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Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Edited: 2021 The demolition of the house at 284 Woolwich Street early in the realm of January 1965 will recall to many Guelphites the dramatic events that took place there on Tuesday, March 26, 1889. On that morning, William Harvey, an accountant at J. W. Lyon’s, who in danger of being arrested for embezzlement...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Please note that due to the digitization process typographical and grammatical errors have occurred in the articles. We are working to re-edit all articles on our website. Please be patient with us as we work to solve this problem. Thank you - the GHS Team. "'White elephant': a possession entailing great expense out of...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Edited: 2021 History is like the branch of a tree. You may start on the main branch with great determination, only to discover hundreds of offshoots which dare investigation and then you end out on a limb, as I have, so many times! In seeking information on our limestone buildings, I constantly found myself...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Please note that due to the digitization process typographical and grammatical errors have occurred in the articles. We are working to re-edit all articles on our website. Please be patient with us as we work to solve this problem. Thank you - the GHS Team. From the Guelph Daily Mercury files. March 15,...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Edited: 2021 K.W. Record, Feb. 16/62 Contributed by Russell Daly. Tucked away in the heart of Guelph is a tiny street on which the legal and political careers of several famous Canadians grew and blossomed. And even today Douglas Street – named for Jon Douglas, a 19th century Guelph Brewer, houses the offices of...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Edited: 2021 Since we live on Grange Street, I thought I would investigate the origin of the street name. However, I found few references to Sheriff Grange. In spite of this, it was obvious that he contributed a great deal to the general growth of the city. George John Grange was Irish and was...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Please note that due to the digitization process typographical and grammatical errors have occurred in the articles. We are working to re-edit all articles on our website. Please be patient with us as we work to solve this problem. Thank you - the GHS Team. One of the city’s most famous legal minds, Charles...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Edited: 2021 The first John Crowe came to Guelph in 1832 with his wife, Harriet Aldous. He was a tailor by trade, and she taught school. They came from either Bradford of Laxton in Yorkshire. They had three sons, William, Robert, and John, and one daughter, Ann. William was a wagon-maker or carriage-builder. He married...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Edited: 2021 Over half a century ago a talented singer who was known to audiences across the continent, Maud Stevenson is all but forgotten today. A daughter of one of Guelph’s early mayors, William Stevenson, she belonged to a family that exemplified the spirit of their times with strong ties and devotion to each other....
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Edited: 2021 Of the many pioneers of Guelph, none are remembered with more respect or more tenderness than the late William Stevenson, who passed 62 years of his useful life at 'Maple Bank', the home which he made from five acres of virgin forest into one of the most beautiful and best known residences in...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Edited: 2021 John Hogg, the Wonderful Man. Obituary, November 15, 1888 – [Guelph] Mercury: "In the death of Mr. John Hogg, there removed from our midst one of our best known, enterprising, and successful merchants. For about 35 years closely identified with Guelph, he came to it when it was a small and insignificant...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Edited: 2021 The Disciples of Christ in Wellington County came into being in the year 1830, a religious effort that was a functional step in building a religious communion. At one time the church was called Zion Chapel, or Zion Church, Bridge Street, now it is called Norwich Street North. The Guelph church building was on...
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1965 Please note that due to the digitization process typographical and grammatical errors have occurred in the articles. We are working to re-edit all articles on our website. Please be patient with us as we work to solve this problem. Thank you - the GHS Team. James Goldie, of the leading flour manufacturers and dealers in...