Volume 49

Mayor of All the People: Norm Jary and the 'Civic Revolution' in Late Twentieth Century Guelph, Ontario

Author: Dr. Debra Nash-Chambers Publication Date: 2010 Edited: 2022     Mr. & Mrs. Norm Jary (Photo courtesy of Norm Jary).     "I will be forever humble and grateful to the citizens of Guelph for the great opportunity to serve them. I have met any numbers of VIPs over my lifetime, from prime ministers of Canada, governors general, leaders...

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The Trial of Captain Charles Kingsmill

Author: Dr. Robert L. Davison Publication Date: 2010 Edited: 2022     Admiral Sir Charles Kingsmill, 1910. (Photo courtesy of Guelph Museums (1981_280_1)).   Admiral Sir Charles Kingsmill, as the readers of Historic Guelph are no doubt aware, was the founding director of the Royal Canadian Navy and also a native of Guelph where he was born in July 1855....

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Family History; Thorp: A Short Street with a Long Legacy

Author: Shirley Newell Publication Date: 2010 Edited: 2022     The Sleeman Centre now occupies the land next to the Wellington County Court House that used to be 54 Woolwich Street - actually it was 62 Woolwich Street in the old directories before the new numbering system was introduced around 1916. The old home that once occupied that lot survives...

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Book Review; Alice Street: A Memoir

Author/Reviewed by: Dr. Terry Crowley Publication Date: 2010 Edited: 2022       At one time Alice Street in Guelph's Ward One was terra incognito to much of the City's Anglo population. Many people did not go into The Ward, and they did not allow their children to go there either. This divide stemmed from animosities between natives and newcomers...

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Erica Morant: The "Get Things Right" Archivist

Author: Donald Coulman with Rosemary Anderson Publication Date: 2010 Edited: 2022     Erica Morant, former Guelph Historical Society archivist, always insisted on, "Getting things right." She succinctly expressed her view of the purpose of archives and, "Getting it right," in a February 1996 GHS Newsletter:   "It is from archival materials that researchers, historians, and writers find the base...

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In Memoriam: Hugh Guthrie

Author: Dr. Debra Nash-Chambers Publication Date: 2010 Edited: 2022     Hugh Guthrie at the John Galt Sunday Kirking held at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 2008. (Photo courtesy of Don McAllister).   The sympathy of the Guelph Historical Society is extended to GHS President Ann Guthrie and her sister Margaret on the June 28, 2010, passing of their beloved father...

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