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.

Monday, 21 December 2020

We had a decent Xmas, 1916

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The end of the year is often a good time to look back and take stock, and so it is with postcards. Consider the rather watery postcard belo...
Sunday, 6 December 2020

Puslinch Lake, Guelph's first resort

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Though situated at the confluence of the Speed and Eramosa rivers, which have always provided ample bathing and boating opportunities, Gue...
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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