Volume 6
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Notable Dates In Connections with Colleges
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1966 Edited: 2021 Ontario Agricultural College: 1869 - The Hon. John Carling proposed the establishment of a School of Agriculture in Ontario. 1874-1879 - William Johnston appointed principal. His regime saw a firm foundation laid for the future. 1874 - June 1: Guelph had 31 students in residence at the School of Agriculture…
Guelph Historical Society in The Beginning
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1966 Edited: 2021 Contributed by: Miss Phyllis Higinbotham ( Y.M.C.A. Board Room, Guelph, February 22, 1924). The following gentlemen met here his evening to discuss the formation of a Historical Society for Guelph and Wellington County - Sheriff A. S. Allan, Messrs. Roswell Goldie, William Tytler, R. L. Mackinnon, David Allan, Alister MacAllister, Harry Howitt,…
Members of the First Wellington County Historical Society
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1966 Edited: 2025 There are at least four people living who were members of the first Wellington County Historical Society (1934-35). There are Mrs. Norman Wallace, Mr. C. L. C. Allinson, Mr. John McElderry, and Mrs. T. J. Hannigan. The full list of 87 members has come to light recently and will remind us…
More Gleanings From The Mercury Files
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1966 Edited: 2021 April 4th, 1889: The Goodeve Family originated in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. May 30th, 1889: Pressed brick, made at Milton, used for the Brampton Post Office, cost $20 per 1,000 as against $55 for brick imported from the United States. July 4th, 1889: Edward Johnson, then a pupil at…
Founder’s Sun Dial on Stump Guelph’s First Town Clock
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1966 Edited: 2025 Guelph’s first town clock was a sun dial placed upon the stump of the tree felled to mark the founding of the community by John Galt. The dial might have remained, but for removal necessitated at the time of provision of the embankment for the coming of the railway, Toronto to Guelph,…
Robert Donnell
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1966 Edited: 2021 Robert Donnell is another Guelphite who has climbed high in his profession. He was born in Toronto but came to Guelph when he was five years old. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Donnell of Waterloo Avenue. He attended the Torrance School, G.C.I., and was a member of St.…
Early Industrial Life of Guelph Part 1
Author: David Allen Publication Date: 1966 Edited: 2021 There is ample evidence that among the early settlers in Guelph there were men of vision, men who started industries to provide for the needs of the rapidly growing settlement. First, was the manufacture of indispensable resources: flour, then lumber, articles of iron, implements, wagons, buggies and other lines as demand…
Launching Of The Manitoba At Owen Sound
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1966 Edited: 2021 " Owen Sound, May 4 – T he new C.P.R. steamer, Manitoba , was launched here today. Immediately on arrival of the one o’clock train, which had two special cars of friends of the Polson Company, all preparations for the launch were completed. Thousands of spectators were on the ground or cliff…
The Herb Woman
Author: Greta M. Shutt Publication Date: 1966 Edited: 2021 (First published in the Herb Grower Magazine, Volume XIX, Number 2, of Falls Village, Connecticut, U.S.A.) My mother told me that when she was a little girl, Grandma would hitch up the horse and take one of her daughters out to visit Miss Fry and buy some herbs. Mother had…
Governor-General and MME. Vanier Visit Guelph
Author: Unknown Publication Date: 1966 Edited: 2021 The pageantry that has marked the official visit to Guelph of Governor-General and Mme. Vanier assumed additional colour today as attention was directed especially to observance of the centenary of the 11th Field Regiment, Canadian Field Artillery. Friday, as Their Excellencies participated in a purely civic program, the participants were clad in…