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.

Wednesday, 21 December 2016

Merry Xmas Tokyo, 1908!

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The picture side of this postcard is common enough, providing a view of the Priory , the "First House in Guelph, now CPR Station" ...
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Friday, 25 November 2016

The wreck of the Royal City hay train

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Although postcards typically recorded prominent places or structures, they also served as a popular way to capture current events. Parades,...
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Sunday, 30 October 2016

R.C.A.F. Wireless School No. 4

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The postcard shown below portrays Upper Wyndham Street as it appeared in the early 1940s, in a somewhat hallucinogenic color scheme. The Do...
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Friday, 30 September 2016

James Massie builder of the Alma Block

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On the morning of December 15, 1867, we may imagine the scene as James Massie looked over the charred remains of the Alma Block on Upper Wy...
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Monday, 22 August 2016

The ghost garden of the O.A.C.

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Today, Guelphites and University of Guelph students know Johnston Green as the large and pleasant lawn encountered while traveling to campu...
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Wednesday, 27 July 2016

The Priory gets rebuilt—almost!

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My previous posting left off with the demolition of the Priory in 1926 . Salvageable logs from the main body had been hauled to Robert Stewa...
Wednesday, 29 June 2016

The Priory—a sad ending

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In his essential History of Guelph , Leo Johnson remarks that the Priory—the first house in Guelph—came to a sad ending ( 1977, p. 317 ). I...
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