Monday, 31 August 2020

Guelph gets in the swim: Swimming tanks invade the Royal City

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The following notice in the OAC Review heralds the arrival of a new sport facility in Guelph, the swimming bath (1894, v. 5, n. 5 , p. 6)...
Monday, 3 August 2020

"Return tickets to Gourock can now be had all along the line": The big railway comes to a hamlet near Guelph

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The "Gourock correspondence" column—of which there were very few—in the Daily Mercury (16 June 1881) relates the big event happeni...
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Sunday, 19 July 2020

"Bathers of both sexes find good bathing there": Guelphites get a decent bath in Riverside Park

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In his praise of the brand-new Riverside Park in 1905, the Rev. J.B. Mullen of Fergus remarked on one of its attractions: Bathers, too, of ...
Sunday, 14 June 2020

Summer Speed bathing in Victorian Guelph

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As is true today, swimming was a popular summertime recreation in Victorian Guelph.  In fact, the town of Guelph could boast one of the clas...
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Monday, 25 May 2020

The pride of Mountain Town: Guelph's standpipe of 1909

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Because they were souvenirs, old postcards of Guelph (like many other towns) put churches, train stations, public buildings, and beauty spot...
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Sunday, 26 April 2020

William Macalister' falls

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One Guelph postcard that puzzled me when I picked it up is the following, purporting to be of McAlisters Falls, Guelph, Ont. Guelph is well...
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Friday, 3 April 2020

Guelph is now baseball mad: The Maple Leafs were Inter-County champions of 1921

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"Guelph is now baseball mad," said the opening line in the Mercury's article of 25 August 1921. Only the day before, thousand...