A Look At Guelph’s Mustang Drive In Theatre

Ah, the drive-in movie. There is something about hearing the ‘Beach Boys’ playing from the speakers inside a vintage ’50’s era snack bar. There is no mistaking that feeling of a different era, especially at the Mustang Drive-In in Guelph. The Mustang’s owners have been promoting that feeling of retro at the 1959 built drive-in on a hill […]

The Mayors ‘Chain Of Office’

The Chain of Office was commissioned by the City to mark Canada’s 100th Birthday in 1967. It is worn by the mayor at council meetings and formal functions. The chain includes 17 shields with subjects of local significance to Guelph such as a tree stump to represent the founding of Guelph by John Galt and a Horse […]

Why Is Guelph Called The ‘Royal City’?

The city of Guelph was named by founder John Galt in 1827 to honour the British Royal Family, the Hanoverians, who were descended from the House of Welf (Also known as the Guelfs or Guelph), one of the great political factions in late medieval Germany and Italy, and the ancestral family of the reigning British monarch at the time George IV. The […]

The Crown of Guelph’s St. George’s Square

There once was a crown hanging over the centre of Guelph. 11/17/1960 The rising of the decorative crown in St. George’s Square in November of 1960. A truck with a tall ladder is on the left side of the photo, with a man at the top of the ladder. The crown is made of wire […]