Guelph in postcards

Postcards of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, from my collection, spanning the early 20th century to the present. Click on postcard images to see them enlarged, and on Street View images (where given; copyright to Google) to compare with the present-day city. Also, check out my Flash from the Past columns with the Waterloo Record.

Monday, 30 June 2014

Happy Canada Day, 2014

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Canada Day (formerly Dominion Day) seems like a good time to bring out the patriotic postcards. These fall into at least two types. First...
Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Wells' bridge

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In the early morning hours of 13 May 2014, lightning struck the old manor at 25 Manor Park Crescent in Guelph . The old stone home caught f...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

The island in the Square

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The City of Guelph is contemplating some further changes to its downtown spaces. One of the changes under consideration is the construction...
Monday, 7 April 2014

The Prince of Wales visits the O.A.C.

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The first sentence in the 1919 O.A.C. Review article (v. 32, no. 3, p. 134) puts the matter succinctly: "October the 21st was a red let...
Monday, 17 March 2014

The Knox Church fire of 1904

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As we have seen, people have had many uses for postcards, from merely staying in touch to entering contests . Another use for postcards ha...
Thursday, 20 February 2014

Guelph Correctional Centre

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If asked about long-standing institutions in the Royal City, you might think first of the Ontario Agricultural College. That would be perfe...
Friday, 24 January 2014

MacDonald Hall

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It is not every day that a postcard gets on the front page of the newspaper, but that is just where this postcard from the Valentine & S...
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