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.

Sunday, 25 October 2020

A cleaner and better young manhood: Indoor swimming returns with the Guelph YMCA

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On 22 September 1913, Guelph's newest public edifice was officially opened. As it was a YMCA, its gymnasium provided the perfect venue ...
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Sunday, 27 September 2020

Petrie's pleasure scheme: Guelph's first indoor swimming pool

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On 27 December 1897, the Daily Mercury broke the news breathlessly to Guelphites: A mammoth scheme. Mr. Petrie to build a gymnasium, bicycl...
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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