About 12:30 in the morning of 6 November 1968, Harry Johnston, proprietor of the Rockhaven Motel, answered the doorbell to find two young men with their backs to him. The fact that they had silk stockings over their heads immediately suggested they were up to no good. The account from the Kitchener-Waterloo Record continues: One of the two men turned around and put a switch bl...

This rare and appealing postcard provides an image of an older woman seated outside in a rocking chair in the sunshine, wearing a straw hat and smoking a pipe. Her hands are folded, her look serious (as it might be for a formal portrait). She looks straight at the camera lens but remains enigmatic.

Guelph's third Old Home Week took place from August 1 through 8, 1927, and it took a lot of effort! One of the people who worked in a booth on the occasion wrote about it on a postcard to her aunt as follows: Dear Aunt and all—Just a card to let you know I arrived here safely. I haven’t time to write a letter for I am working day and night. This is the old Boys reunion here th...

On 1 May 1959, a brief sod-turning ceremony was held on a hilltop just north of Guelph. Monsignor Rt. Rev. W.J. Hawkins, of St. Joseph’s Parish, Guelph, shoveled a clod of earth from the ground as Rev. Edward J. Sherry of Toronto made a short speech. Sherry's remarks outlined the history of the Jesuit order in Canada, leading to the foundation of the Jesuit novitiate, St. Stanis...