Port Credit BIA Historic Walking Tours Return!

Join Historian Richard Collins for our first tour of the season, "The Legend of Nahnee" on June 10, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.

Nahne-bah-we-quay urged the queen to let her indigenous community keep their homes, but it was along the Credit River that young “Nahnee” learned to respect the land she would fight so hard to protect.

Meet at the Port Credit Lighthouse (105 Lakeshore Road W).

Tour starts at 7:00 p.m. sharp and run for 1.5 hours.

Tours are FREE and we encourage you to tip your tour guide!

Well-behaved leashed dogs are welcome on the tour!

2025 Schedule:

• Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.: The Legend of “Nahnee”
  Nahne-bah-we-quay urged the queen to let her indigenous community keep their homes, but it was along the Credit River that young “Nahnee” learned to respect the land she would fight so hard to protect.

  Meet at the Port Credit Lighthouse.

• Walk Postponed: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.: The Mystery of Bill Johnson’s Ice Hut: 
  The west side was the home of the village’s first dairy and its oldest school . . . and that mysterious run-down shack across of the road from Riverside school.

  Meet at the  Port Credit Lighthouse

• Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 700 p.m.: Hiawatha-on-the-Lake
  California Bungalows, English cottages, Dutch Revival homes and a lone Art Moderne masterpiece add to the architectural variety of this east-side Port Credit neighbourhood.

  Meet at the old LCBO parking lot; 3 Elmwood Avenue North

• Tuesday, July 8, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.: The Story of the Stonehookers
  Every town has its own unique story to tell. For Port Credit, that story is about the stonehookers. Their tall tales are not about shipwrecks, but of the teamwork and perseverance needed to make a living from the lake.

  Meet at the Port Credit Lighthouse

• Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.: Growth and Change in Port Credit’s Industrial District
  New homes and businesses are rising in Port Credit’s west end, where once steam bulldozers dug clay from the ground and steamships delivered oil from tropical islands.

  Meet at Bone & Biscuit (175 Lakeshore W. - Unit 4)
  This tour is sponsored by Bone & Biscuit – Port Credit’s source for healthy pet treats – so please bring your four-legged friends.

• Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.: Change at the Centre of the Village
  Skyscrapers rose here in the 1970s. A second phase of upward growth began 40 years later, but recent political decisions may have slowed that grown again.

  Meet at the Port Credit Cenotaph Vimy Park

• Saturday, July 26, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.: Moving Forward to Preserve the Past
  Motivated by changes to provincial heritage policy, the City has taken a fast track to protect history before it’s lost. Three sites one this tour have been designated recently, and more are on the way.

  Meet at the Port Credit Farmers Market (at the Port Credit Library)

• Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.: Credit Grove: Port Credit’s First Suburb
  Journey back 100 years to explore the first generation country homes that still line the streets of Port Credit’s first suburban middle-class neighbourhood.

  Meet at Forest Avenue Public School

• Saturday, August 2, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.: A Quiet Day in Port Credit
  Returning to port after a busy day of fishing or stonehooking, the lakeboat captains of 19th century Port Credit came home to this quiet, scenic community of friends and neighbours.

  Meet at the Port Credit Farmers Market (at Port Credit Library)

• Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.: Purchasing Port Credit
  200 years ago, councillors of the Mississauga nation and the representatives of King George III forged a mutual agreement over ownership of what is now Mississauga.

  Meet at the Port Credit Lighthouse!

• Saturday, August 16, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.: The Mystery of Bill Johnson’s Ice Hut
  The west side was the home of the village’s first dairy and its oldest school . . . and that mysterious run-down shack across of the road from Riverside school.

  Meet at the Riverside Public School

• Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.: Hiawatha-on-the-Lake
  California Bungalows, English cottages, Dutch Revival homes and a lone Art Moderne masterpiece add to the architectural variety of this east-side Port Credit neighbourhood.

  Meet at the old LCBO parking lot; 3 Elmwood Avenue North

• Saturday, August 30, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.: The Other Side of the Tracks
  A century ago, when Toronto’s affluent families discovered Port Credit, our village’s exclusive suburb sprang up in the wilderness north of the village.

  Meet at the Port Credit Cenotaph Vimy Park

• Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.: The Story of the Stonehookers
  Every town has its own unique story to tell. For Port Credit, that story is about the stonehookers. Their tall tales are not about shipwrecks, but of the teamwork and perseverance needed to make a living from the lake.

  Meet at the Port Credit Farmers Market (at Port Credit Library)

• Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.: Growth and Change in Port Credit’s Industrial District
  New homes and businesses are rising in Port Credit’s west end, where once steam bulldozers dug clay from the ground and steamships delivered oil from tropical islands.

  Meet at Bone & Biscuit (175 Lakeshore W. - Unit 4)

  This tour is sponsored by Bone & Biscuit – Port Credit’s source for healthy pet treats – so please bring your four-legged friends.

• Saturday, September 20, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.: Change at the Centre of the Village
  Skyscrapers rose here in the 1970s. A second phase of upward growth began 40 years later, but recent political decisions may have slowed that grown again.

  Meet at the Port Credit Farmers Market (at Port Credit Library)

• Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:00 p.m.: Credit Grove: Port Credit’s First Suburb
  Journey back 100 years to explore the first generation country homes that still line the streets of Port Credit’s first suburban middle-class neighbourhood.

  Meet at Forest Avenue Public School

• Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 11:00 a.m.: Purchasing Port Credit
  200 years ago, councillors of the Mississauga nation and the representatives of King George III forged a mutual agreement over ownership of what is now Mississauga.

  Meet at the Port Credit Farmers Market (at Port Credit Library)