NXchick

So...its that time of the year again.... Many of you may not know what or where this is. But because my family has always been a big supporter for the Bread and Honey festival I wanted to share with everyone.

In simple terms...Bread and Honey is a small carnival style festival held by the town of Streetsville. Every year thousands of people go through.
Rides, games, beer tent the island(vendors selling lots of different stuff) and of course Bread and Honey!

The reason for this thread is I want to hear who has gone and who hasnt even heard of it. Being a true streets village person (having grown up there) I have taken a shining to the annual festival that has been going on for ages!

Ryan and i will be heading down there tonight around 7ish if there is anyone who wants to check it out. Just let us know and we can arrange a meeting spot.

Its held at the Vic Johnson arena in Streetsville all weekend. It starts today and will be going until late tmrw.

Cant wait to hear what you guys have to say!

here is a generalized area in case you decide to wander down....

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&sourc...,0.038409&z=15

AcuratePaul

iTrader: (8)

God dam i would go but im working tonight. hope you guys have fun.

NXchick

well there is always next year!
its a great experience even if you only go once

juancito117

who wants to take me!! its kinda far for me!

Eden

Just noticed this now, Beca. Hope that you and Ryan had an great time, those kind of festivals are always so much fun. Dundas has one called "Buskerfest" (actually, I think it was this weekend, too...?...), and it's always interesting.

Thanks for posting this up. Any idea where the origin of the festival came from? (Guess I could probably just google ) I'd never heard of it until I read your post.

NXchick

Hey sha! just saw ur post now my self! Its been around for almost as long as Streestville has been around, actually its been an active festival since 1973. According the the history of the bread and honey festival, it was a way for the little "village in the city" as they call it to stand out from the entirety of Mississauga. Its a form of celebration for the many years contribution Streetsville has had to the milling industry. Also, Sam Mccallion who is the founding father for the festival and is who i believe to be Hazel Mccallions father. Hazel is our 3rd and longest running mayor (1974-to the present) she still lives in Streetsville and shops among us when shes not running mississauga. lol big history behind it. as many cities have the same type of history im sure, because i have lived here almost my whole life, its a big part of history. Specially since streetsville is such a small little place. and if you ever get a chance, take a stroll down the main street. Ice cream parlors that used to be garages, music stores where some big names in the music biz were once a part of and little gift shops filled with hand crafted accessories. At night, its a great place to grab a coffee and just walk down to the credit river.

Yes, Im prolly rambling and i do appologize. But its truly is a beautiful little place.

AcuratePaul

iTrader: (8)

I love going to streetsville i always get my shawarma's there and it is a nice place to walk around ....oh and HAZEL MCCALLION is awesome!!!!

Eden

Thanks for that, Beca. No, it wasn't rambling, gave me a bit of background since it's something that wasn't familiar. Yeah, lots of little places have their certain festivals. Hamilton has a few, there's one called Festival of Friends (in August), sometimes they even have somewhat famous performers at the bandshell (this year, it's a few 80s bands that are scheduled, I think)...and it's free. They sell crafts there, lots of food, typical summer festival. But, it's the smaller-town community ones that are interesting. The Beamsville Poultry-Fest, the Jarvis CornFest, Winona Peach Festival (haven't been to all of them, but read or heard of them). Those are the kind of things that are great, and there's something almost every weekend throughout the summer.

Glad you mentioned about the Streetsville one. When you and Ryan went, it must have been a good time. Did you get a shwarma, like Paul talked of?

NXchick

OMG please tell me u go to the pita nutsy????!!!! they are the BEST! and i agree with you hazel rocks...i dont think any one could fill her shoes...she has been amazing to mississauga and thats prolly why no one will go up against her! lol

Sha - we had a ver good time, ryan won me a little teddy bear...we had free food cuz i know one of the vendors and we just walked around..it was ryans first time and im glad we went. unfortunatly it started to rain and we heard there would be a big storm so we booked it as soon as we felt drops. It never fails, that weekend it rains EVERY year. My family used to be a vendor there for almost 15 years so iv had more then my share of rainy weekends. I just hope that next year we will be able to spend a good portion of the day there, and really experience it.