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Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1963 Edited: 2021 One of the honoured members of the Society, Mr. Findlay Weaver, has lately been writing in his column, 'Lore of Bygone Days', articles about the three sons of John Galt, founder of Guelph. With assistance from Mr. Weaver’s articles, the files of the Galt Reporter for 1866, O.D. Skeleton’s Life and Times...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1963 Edited: 2021 Certain areas of land were given to various denominations for the building of churches by those who were in charge of the laying out the town of Guelph. One of these areas, and one of the most central, was that of St. George’s Square, which was one day to house the church...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1963 Edited: 2021 In 1931, the GummerPress Limited, Guelph, Ontario, printed a very valuable pamphlet of 12 pages entitled, The Wild or Passenger Pigeon. This pamphlet was written by Henry Howitt, MD, MRCS, Eng., FACS. The front cover had a print of a painting by Fred Dixon of Guelph of a male and female pigeon. The...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1963 Edited: 2022 Mr. Mike Dinning of Greenock, Scotland, has sent the president, Mr. Douglass, the followinginformation about John Galt’s grave in the Galt Memorial Cemetery, Inverkip Street, Greenock,Scotland. The slabs show that his father, mother, and he are buried under I, his sister and brother-in-law under III and his nephew and nieces under II....
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1963 Edited: 2021 Samuel Strickland was born on Nov. 6, 1804, at Reyden Hall, Suffolk, England. Educated at Dr. Valpy’s school in Norwich, and emigrated to Canada in 1825, he settled first at Darlington, now Bowmanville, where he married Emma, daughter of Colonel Black, who died in childbirth in 1826. In that year, Strickland left...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1963 Edited: 2021 A meeting of the employees of the Raymond and Osborne sewing machine shops, and Crowe’s Foundry was called on the evening of June 17, 1875, for the purpose of forming a volunteer fire company. Mr. William Wilkie was appointed Chairman, and B. Fairly as Secretary ProTem. It was moved by Mr. S.R. Moffatt, seconded...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1963 The President of the Society, Mr. Hugh Douglass, has come across some interesting information regarding the time and cost of the erection of the old Guelph Grammar School, which was the precursor of the Guelph High School, which in turn became the Guelph Collegiate. This building was the one that faced on Paisley Street...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1963 This interesting character well-known to Guelphites of yester year, was born in the village of Bratton, Devonshire, England on the 24th of March, 1810. As a youth he was apprenticed to his grandfather for seven years as a carpenter. At the expiration of his apprenticeship, he set up his own business in Plymouth. In...