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Edward Butts
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If you're interested in Guelph history, my book Guelph Stories has chapters on much, much more than the familiar accounts of John Galt and Col. John McCrae. It's at The Bookshelf and the Guelph Museum gift shop, or you can order a signed copy from me at [email protected]. Ed Butts
Jay Wilson
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2017, Guelph's 190th anniversary. We celebrated with a play at Guelph's Museum. Guelph in Postcards at McCrae House. Were you there?
www.jaywalkingguelph.ca
P. Brian Skerrett
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Great to see so many people have taken in this exhibit!
Museum exhibit highlighting Guelph’s former reformatory extended
www.guelphtoday.com
Liz O'Donnell
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Check out our most recent article posted to the Then and Now Community Leader Section sponsored by Gilbert MacIntyre and Sons photo credit: Courtesy of United States Library of Congress Prints Photographs Division
www.guelphtoday.com
P. Brian Skerrett
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The Reformatory exhibit at the Guelph museum just didn't have enough room for all the stories to tell... Like Christmas cards sent to inmates from public school children...
P. Brian Skerrett
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1924 map of the Ontario Agricultural (now University of Guelph). War Memorial Hall was a new building and Johnston Hall hadn't yet replaced the Admin building. Several significant buildings on the map are unlabelled: can you identify them? Found corresponding photos for most of the labels. I maxed out the photos allowed so no Massey Hall picture and I couldn't find a photo of the Piggery. Photos courtesy Guelph Museum, Wellington County Museum & …
P. Brian Skerrett
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Just got this print from an auction in Boston. It's from the 1874 Canadian Illustrated News. A bonus wasthe label on the back; it was framed in Guelph on Carden Street in the 1960's!
That prompted me to include some extra 19th century illustrations of the Exhibition Grounds. Both maps below show the gatehouse on the corner of London and Exhibition. The 1874 Map shows the evolution of the grounds to include a horse race track around the …
Tony Saxon
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https://www.guelphtoday.com/then-and-now/peanuts-not-sabotage-caused-thunderous-1944-crash-at-goldie-mill-10524603
www.guelphtoday.com
Steven Petric
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Who remembers the giant Star Trek display (via the Guelph Star Trek Club) hanging over the fountain at Stone Road Mall in the early 90's?
Photo via Guelph Star Trek Club / Niel Arnold
www.sentex.ca
P. Brian Skerrett
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Fun Fact! The MacDonell Street Viaduct (aka the Metrolinx GO Bridge) is a Heritage Structure designated under part III of the Heritage Act! That means it's a Provincially owned Property of Provincial Significance.
P. Brian Skerrett
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Click the link for the second Bellwether Town video... this one came about by accident. I was telling Troy about the exhibit and he just stuck the microphone in my hand... While I was talking about the Native Sons I couldn't bring Ray Nobis' name to mind... He painted one of the murals in the Native Sons room and contributed to the Native Sons poetry collection.
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P. Brian Skerrett
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Looks like the Drill Shed is back at Council again!
The Heritage Designation of the Drill Shed was supported unanimously by Council in 2011 including by then Councillor, now Mayor, Guthrie.
But before the Municipal Designation could take force, it was designated by the Province as a Provincially Significant Building. That designation lapsed when it was transferred to City ownership, and the municipal designation took effect. Guelph only …
P. Brian Skerrett
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Did a fun Bellwether Town video with Troy Bridgeman on the Reformatory Exhibit at the Guelph Museum. Naturally I had more to say than he had time for, so there may be another video coming too!
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P. Brian Skerrett
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A great pic of the Albion from 1909... Sam Fagel Proprietor as noted on the reverse...
P. Brian Skerrett
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Interesting update on the river wall from the boathouse to Gow's bridge. Too bad the city didn't reference the historical significance of the work done here. The work done in Guelph was a small part of a National program of unemployment relief.
See Bonnie Durtnall's summary of Guelph relief activity on her Labouring All Our Lives web page:
https://labouringallourlives.ca/no-relief-from-relief-the-great-depression-in-guelph/
www.guelphmercury.com
P. Brian Skerrett
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Little known connections... What is the link between the original Sleeman Estate and The Albion?
The fence at the Albion patio was once part of the Sleeman estate on Waterloo Ave.
Photos below Courtesy Google Earth, and Guelph Civic Museum items 2014.33.34.4 and 2009.32.3800
P. Brian Skerrett
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This is a little bigger than just a Guelph memory, but also specific to Guelph... Does anyone know about the "Farmerettes"?
Bonnie Sitter has unearthed a little know sucess story about young Canadian women pitching in during WWII... it became a book and a play and now documentary maker Colin Field has produced the movie
WE LEND A HAND
that's about to premier April 4th at the Junction North International Film Festival.
The trailer is …
www.welendahand.ca
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