MISSISSAUGA, CANADA

Heritage Tour of the Old Port Credit Conservation District

Cycling Without Age – Mississauga
Old Port Credit Heritage Trishaw Tour
A One-Hour Journey Through Port Credit’s Village, Harbour & Waterfront Heritage
Duration: 60 minutes
Format: Guided trishaw heritage tour
Area: Old Port Credit Village Heritage Conservation District
Route concept: Approximately 3–4 km, using quieter residential streets and waterfront routes wherever practical
Starting/finishing point: Port Credit Lighthouse / waterfront area
Primary source: Heritage Mississauga, Port Credit Village – Heritage Tour map and heritage descriptions

 
1. Tour Purpose
This tour is designed specifically for Cycling Without Age – Mississauga, where the journey is as important as the destination.

Rather than attempting to visit all 19 locations shown on the Heritage Mississauga map, this one-hour experience concentrates on a small number of highly meaningful locations that can be connected into a comfortable trishaw journey.

The tour tells one continuous story:

Mississauga First Nations → the Credit River → the 1835 village → the harbour → sailing and stonehooking → village homes and businesses → churches and community life → today's Port Credit.

Old Port Credit was laid out as a planned village in 1835 by surveyor Robert Lynn. Its traditional street grid, relationship to the Credit River and Lake Ontario, and mixture of homes, institutions, commercial buildings and open spaces remain important elements of its heritage character. (Historic Places)

The location of Port Credit was in the 1700s, the land of the Mississauga jibwe Indigenous people. The location became used asa meeting place between the band and white traders, and the river was known to them as the Missinhe or "trusting creek". To the French and later the English the mouth was known as "Port Credit" and a trading post was established in 1720, where goods were traded or bought on credit. The earliest reference is on a map drawn in 1757 by La Broquerie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Credit