Ward 2 Councillor Pat Mullin

Ward 3 Councillor Maja Prentice

Ward 4 Councillor Frank Dale

Ward 5 Councillor Cliff Gyles

Ward 6 Councillor David Culham

Ward 7 Councillor Nando Iannicca

Ward 8 Councillor Katie Mahoney

Ward 9 Councillor Pat Saito

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Visit the City of Mississauga Home page and read about what the city is doing now to protect trees on private property - be sure to fill out the survey and leave your comments there too!

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  Bring friends and family to....
 
 

A Resident's Meeting

April 27, 2000

Regarding Tree Protection Bylaw draft and pilot projects in Mississauga   City staff will present the tree protection bylaw draft to the residents of Ward One this meeting. When  April 27, 2000   7:00 p.m. Where Cawthra Community Centre    Cawthra Road just north of Atwater    Every person's voice counts & you can be sure that developer's voices will ring loud.  Send an email to KarinAnn Brent at the city & let her know you would like to make a deputation. Don't let the term deputation throw you off.  It's just a formal way of saying "speak your piece".

 
 

A General Commitee / Council Meeting

May 17, 2000

Regarding Tree Protection Bylaw draft and pilot projects in Mississauga   City staff will present a tree protection bylaw draft at this meeting and City councillors will decide where to hold a pilot implementation of the law.  Come and have your say! When May 17, 2000   9:00 a.m. Where Mississauga City Hall, Council Chambers.    Every person's voice counts & you can be sure that developer's voices will ring loud.  Send an email to KarinAnn Brent at the city & let her know you would like to make a deputation. Don't let the term deputation throw you off.  It's just a formal way of saying "speak your piece". City staff will present the tree protection bylaw draft to the residents of Ward One this meeting.

 
 

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Keep an eye on your local newspaper. Respond. Write letters to the editor. This supportive letter was printed in the Mississauga News last fall.

 

Tribute to a Tree

As I turned the corner onto Front Street South  in Port Credit on Thursday, Sept 24, 1998, I  was stunned by the brutality evidenced in the  apparition in front of my eyes. Tree stood there  (its nudity only heightened by stark autumn  afternoon light) with its huge, mighty, barren  limbs stretching upward - as though screaming  into the sky -savaged by the whining chainsaws.  The sight of this waste and thoughtless  destruction will remain seared in my memory  forever. Only a day before, Tree had stood  there in all its magnificence, a symbol of  strength and endurance - set back in a lot that  borders the mouth of the Credit River.  It had  kept vigil for almost three hundred years - 300  years !! Imagine what stories it could have told  about our heritage - from silent canoes gliding  into the mouth of the river, through an  industrial explosion and into a chip generation.  How Tree must have mused over the antics  of mankind.  This dastardly deed demands some answers!  -Who ordered the chain saws and why was  this historical icon not included in the plans  that will restructure this land?  Wouldn't  'Tree Haven Harbour' have been a wonderful  name for the homesite to be constructed there?  -Where are the laws to ensure that this  wanton destruction of our past does not  continue! (last month it was the site up  Mississauga Road, just north of Lakeshore Rd,  this month, on Front Street - where next?)  -Who are the elected officials responsible for  the protection of our city's future and past?  -And where are we - the citizens who sit by  and let this happen and say nothing?   A brave few tried their best when they heard  of what was to happen.  The late TV news of  Weds, September 23, 1998 highlighted this  plight and told of a real hero who climbed Tree  in a valiant effort to thwart the ravage that was  to come. Thank you, courageous lady, for  Tree's hug into eternity and your demonstration  that one level of nature's creation deeply   respects another.   Thoreau, at the time Tree was probably just a  sapling, wrote his memorable essay "Civil  Disobedience" and I know he would have lent  credence to your bold and brave actions. In  years to come when your grandchildren ask  you why anyone didn't stop this disgraceful  event, you can look them squarely in the eye  and say "I DID MY BEST".  I wish I could  have had this honour.  Written with respect for the past and deep  regret for my presumption that, in Mississauga,  all our precious natural resources are  protected.                                                Carolyn D. Farr