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, Naomi
Wife of M.P., Tony Abbott

ABBOTT, Tony
Member of Parliament for Mississauga

ABERDOUR, Serenity
Artist

ADAMS, Brian
Peel Regional Police Officer of the Year

ADAMS, Chalmers
Film producer

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
Orchestra conductor

ALEXANDER, Lisa
Synchronized swimmer

ALI, Nizam
Murder victim

ALISAUSKAS, Ona
Artist

ALLEN, Ernie
Founder of Mississauga, Chamber
of Commerce

ALLEN, Leslie
Radio station owner, convicted of fraud

ALLIN, Norman
Painter

ALLlSON, James
Member of pioneer family

ALTON, Janis
Peace and women's activist

ALTON, Melanie
Cross-cultural student

AMODEO, Domenic
Hockey player

AMOS, Viola
Newspaper staff person

ANAKA, Greg
Advocate for children with learning disabilities

ANDREAS, Richard
Ship builder

ANDREWS, H.T.G.
Judge

ANDERSON, W.J.
Public works commissioner

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

APPLEFORD, Robert
Medical officer of health

ARCHDEKIN, Joyce
Wife of Mayor of Brampton

ARCHER, Walker
Supporter of historical preservation

ARCHIBALD, David
Social worker, expert in substance abuse issues

ARDIEL, Eva
Teacher, Old Britannia Schoolhouse

ARMBRO Brothers
Cattle and standardbred breeders and transportation contractors

ARMSTRONG, Jeffrey
Minor sports volunteer

ARTYMKO, Michael
Builder

ASKA, Warabe
Artist and children's book illustrator

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 primier sprinter

BAILEY, John E.
Teacher and education superintendent

BAINS, Piara Singh
Community volunteer

BAIRD, Audrey
School principal

BALIVA, Frank
Sports editor

BALKWILL, Chazz
Hairstylist

BALL, Jennifer and Jessica
Child actors

BANNISTER, John
Artist

BARANOWSKY, Oksana
Dentist and president of Zonta

BARBER, Bill
Director, Peel Museum and Art Gallery

BARKER, David
Aerobatic pilot

BARNETT, John
Army officer, lawyer and restorer of Warren Clarkson homestead

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

BATEMAN, Robert
Wildlife artist

BEAMISH, Jean
CNIB volunteer

BEAN, Frank
Regional chairman

BEATTY, James Miller
Lawyer and opponent of hockey violence

BECK, Carla
Entrepreneur

BECKING, Margaret
Community activist

BECKSTEAD, Bryan
Marathon runner

BEEHOO, Ronald J.
Inventor of the Amphicat

BEER, Bruce
Member, Parliament for Peel

BEISEL, Paul
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"

BELTZNER, Eileen
Parent-infant educator and author

BENEDIKT, Bozidar
Filmmaker

BENNER, Tom
Artist

BENNET, Dwight
Artistic director, Mississauga City Centre Opera

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
Fire chief, Mississauga

BENTLEY, Lisa
Triathlete and teacher

BERGHAMMER, Richard
Leather artist

BERMAN, Ursula
Mother of film director, Brigitta Berman

BERRY, Carol
Malton community volunteer

BETTS, Jim
Lyricist and composer

BIGGART, Merle
Lacrosse and hockey volunteer

BIGWOOD, Peter
Erindale resident, designer of transit buses

BISS, Betty
School board trustee

BLAIR, Rev. Maury
Youth centre director and counsellor

BLAKE, Eleanor
Public relations officer for centennial celebrations

BLENKARN, Don
Member, Parliament for Mississauga South

BLUETT, Leonard
Golf course superintendent

BOARETTI, Louis
Company vice-president and Library Board chairman

BOEHNERT, Ed.
Military intelligence agent and arena
manager

BOILEAU, Gerard
Wood-carver

BOILEAU, Michele
International judo competitor

BOLE, Rev. J. Sheridan
United Church minister and writer

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

BOWDEN, Ted
Businessman active in professional
and community associations

BOWMAN, Gary
Marksman

BOYD, Mabel
Girls' hockey and baseball organizer

BRACE, Rick
Programming executive at the Sports Network

BRACK, Bill
Sports car dealer and competition driver

BRADLEY, Alan
Chairman, hydro commission

BRADLEY, Bette
Journalist and editor

BRADLEY, Ida Lynd
Centenarian

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

BROOKING, William
Community volunteer

BROWN, Cecil
Spitfire pilot

BROWN, Frank
Manager, Peel Branch of the Ontario
Humane Society

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

BROWN, Jack
Director, Peel Board of Education

BROWN, Mary
Chairman, Ontario Board of Censors

BROWN, Paul
Teacher and poet

BROWN, Richard J.
Maintenance Superintendent, Mississauga Board of Education

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

BULL, William Perkins
Millionaire writer and preserver of Peel history

BULLARD, Mike
Nighttime television talk show host

BURCH, Tiffany Lisa
Child model

BURGESS, Sherry
Windsurfer

BURKE, Margaret
Teacher and community volunteer

BURNELL, Art
Newspaper columnist

BURNS, Danielle
Student and accident victim

BURNS, Rita
Psychic

BURRITT, David, Alan
Scout award winner

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 Mississauga city councillor

BUTTS, Ed.
Author

 

 

C

CAINE, Jean
Owner, radio stations, CHWO & CJMR

CAIROLI, Joe
Artist

CAJA, Irene
Ceramics teacher

CALBES, Eleanor
Opera star

CALDWELL, Gil
Artist

CALDWELL, John
Former Port Credit councillor and mayoral candidate

CAMERON, Danny
Former drug addict

CAMERON, James
Treasurer, Boy Scouts

CAMERON, Scott
Illustrator

CAMPBELL, Denise
Fire survivor

CAMPBELL, Dorothy
Businesswoman

CAMPBELL, Doug
Horticulturist

CAMPBELL, Robert Scott
Missing man

CANDY, Bill
Musician

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

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

CARLETON, Sue
Teddy bear collector

CARLSON, Catherine
Policewoman

CARR, Philip
Household Cavalryman

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

CARTER, Rubin
Boxer

CARUK, Fred
Master welder

CASEY, Len
Program director, Ontario Place

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

CATAUDELLA, Alberto
Founder, Mississauga Canadian Italian Association

CATTO, James
Medal of Bravery recipient

CHAPPELL, Grace
Wife of Federal election candidate,
Hyliard Chappell

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

CHARBONEAU, Joan
Woman doctor of the 1970's

CHARETTE, Michael
Political activist

CHARTERS, Clarence
Newspaper publisher

CHARTERS, Reginald
WWI veteran and newspaperman

CHASE, Archie
Athlete

CHATFIELD, Tom
Painter

CHERKAS, Lillian
Peel Medical Officer

CHERNY, Al
Fiddler on Tommy Hunter Show

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

CHEVRIER, Don
Sportscaster

CHISHOLM, Grace
Mental health crusader

CHRISTENSEN, Ethel
Art teacher, Gordon Graydon High School

CLARKE, Basil
Former solicitor, City of Mississauga

CLARKSON, Betty
Author, historian

CLARKSON, Grant
Municipal Councillor, pioneers' descendant

CLEGG, Alix
Executive, Park Royal Community Association

CLEMENTS, Edward
Actor

CLEMES, Pat
Artist

CLEWES, Richard
Ontario Bicentennial Medal winner

CLINE, Mary
Citizen of the Year, 1987

CLIPPERTON, Graydon
High School principal, retired

CLIPPERTON, Gary
Musician, Ontario Bicentennial Medal winner

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

COATES, Robert
Executive, Park Royal Community Association

COGHLAN, Michael
Composer

COFFEY, Paul.
National Hockey League defenceman, born in Weston, brought up in Malton, Coffey played 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.

COLE, Bill
Skydiver

COLE, Fay
Community volunteer

COLE, Peter
Peel Medical Officer of Health

COLEMAN, Shirley
Mississauga artist

COLLETT, Elaine
Food editor, Chatelaine Magazine

COLLEY, Elizabeth
Former Streetsville Branch Librarian

COLLINS, Kelly
Fashion model

COLLINS, Robert
Peel Regional Police Deputy Chief

COMLY, J. Ashton
Old-time Clarkson resident

CONOVER, Edward
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

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

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

CROOK, Donald
Artist

CROSS, Francine
Environmentalist

CROSSLEY, Alan
Artist

CROSSLEY, Constance
Artist and author

CROWLE, Deborah
Artist

CROZIER, Jim
Social worker

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

DALE, Tom
Councillor and community volunteer

DALY, Karen
Duke of Edinburgh gold award winner

DANIEL, Paul
Teen author

DARRAGH, Samuel
Judge

DAVEY, Chuck
Community volunteer

DAVIDSON, Jill
Corporal, Canadian Army

DAVIS, Bill
Psychic profiler

DAVIS, Neil
Teacher

DAVISON, Frank
Community volunteer

DEAKON, Wally
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

DERRY, Ramsey
Book editor

DESOTTO, Peter
Musician and opera singer

DESILAGHI, Helen
Telepathic artist

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

DIGGINS, John
Assistant Consul-General, United States General Consulate, Toronto

DINGLE, Adrian
Artist

DISTELMEYER, Wally
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

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

DONCASTER, David
Citizen of the Year, 1983

DONEVA, Ralitza
Tennis star

DORIS, Roger
Mississauga News columnist

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

DRENNAN, Bennet
Mississauga Police inspector

DRENNAN, Rick
Newspaper columnist

DUCK, Alfred
Port Credit Minor Hockey League supporter

DUFFIELD, Ida
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
Communications officer, S.B. McLaughlin Assoc. Ltd.

DURAND, James
Director of Public Relations, Ontario Hydro

DURIE, Sally
Artist, owner of Rivercrest Gallery

DUTTON, Hazel
Artist

DYCHE, Bill
Community volunteer

DYKSTRA, Von
Shop owner

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
Head, Mississauga Central Library

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

EDWARDS, Elsie
Senior Citizen of the Year, 1986

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 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

FARMERY, Mary
Director, Armagh Maternity Home

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

FELLOWS, Ron and Rob
Auto racing brothers

FERGUSON, Ian
Lakeview student-participant in Operation Crossroads Africa

FIELD, Saul
Toronto artist-painter and engraver

FINCH, Leonard, W.
Prominent Mississauga developer-builder of Sheridan Park Research Community

FINKLE, Ralph
Founder, Canadian Medic Alert Association

FINLAYSON, Gordon
Ontario educator

FINLAYSON, Jessie
Public school teacher

FINNIGAN, Andrew
Theatre actor, director and graphic designer

FIRMAN, Joyce
Canada's first woman letter carrier

FISHER, Doug
Liberal M.P., Mississauga North

FISHER, Jim
D-Day participant

FIX, Mary
Toronto Township reeve

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

FLEMING, Brian
Dufferin-Peel Separate School Board Director

FLEMING, Louise
Miss Mississauga, 1981

FLETCHER, Samantha
"Tommy" (The Who) star

FLOWERS, Verna
Environmentalist and chairman of APPEAL (Assoc. of Peel People Evaluating Land)

FLYNN, Gary
Medical research fund-raiser

FLYNN, Ilze
Environmental artist

FOGDEN, Eleanor
Community activist

FOLEY, Hubert
Newspaperman

FOLEY, Jim
Canada's Wonderland dancer

FOSTER, Mrs. Archibald
Patron of Hearts and art collector

FOSTER, Tom
Century farm owner and Caledon local historian

FOX, Paul W.
Principal, Erindale College

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

FRANK, James
Undercover drug detective

FRANKLIN, Wendy
Advertising convener with Pollution Probe and Peel Board of Education substitute teacher

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

FRASER, Marilyn
Publisher (1989) of Cab and Crystal, a magazine devoted to rock and mineral collecting

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