Port Credit Masonic Temple

Masonic Temple

47 Port Street

This building, dating to about 1845, has a fascinating connection to the early Methodist community.

Peter Jones, his brother John and Egerton Ryerson were important figures in the Methodist movement here. The earliest Methodist meeting places served both the Mississaugas and the developing settler community.

The building we're seeing today was moved to this location in 1894 and later became associated with the local Masonic lodge. 

One of the most important influences on Port Credit’s social and religious development was the introduction of Methodism. The primary leaders in the Methodist movement were Rev. Peter Jones, a Mississauga chief of Welsh and Native heritage, his brother John, and Egerton Ryerson, who would eventually establish Ontario’s public school system.

The Jones brothers began preaching, in 1826, to the Native Mississaugas, who erected a shelter to serve as a chapel and a school.  In 1828, the church was rebuilt as a log mission house, and then in the mid 1840s a new lime and lumber building was constructed on Lakeshore Road.  In 1894, this building was moved to its present location where it was used as a community hall. The local Masonic lodge bought and renovated the building in 1915.