HISTORY
Timeline of Events
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1818 | ‘Second Mississauga Purchase’ from Mississauga Indians including Malton was purchased from the Mississauga Indians for 8,500 British Pounds. |
| 1819 | First settlers arrive in Malton. Richard Halliday names Malton after his birthplace in Yorkshire, England. |
| 1828 | Malton’s first school was built and was made of log |
| 1850 | Malton now had a general store, a cobbler, a hotel, and a blacksmith. |
| 1854 | Grand Trunk Railroad line was put through Malton, increasing desirability for businesses in Malton |
| 1858 | roughly 500 people lived in Malton including a shoemaker, wagon maker, carriage maker, saddler and a blacksmith. A new brick school was built on Harrow Street and named Malton Public School |
| 1859 | Brampton selected over Malton as Peel County Seat allowing for more facilities to be built in Brampton rather than Malton. |
| 1867 | Malton’s population had dwindled down to 200 as Brampton became more and more popular with the construction of a court, jail, and poorhouse. |
| 1914 | Malton made a police village allowing it to make its own by-laws. |
| 1923 | Malton’s first log school built in 1828 was torn down and a newer, more modern school was built. |
| 1937 | The Port Authority of Toronto starts construction of an airport in Malton. |
| 1939 | The National Steel Car Company of Montreal opens an aircraft factory in Malton. |
| Early 1940’s | Victory School was formed on Victoria Crescent |
| 1942 | National Steel Car Company of Montreal in Malton taken over by the federal government and renamed the Victory Aircraft Company, producing the Lancaster Bomber among other planes. |
| 1945 | Victory Aircraft Company is sold to the A. V. Roe Company. |
| 1948 | Malton’s first separate (Catholic) school was Our Lady of the Airways on Beverly Street and was opens. |
| 1949 | The ‘Jetliner’, North America’s first jet passenger plane, is manufactured at A. V. Roe. |
| 1952 | The replacement school for Malton’s first school is demolished. |
| 1952 | a new Malton Public School was created on Airport Road. |
| 1953 | Plans by A.V.Roe for the CF105 Avro Arrow begin. |
| 1954 | The land including where Westwood Mall and Westwood Secondary School currently lays is sold to developers. |
| 1957 | Ridgewood Public School on Cambrett Street opens due to an influx of homes being built in the area. |
| 1958 | Malton Airport improved to increase capacity. |
| 1959 | Feburary 20 ' ‘Black Friday’ - Prime Mininster John Diefenbaker ordered everything related to the Arrow be destroyed as the jet was ‘obsolete and too expensive.’ |
| 1960’s | Victory school is shut down due to the creation of the new Malton Public School on Airport Road. |
| 1961 | ' Truck full of airplane feule explodes in Malton, requiring Firefighers from several communities to assist in putting out the blaze. |
| 1964 | New Malton Airport begins opens. |
| 1964 | Marvin Heights Public School on Redstone Road was opens as 150 homes were built in the Marven Heights are of Malton. |
| 1968 | Corliss Public School on Corliss Crescent opens as one thousand new homes are built in the Westwood Subdivision. |
| 1968 | Lancaster Senior Public School on Netherwood Road opens as the Board of Education for the Town of Mississauga determined that students need a smoother transition into high school through elementary school by way of a senior school. |
| 1968 | Westwood Secondary School on Morning Star Drive East of Goreway opens. |
| 1969 | ' Gas Main explodes on Airport and Derry roads destroying many historical shops in that location. |
| 1969 | Dunranken school on Dunranken Drive opens. |
| 1969 | schools came under direction of Peel County Board of Education |
| 1971 | ' International Centre founded in Malton. |
| 1971 | Darcel Avenue Senior Public School on Darcel Avenue opens due to an ever-increasing population in the area. |
| 1972 | Malton Airport opens a second terminal due to increased demand |
| 1974 | ' GO station built in Malton giving Maltonians quick access to downtown Toronto. |
| 1974 | ' Malton becomes part of the City of Mississauga as Word Five. |
| 1974 | Brandon Gate Public School on Brandon Gate road opens. |
| 1974 | Peel County Board of Education renamed to Peel Board of Education |
| 1977 | Morning Star Secondary School on Morning Star Drive West of Goreway opens. |
| 1981 | Malton Public School on Airport Road is closed after a massive decrease in students due to the opening of many schools that exist today. |
| 1984 | Malton Airport renamed Lester B. Pearson International Airport. |
| 1987 | ' Old Malton Public school is purchased by the Sikh community to form a place of worship known as the ‘gurdwara,’ and led to the increase in Sikh population seen through the late 80’s to the present. |
| 1991 | Lester B. Pearson International Airport opens Terminal 3 |
| 2000 | Westwood Secondary School is renamed Lincoln M. Alexander Secondary School after the closure of Morning Star Secondary School (I was a graduate in the final class of Morning Star Secondary). |
| 2004 | New Terminal 1 opens. |
| 2004 | April 5, Terminal 1 is demolished. |