE, Lucy
Wife of Earl Brownridge

BRUECKNER, Joseph
Medical biochemist and plant breeder

BRYAN, Don
Design consultant and ventriloquist

BUCHAN, LYNNE
Writer

BUDAY, Tamas
Athlete

BUECHLER, Max
Owner, Brethour Real Estate

BULLARD, Mike
Nighttime television talk show host

BURCH, Tiffany Lisa
Child model

BURGESS, Sherry
Windsurfer

BURKE, Margaret
Teacher and community volunteer, Centennial medal recipient

BURNELL, Art
Newspaper columnist

BURNS, Danielle
Student and accident victim

BURNS, Rita
Psychic

BURROWES, Helen
Long-time Malton resident and community volunteer, named 2014 Mississauga Citizen of the Year

BURROWS, Doug
Chief, Peel Regional Police

BUSBY, David
Anglican priest, politician and director, Street Haven

BUSH, Brenda
Pianist and vocalist

BUSH, Robin
Designer

BUTT, Don
Family physician

BUTT, Terry
Businessman and former Mississauga city councillor

BUTTS, Ed
Author

 

C

CAINE, Jean
Owner, radio stations, CHWO & CJMR

CAIROLI, Joe
Artist

CALBES, Eleanor
Opera star

CALDWELL, Gil
Artist

CALDWELL, John
Former Port Credit councillor and mayoral candidate

CALVERT, JOHN
Long-time Policy Planning Director, John Calvert, retires after a 40-year career with the City of Mississauga

CAMERON, Danny
Former drug addict and centre fielder for the Mississauga Sabres

CAMERON, Scott
Illustrator of book, "Beethoven Lives Upstairs"

CAMILLERI, Charlie
Late Lakeview resident, a pivotal figure in the Canadian music business, inducted into the Mississauga Music Walk of Fame

CAMPBELL, Denise
Fire survivor

CAMPBELL, Dorothy
Businesswoman

CAMPBELL, Doug
Horticulturist

CANDY, Bill
Musician

CANDY, Doug
Minister, St. Luke's Anglican Church

CARDARELLI, Ettore
Toronto District President, National Congress of Italian Canadians

CARLSON, Catherine
Policewoman

CARROLL, Wendy
Real estate salesperson who was attacked by two convicted murderers in Lakeview

CARTER, Rubin
Boxer and advocate for the wrongfully convicted

CARUK, Fred
Designer and manufacturer of vehicle hand controls

CASTRO, Dolores
Mississauga resident, recipient of 2012 Sam McCallion Award for Volunteer of the Year

CATON, Charlotte
Old-time resident, Dundas St.W.

CATAUDELLA, Alberto
Founder, Mississauga Canadian Italian Association

CATTO, James
Medal of Bravery recipient

CHAO, Angela
Mississauga TV camera assistant suffered a concussion and used the art of pained ceramics to deal with depression after her injury

CHAPPELL, Hyliard
Former Liberal M. P. for South Peel and one-time owner of Riverwood (the Chappell Estate)

CHARETTE, Michael
Political activist
see also HOULTON, Michael

CHARTERS, Clarence
Newspaper publisher

CHARTERS, Reginald
WWI veteran and newspaperman

CHASE, Archie
Athlete

CHATFIELD, Tom
Painter

CHERKAS, Lillian
Retiring Medical Officer of Health, Region of Peel

CHERNY, Al
Fiddler on Tommy Hunter Show

CHERRY, Don
Hockey coach and daughter's kidney donation to her brother

CHEVRIER, Don
Late sportscaster

CHISHOLM, Grace
Mental health crusader

CHRISTENSEN, Ethel
Art teacher, Gordon Graydon High School

CLARK, Charles
General manager of Scouting operations in Mississauga

CLARK, Chelsea
Obituary for Mississauga Paralympian who won two gold medals in wheelchair sprints at the 2004 Paralympics in Greece

CLARKSON, Betty
Author, historian

CLARKSON, Grant
Municipal Councillor, pioneers' descendant

CLEGG, Alix
Former Secretary-Treasurer, Park Royal Community Association

CLEMENTS, Edward
Actor

CLEWES, Richard
Ontario Bicentennial Medal winner and late Chairman of Credit Valley Hospital

CLINE, Mary
Citizen of the Year, 1987

CLIPPERTON, Gary
Musician, Ontario Bicentennial Medal winner

CLIPPERTON, Graydon
High School principal, retired

CLOKE, John
Obituary for Port Credit dentist who founded the Credit Valley Dramatic Society

COATES, Robert
Former Area Representative, Park Royal Community Association

COCHRANE, Kent
Obituary for former Mississauga Library volunteer whose memory, impaired as a result of a traumatic brain injury, was studied by Toronto scientists

COFFEY, Paul
National Hockey League defenceman, born in Weston, brought up in Malton, Coffey played for the Edmonton Oilers, the Pittsburgh Penguins, and other teams before retiring. He was inducted into the Mississauga Sports Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Malton Arena is named after him.

COGHLAN, Michael
Composer

COLE, Fay
Community volunteer

COLE, Peter
Peel Medical Officer of Health

COLEMAN, Shirley
Mississauga artist

COLLEY, Elizabeth
Former Streetsville Branch Librarian

COLLINS, Kelly
Fashion model

COLLINS, Robert
Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief

CONOVER, Edward
Former Peel County Board of Education Chairman

COOK, Dave
Mississauga Councillor and race car driver

COOLE, Margaret Stephenson
Award-winning needlework artist

COOPER, Russell King
Obituary for Russ Cooper, former administrator of Black Creek Pioneer Village, President of the Peel County Historical Society and founder of the museum which became the Peel Heritage Complex, and a professional photographer for the Toronto Telegram

CORBASSON, Carmen
Obituary for former Ward I Councillor

CORBETT, Barbara
Educator

CORCORAN, Jeannette
Real estate saleswoman

CORNER, Bill
President, Mississauga Hockey League

CORREA, Bruce
Mississauga resident and Scarborough firefighter cited for bravery 1998

COSCO, Frank
Mississauga fashion designer

COSTA, Terry
Winner of 1999's best Emerging Talent in Theatre

COURTNEY, Kristin
First Mrs. Mississauga pageant winner

COURTNEY, William
Toronto Township Industrial Commisssioner

COUSINS, Howard
Obituary for the founder of the Port Credit Yacht Club

COVENTRY, Dr. Allan F.
Naturalist

COX, Kenneth
Referee-in-chief, Mississauga Hockey League

COX, Tracey
Artist

CRAIG, David
Artist, designer of reverse of 1984 Silver Dollar

CRAIG, Jim
Peel Regional Police Detective Sergeant retires

CRAMP, Harmony
Child TV star

CRAWFORD, Gail
Author of A Fine Line : Studio Crafts in Ontario, 1930 to Present, and winner of the 1999 Mississauga ARts Council Award for Literature

CRAWLEY, Michael
Author

CRESWELL, H.A.
Executive, Canada Steamship Lines

CREWE, William
First surgeon in Cooksville and area

CRICKMORE, Evelyn
Journalist and historian

CROSS, Francine
Environmentalist

CROSSLEY, Alan
Artist

CROSSLEY, Constance
Artist and author

CROWLE, Deborah
Artist

CROZIER, Jim
Commissioner of Social Services for Peel

CULHAM, David
Teacher and councillor

CULLEN, Mary Ellen
Child welfare award winner

CUMMINS, Ray
Arctic farming researcher

CURREY, Fawn
Politician and baseball umpire

CURTIN, Lynn
Minister, Erindale United Church

 

D

DALE, Frank
Councillor, Ward 4

DALE, Tom
Obituary for former councillor and community volunteer

DALY, Karen
Duke of Edinburgh gold award winner

DANIEL, Paul
Teen author

DARRAGH, Samuel
Judge, Provincial Court

DAVIDSON, Jill
Corporal, Canadian Army

DAVIS, Neil
Teacher

DAVISON, Frank
Obituary for community volunteer

DEAKON, Wally
Obituary for former politician

DEAN, Lanny
Minister, Erindale United Church - fatal accident

DEAR, Ken
Obituary for former Ward 9 Councillor and Meadowvale West resident

DEATH, James Ivan
Obituary for member of Dixie pioneer family

DE CARTERET, Laura
Actress and producer

DE COURCEY, Rowan
Singer

DE JONG, Gerry
Mississauga artist and former Chair of Visual Arts Mississauga

DE LA ROCHE, Mazo
Author of the Jalna series

DE SILAGHI, Helen
Telepathic artist

DE SOTTO, Peter
Musician and opera singer

DEVITT, H.E.A.
Manager, Toronto International Airport

DICKENSON, Margaret
Host of popular show, "Margaret's Sense of Occasion" on Rogers Community Television

DIEHL, Fred
Actor, broadcaster and producer

DISTELMEYER, Wally
Former coach, Port Credit Figure Skating Club

DOBKIN, Dr. Martin
First mayor of City of Mississauga

DOERING, Charles
CFRB Radio news commentator

DOERING, Lyle
Volunteer, Citizen of the Year, 1984

DOHERTY, Denny
Star of musical group, The Mamas and Papas

DOHERTY, Ingrid
Obituary for Ingrid Doherty, senior salesperson, Mississauga Business Times

DOHEY, Mary
Air Canada stewardess, recipient of the Cross of Valor

DONCASTER, David
Citizen of the Year, 1983

DONEVA, Ralitza
Tennis star

DORIS, Roger
Obituary for former Mississauga News entertainment columnist

DOWLING, Ed
Former transit boss who oversaw the development of Mississauga's transit system, was inducted into the Canadian Urban Transit Association's Hall of Fame in November 2012

DOWLING, Frank
Obituary for former first mayor of the Town of Streetsville

DRENNAN, Bennet Lyle
Former Town of Mississauga Police inspector

DUFFIELD, Ida
Obituary for Mississauga Senior Citizen of the Year, 1990

DUMOUCHEL, Maureen
Mississauga Transit's Operator of the Year, 1994

DUNCAN, Alvin
Obituary for prominent black Oakville resident, Alvin Duncan, former RCAF radar operator, expert in Black history and descendant of the Duncan family who came to Oakville via the Underground Railroad.

DUQUETTE, Ronald
Former communications officer, S.B. McLaughlin Associates, Ltd.

DURAND, James
Obituary for Director of Public Relations, Ontario Hydro

DURIE, Sally
Artist, owner of Rivercrest Gallery

DUTTON, Hazel
Artist

DYCHE, Bill
Obituary for community volunteer

DYSON-GREGORY, John
President of Canadian Broomwade Ltd.

DZUIRAN, Kathyrn
Artist

 

E

EALEY, Chuck
Quarterback, Canadian Football League

EALEY, Damon
Quarterback, Meadowvale Falcons

EARLY, Jim
Bus driver, Mississauga Transit

EASTON, Cheryl
Mississauga Citizen of the Year, 1984

EASTON, Kenneth
Veterinarian, Ontario Humane Society Mobile Clinic

EATON, Darryl
Trumpet player and composer

EBERHARDT, Lindsay
Liver transplant recipient

ECHLIN, Sarah
Competitor, Canadian Figure Skating Championships

EDDIE, Ann
Former Head, Mississauga Central Library

EDDY, Rev. Earl
Author and retired minister of Christ Church United

EDWARDS, Elsie
Senior Citizen of the Year, 1986

ELIK, Mike
Leading Canadian Tire dealer in Mississauga takes early retirement from his Heartland store

EMERSON, John and Sandra
Streetsville residents, honoured for their long-term commitment to the preservation of Mississauga's heritage

ENGLAND, Jane
Writer of letters to newspapers

ENGLANDER, Lawrence
Rabbi of Solel Congregation since 1973 and Erin Mills Kinsmen Citizen of the Year, 1980

ETTIENNE, Dolores
Actress

EVERETT, Bert
Teacher, Four Corners Square Dance Club

 

 

F

FARKAS, Anna
President, South Peel Canadian Cancer Society

FAVA, Joe
Host, CHWO Radio Show

FAVRETTO-POST, Edda Maria
Mississauga author who survived a traumatic brain injury

FEDESOFF, Lindsay
Mississauga figure skater

FEDORUK, Larry
Comedian and CFTR radio disc jockey

FINCH, Leonard, W.
Prominent Mississauga developer-builder of United Lands Corporation, and builder of Sheridan Park Research Community

FINA, Emilio
Former Meadowvale resident and celebrated tenor releases his debut album, O Sole Mio

FINLAYSON, Gordon
Obituary for Ontario educator

FINLAYSON, Jessie
Public school teacher, retiring after 44 years of teaching

FINNIGAN, Andrew
Theatre actor, director and graphic designer

FIRMAN, Joyce
Canada's first woman letter carrier

FISHER, Jim
Former paratrooper in D-Day invasion

FLEMING, Bert
Late general manager, Hydro Mississauga and Anglican Award of Merit winner

FLEMING, Brian
Former Dufferin-Peel Separate School Board Director

FLEMING, Louise
Miss Mississauga, 1981

FLETCHER, Samantha
"Tommy" (The Who) star

FLOWERS, Verna
Late environmentalist and chairman of APPEAL (Association of Peel People Evaluating Land)

FLYNN, Gary
Medical research fund-raiser

FLYNN, Ilze
Environmental artist

FOLEY, Hubert
Obituary for vice-president of Metroland Printing and Publishing

FOLEY, Jim
Canada's Wonderland dancer

FOX, Paul W.
Former Principal, Erindale College

FRANCIS, Diane
Ex-Mississauga News reporter moves from the Toronto Star to the Sun

FRANK, James
Undercover drug detective

FRANKOFF, Kevin
Rookie comedian with Second City troupe

FRASER, Jack
Elected President of the Canadian National Exhibition in 1963

FRASER, Jackie
Clarkson resident and volunteer, winner of the 2005 Sam McCallion Award

FRASER, John
Former Director with Peel Board of Education, Progressive Conservative candidate in Mississauga Centre, and actor

FRATIA, Salvatore
Tuba soloist with the Mississauga Symphony Orchestra

FREEMAN, Robert
Curator of the Art Gallery of Mississauga, appointed February 2001

FRID, Sandra
Student chosen in 1980 to participate in an American-based cultural exchange program called Up with People

FROMM, Paul
Applewood Heights Secondary School teacher investigated for white supremacist activities

FULLERTON, Ann
Watercolour artist and teacher