Canada 150 A Guelph Story

1867

Guelph Evening Mercury Advertiser becomes daily paper
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1868

Knox Presbyterian Church is built on Quebec Street
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1869

1869- Guelph's labour movement is founded
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1870

1870- The Union Hotel on MacDonell Street opens
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1871

1871- Gas first flows from Huskisson Street (now Lower Wyndham)
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1872

1872- Canadian Furniture Manufacturing opens on Yorkshire Street
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1873

1873- Spring floods destroy Gow's Dam and Presant's Dam
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1874

1874- The Guelph Maple Leafs
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1875

1875- Guelph General Hospital is founded
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1876

1876- The New Wellington Hotel is built
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1877

1877-Central Public School opens
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1878

1878- Mary Leslie
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1879

1879- P.T. Barnum and his circus visit Guelph
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1880

1880- British Methodist Episcopal church erected on Essex Street
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1881

1881- The original, steel Heffernan Street footbridge is built across the Speed River
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1882

1882- The Canadian Bank of Commerce builds iconic Queen Anne Revival Building
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1883

1883- The Homewood Sanitarium is established by a group of Toronto businessmen
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1884

1884-Bell Piano Factory opens on Carden Street
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1885

1885- Le Yun and Sing Lee open the first Chinese laundry
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1886

1886- Telephones come to Guelph
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1887

1887- Transportation By-Law
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1888

1888- Church of Our Lady Immaculate finishes main structure
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1889

1889- The first Johnston Hall is built
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1890

1890- Charles Cromwell
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1891

1891- Self-proclaimed Poet Laureate James Gay passes away
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1892

1892- Beloved Mayor Thomas Goldie, of the Goldie's Mill family, dies unexpectedly in office
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1893

1893- Catastrophic fire at Stewart's Lumber on Wyndham Street
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1894

1894- Griffin Royal Opera House
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1895

1895 - Guelph Street Railway
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1896

1896 - Odd Fellows
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1897

1897 - Guelph General
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1898

1898 – Labour and Trade Council
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1899

1899 – Winter Fair
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1900

1900 – Electricity
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1901

1901- Sergeant John A. Wilkinson
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1902

1902 - Guelph Co-operative Association is formed
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1903

1903 – Macdonald Institute
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1904

1904 – Train wreck
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1905

1905 – 5 pin bowling
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1906

1906- J. W. Lyon
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1907

1907- Arkell Springs
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1908

Opera singer Edward Johnson at the height of his career
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1909

1909- The Ontario Reformatory
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1910

1910 – Royal Navy
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1911

1911- The 1911 census lists citizens of Italian background in Guelph
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1912

1912 – YMCA
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1913

1913 – St Ignatius
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1914

1914 – WW1
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1915

1915 – John McCrae
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1916

1916- Guelph pacifists are violently terrorised and scorned in downtown Guelph
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1917

1917- Ignatius Raid
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1918

1918- Spanish flu
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1919

1919 – Prince of Wales
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1920

1920 – Victory School
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1921

1921 – Communist Party
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1922

1922- Poet Douglas Lochhead
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1923

1923 – Gilsons
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1924

1924 –Laura Lemon
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1925

1925 – Alex Black
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1926

1926 – Dental exams
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1927

1927 – Jockstrap
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1928

1928 – Whippets
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1929

1929 – Floods
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1930

1930- The Guelph Maple Leafs win the Professional Hockey League championship.
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1931

1931 – Johnston Hall
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1932

1932- "Leapin' Lou" Fontinato, of the New York Rangers is born in Guelph
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1933

1933 – Sleeman
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1934

1934 – Ned Sparks
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1935

1935 – Inter-urban railway
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1936

1936- Arthur W. Cutten dies
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1937

1937 – Streetcars
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1938

1938 – Biltmore strike
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1939

1939 – Royal Visit
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1940

1940- Guelph's Leading Aircraftman
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1941

1941- Pass system abolished
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1942

1942 – Dieppe
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1943

1943 – Charley Fox
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1944

1944- John Kenneth Macalister
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1945

1945- Arthur Corstorphine
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1946

1946 – John Herbert
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1947

1947 – Retailer of art supplies and fine goods, Duncan Macphee is established
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1948

1948 – Guelph floods
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1949

1949 – Beth Isaiah Temple
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1950

1950 – Korea
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1951

1951 – Guelph General
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1952

1952 – Reformatory Riot
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1953

1953 – Notre Dame
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1954

1954 – Capitol Theatre destroyed
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1955

1955 – John Rennie
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1956

1956 – John F Ross
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1957

1957 – Bruce Gamble
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1958

1958 – Long distance call
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1959

1959 – Stephen Truscott
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1960

1960 – Customs House
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1961

1961 – Historical Society
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1962

1962 – Schoolhouse
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1963

1963 – U of G
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1964

1964 – Carnegie Library
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1965

1965 – Kortwright Waterfowl Park
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1966

1966 – City limits
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1967

1967 – Civic Museum
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1968

1968 – Roberta Bondar
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1969

1969 – Victoria Mill
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1970

1970 – Fire at MacDonald Block
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1971

1971 - Iggy Pop
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1972

1972 – Hanlon Expressway
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1973

1973 – Homophile
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1974

1974 – Tovell Building
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1975

1975 – Stone Road Mall
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1976

1976 – Wellington Hotel
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1977

1977 – Jary and Trudeau
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1978

1978 – Multicultural Fest
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1979

1979 – Robert Munsch
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1980

1980 – Terry Fox
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1981

1981 – Courthouse and Gaol
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1982

1982 – Woods
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1983

1983 – Family Sculpture
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1984

1984 – Victor Davis
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1985

1985 – Studio Tour
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1986

1986
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1987

1987 – Recycling
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1988

1988 – Sleemans
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1989

1989 – Colonial Whitewear
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1990

1990 – Imico
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1991

1991 – Guelph Storm
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1992

1992 – Covered bridge
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1993

1993 – Festival Italiano
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1994

1994 – Lenna Bradburn
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1995

1995 – River Run
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1996

1996 – Gwen Jacobs
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1997

1997 – Mondex System
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1998

1998 – Great Ice Storm
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1999

1999 – Sleeman Centre
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2000

2000 – Women in Government
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2001

2001 – Hanlon Expressway
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2002

2002 – Guelph Correctional Centre
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2003

2003 – Pride Picnic
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2004

2004 – Sly Castaldi
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2005

2005 – Remains found at Baker Street
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2006

2006 – Guelph Jazz Fest
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2007

2007 – Take Back the Night
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2008

2008 – First Hillside Inside
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2009

2009 – New City Hall completed
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2010

2010 – Gord Downie at Hillside
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2011

2011 – Pierre Poutine Scandal
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2012

2012 – The Guelph Civic Museum Relocates to the Loretto Convent
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2013

2013 – Gummer Building Restored
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2014

2014 – Attawandaron
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2015

2015 – Murdoch Mysteries Filmed in Downtown Guelph
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2016

2016 – Syrian Refugees Come to Guelph
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2017

2017 – Petrie Renovation
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