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Coordinates: 43°28′15.31″N 79°41′45.92″W / 43.4709194°N 79.6960889°W / 43.4709194; -79.6960889
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a diploma and degree granting Canadian polytechnic institute with approximately 17,000 full-time students and 35,000 continuing education students. Founded in 1967, the college is known for its animation and illustration courses, a music theatre performance program, undergraduate and post-graduate film programs, and a craft and design program. They also have courses in business, applied computing, engineering technology, community studies, and liberal studies. Their traditional animation department was dubbed "the Harvard of animation schools" by animator Michael Hirsh in 1996, with alumni contributing significantly to the Canadian animation industry since the 1970's. They have campuses in Brampton and Oakville, Ontario, both suburbs of Toronto. A new campus in the Mississauga City Centre opened in September 2011.
Sheridan College was established during the formation of Ontario’s college system, and opened in 1967. It was part of a provincial initiative from May 21, 1965 to create many such institutions providing career-oriented diploma and certificate courses, as well as continuing education programs to Ontario communities. The school's founding president, Jack Porter, immediately began putting multiple programs and courses into action, which would grow into complete departments.
Hazel McCallion, née Journeaux, CM (born February 14, 1921) is the mayor of Mississauga, Ontario. McCallion has been Mississauga's mayor for 33 years, holding office since 1978. She is affectionately called "Hurricane Hazel" by supporters as well as the media at large for her vibrant outspoken style of no-nonsense politics.
She is one of Canada's best known and longest-serving mayors and she is one of the longest serving elected leaders in history. Now aged 91, she was easily re-elected in October 2010 for her 12th consecutive term, holding a 76% majority of the votes, and has often been reelected without conducting a campaign. She has been "Voted the second most popular mayor in the world, Mayor McCallion was appointed Member of the Order of Canada in 2005."
She is both a Member of the Order of Canada and a Member of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Journeaux was born at Port Daniel on the Gaspé Coast of Quebec. Her father, Herbert Armand Journeaux (1879–1944) owned a fishing and canning company. Her mother, Maude Travers (1876–1955) was a homemaker and ran the family farm. The family also comprised two older sisters and two older brothers. After graduating from Quebec High School she attended business secretarial school in Quebec City and Montreal. She has stated, especially while receiving university honours, that she would have wanted to attend university, but her family could not afford it. After beginning her career in Montreal with the Canadian Kellogg company, she was transferred to Toronto in 1942, where she helped set up the local office. McCallion left the business world in 1967, to devote her career in politics.