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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