Marian M. Gibson was born in South Wales U.K., began her teaching career in the Midlands of England, and immigrated to Canada in 1964. Marian wrote the chapter on Port Credit in the MHF publication Mississauga the First 10,000 Years. In the Footsteps of the Mississaugas, also published by MHF, is a view on the history of the Native people who have inhabited the area we now call Mississauga.