Mississauga's Largest Collection of Historical Buildings

26. Public Utilities Commission Building (1876)

167 Queen Street South

In the early 1870s, the Wesleyan Methodists had outgrown their brick chapel at the corner of Maiden Lane and Church Street and it was sold to the Grangers, an agricultural organization, who later sold it to the public school board. A large brick addition was built during the 1880s and the school remained in operation until the 1930s. The old chapel had deteriorated over the years was demolished, but the brick schoolhouse was moved to its present location on Queen Street in 1939. The structure was used as a municipal building, a fire hall and as the headquarters of the Public Utilities Commission until 1977. The various changes that the building has undergone have left an interesting asymmetry in the arrangements of the windows. The small metal waterwheel on the grounds was taken from the municipal power plant which operated on the Credit River near the intersection of Church and Ontario Street, during the first half of the 20th century.