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.

Thursday, 30 November 2017

The Brills of Guelph

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Postcard collectors know that the back of a postcard can be as interesting as the front. Just as the front may provide a picture of people,...
Tuesday, 31 October 2017

The Royal City and the Royal Coronation, 1911

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Any year has its beginnings and its endings and 1911 was no exception. In the British Empire, it was perhaps most noted for the beginning o...
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Tuesday, 26 September 2017

Flag fight at the O.A.C.

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Each September, new students at the University of Guelph are led through a series of activities, known as Orientation Week , designed to we...
Monday, 21 August 2017

Officer 666 plays in Guelph!

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The Edwardian era was the golden age of postcards. Also, as Anthony Vickery ( 2010 ) points out, it was the golden age of theatrical tourin...
Monday, 31 July 2017

Guelph's postcard producers: Chas. L. Nelles

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Anyone who has looked at many postcards of Guelph from the Edwardian era will be familiar with this caption: Dozens of Guelph postcards o...
Friday, 30 June 2017

The Goldie Mill grounds

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A section of Goldie Mill Park was recently closed due to detection of contaminated soil . The trouble started in June 2016 when sinkholes ...
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