Colourful banners hang across the city to mark Mississauga’s 50th anniversary

Public art banners have popped up in neighbourhoods across the city in celebration of Mississauga’s 50th anniversary.

The custom-designed banner portraits can be spotted hanging from light posts on main streets in Applewood, Churchill Meadows, City Centre, Clarkson, Cooksville, Erin Mills, Erindale, Malton, Meadowvale, Port Credit and Streetsville.

City of Mississauga officials said each banner evokes a memory of the area and tells a different story.

Co-commissioned by the city’s five business improvement associations and produced by Mississauga artist Alyah Holmes, the City in Colour banners “capture the vibrant diversity of Mississauga’s communities and focus on bringing people, nature and the feeling of Mississauga to life,” officials added.

The banners celebrate both Mississauga’s 50th year as a city — its member communities were brought together in 1974 to create the City of Mississauga — and local artists.

“It’s incredible to be part of such amazing artistic talent within the city and be able to visually share what makes Mississauga special to me,” said Holmes, adding she drew on her personal experience as a Mississauga-based artist when designing the banners.

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“I hope the people of Mississauga feel I’ve captured the city and what makes it so special.”

(Photos: City of Mississauga)

Banners created by Holmes to mark Mississauga’s big year include works that highlight:

• Clarkson Halloween
• Rattray Marsh
• Taste of Cooksville
• historic Clair House (Canada’s first winery, which was located in Cooksville)
• transportation in Malton
• Port Credit’s music and waterfront patios
• Streetsville Bread and Honey Festival
• Franklin House in Streetsville
• summer food trucks at Celebration Square
• Wahoosh Falls

The public art banners are not new in Mississauga this year. Each year since 2020, the city’s public art program commissions emerging artists to create original banner artwork and participate in a public art mentorship opportunity.