Vintage Guelph

CJOY celebrates it's 70th birthday on June 14th. This picture dates back to the late 60s. I wound up working with the four guys on the right-Wayne Moore, Mac Byard, Guus Hazelaar and Norm Jary (what's in the bag Norm!)...Larry

Ok, after 15 weeks being tied up with other obligations, we're returning to regular content / updates. To kick things off: 37 years ago today (November 26th, ...1983) - you could go meet the Guelph Platers at Stone Road Mall from noon to 3pm (it was a Saturday). Anyone have any memories of going and meeting Kirk Muller & the Platers? See more

December 18, 1976 photo shows a ribbon being cut to open the new Canada Trust branch at Speedvale and Woolwich. The ribbon was made of $1 bills. Later all the b...ills were added to the United Way's growing fund. Al Whittall, chairman of the United Way, Mayor Norm Jary, June Burns, and Debbie Devine, and manager Brian Nasso, are seen in this photograph. Photo Credit: Guelph Public Library - F45-0-4-0-0-244

September, 1982. There is a sign in the window advertising The Games Gallery grand opening was on Saturday, August 14, 1982. Photo credit: Guelph Museums 2009.32.5869

Colour photo of the ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the arena at Exhibition Park. Rita Campbell, Mayor Norm Jary (Cutting the ribbon with a skate), a...nd youth hockey players representing the Can/Am Hockey schools are participating in the cutting, in the Garden's Lobby. Aug. 30, 1971. Photo Copyright/Credit: Guelph Museums 2001.10.18

Item F45-0-1-0-0-387 - Mayors Purchase Will Help Gaels To Wales Caption from website: "Mayor Norm Jary selected this tree for Christmas when he made the first p...urchase at Guelph CVI's sales lot. The rugby sweaters on Gary Walpole, left, and Ray Berry, aren't for effect. The grade 11 students are members of Gaels rugby team which is trying to raise funds for a trip to Wales." Dated: December 10, 1976 Photo Copyright/Credit: Guelph Mercury fonds via Guelph Public Library Archives F45-0-1-0-0-387 https://www.archeion.ca/mayors-purchase-will-help-gaels-to-

#TBT - Soldiers Parading on Gordon Street, c.1941. Soldiers march up the hill on Gordon Street, with young onlookers watching from the sidewalk. Image: Guelph M...useums Collection, 1984.5.30 Currently on view at Guelph Civic Museum as part of the case display, Liberation of Holland - 1945. 75 years since the end of the Second World War.

Ad inside the #GuelphRoyals Jr A OHA Hockey Program with CJOY1460 and Norm Jary

Circa 1942 photograph of reviewing stand set up on east side of Wyndham Street south of St. George's Square, accommodating military and civilian personnel. Ther...e are children in foreground. Officer in front is saluting. Group marching past is not shown. In background is Agnew Surpass, Cole Bros., Tip Top Tailors and on the second floor Active Service Force Canteen. Photo Credit/Copyright: Guelph Museums 1984.5.31

Mayor Norm Jary handing Harold Ballard, owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the "key" to the city with Women in Crisis members Linda Lennon and Janet Ellis on November 18, 1980. Photo Credit/Copyright: Guelph Public Library Archives F45-0-7-0-0-879

"When it came time to look at who should be featured on the landmark 200th episode of the Guelph Politicast, there was really only one answer. It’s been almost 20 years since Norm Jary left city council, and it’s been almost 35 years since he left the mayor’s office, but it’s hard to deny that the 37th Mayor of the City of Guelph still enjoys high approval ratings." Have a listen: https://guelphpolitico.ca//guelph-politicast-200-mayor-no/

#TBT - War Memorial, Trafalgar Square, c. 1950 ow.ly/AXVi30grZMp

"The day before he wrote his famous poem, one of John McCrae's comrades from the artillery was killed in the fighting and buried in a makeshift grave with a sim...ple wooden cross. Wild poppies were already beginning to bloom between the crosses marking the many graves. Unable to help his friend or any of the others who had died, John McCrae gave them a voice through his poem. It was the second last poem he was to write." Photo source: https://www.warmuseum.ca/collections/artifact/1926083/

Ghoulish Guelph: A look at how we celebrated Halloween in the past https://vintageguelph.ca//ghoulish-guelph-a-look-at-how-w/