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.

Saturday, 23 May 2015

The John McCrae Memorial Garden

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May 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the writing of "In Flanders Fields", the poem for which John McCrae is famous. Although ...
Monday, 27 April 2015

St. George's Anglican Church clock

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Guelph has had many prominent civic clocks, including the Bell Organ and Piano clock , the Scotiabank clock , the old Post Office clock , th...
Saturday, 28 March 2015

Postcard from the trenches: Charles Mogk

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When Canadians went overseas to fight in the Great War, communication with friends and family at home became significant for morale in both ...
Friday, 27 February 2015

Tytler Public School

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Tytler Public School is back! The old public school in the Ward was closed in June of 2013 after a remarkable 135 years of service. The st...
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Sunday, 18 January 2015

Who had a hand in the planning of Guelph?

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If you did not grow up in Guelph, then, like me, you may remember in your early days trying to figure out the arrangement of streets downtow...
Sunday, 14 December 2014

Happy holidays from the Goodwin family!

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In addition to providing pictures of distant places, people have used postcards to connect with friends and family over the holidays. Postc...
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Monday, 17 November 2014

Thomas McCloskey: Journey home from war

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War One. Naturally, when we look back to that time, we tend to focus on the sol...
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