Saint Peter's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Mississauga, Ontario

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Get directions 6056 Ninth Line
Mississauga, Peel Regional Municipality, Ontario Canada

Coordinates: 43.55603, -79.76233
(289) 997-2105
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Note: This cemetery is located on the east side of Ninth Line, just north of Brittania Road West, in an area known as the Ninth Line Corridor (i.e. between Ninth Line and Hwy 407). From its inception until January 1, 2010, it was considered part of Halton County, then the Regional Municipality of Halton.

Effective January 1, 2010, due to a municipal boundary realignment between the Region of Halton and the Region of Peel, land in the Ninth Line Corridor became part of the Region of Peel. As a result, the cemetery is no longer part of the Town of Milton, in the Regional Municipality of Halton, but is now part of the City of Mississauga, in the Regional Municipality of Peel.

As early as 1818, Irish Catholic immigrants were making homes on the 8th and 9th Concessions in what was originally part of Trafalgar Township in Halton. The area became known as the "Catholic Swamp".

In 1819, Bartholomew O'Connor and Charles O'Hara walked the forty miles to Dundas and persuaded a Father O'Reilly to come to Trafalgar to celebrate mass. Settlers from many miles around converged on the area to receive the sacraments for perhaps the first time since they had left Ireland.

Visits by traveling priests continued sporadically until 1823, when a congregation was officially established and a log church built upon land donated by Daniel Hyland. The log church was replaced with a frame church building in the 1850s, which in turn was remodeled and bricked in 1882.

The cemetery was established in 1823, although the first burial did not take place until 1825 when a young couple, who walked over 30 miles carrying a handmade coffin, buried their young daughter in the cemetery.

Some of the family names associated with this cemetery are Conway, Deady, Kelly, McCarron, Nunan, O'Connor and O'Hara.