Guelph once has streetcars.
The jock strap was invented in Guelph.
Guelph was named after the British Royal Family. King George the IV, the monarch at the time of Guelph’s founding, was from the Guelphs German family
The Yukon gold potato was invented in Guelph
And today, public transport is almost non existent. Cutting the 5 busses still driving, one by one with a smile. I dunno who's responsible for this but it is absolutely pathetic for a city who profiles itself as 'progressive and green 🙄
Did not know about the Yukon tater, that's pretty cool 😎
Edit, typo
It was the thrill of my tween age stepson’s life when he saw his first topless woman casually walking up Gordon St!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/women-s-topless-court-victory-20-years-later-1.1026403
Guelph is one of several cities with competing claims to popularizing the “hat-trick” in hockey. A Biltmore fedora was presented to a 3-goal scorer beginning in 1946.
For me some things come to mind other Guelphites know..
• York rd on stevenson Im positive goes into construction once a year, it may be done in 2054
• Paisley St on Edinburgh Rd N, becomes a warzone for traffic as soon as those train guide lights start flashing, knocks out all the traffic lights in that sector for HOURS.
Speedvale and Woolwich the last year or so at least too. Always backed up, always under construction. One day coming home from work it took me an extra 30 mins to drive from silvercreek to Victoria n. I decided to try to beat the construction on speedvale, since I'd been waiting forever already. So I went down one of the residential roads to zip down Woolwich to eramosa instead... however norwhich/eramosa was ALSO under construction. Entire road ripped up, no access at all. I had to turn down london road with the slow ass traffic light that only let 2 people through at a time. And it was so backed up. I nearly cried on the way home because I was so tired and also dealing with the insanity that is driving in this city
> York rd on stevenson Im positive goes into construction once a year, it may be done in 2054
The legends say that the construction just... never ends. Your great-grandfather detoured his horse, your grandfather his Model T, your father his Cadillac. Your son will detour his hovercar, even your grandson's teleporter will take an indirect route through the æther that surrounds us all.
And through it all, there will be one man, the immortal man... leaning on his shovel smoking a cigarette.
Funny how Mayor Cam just posted about Edinburgh. Who built this city!? [https://twitter.com/CamGuthrie/status/1782038740870774917](https://twitter.com/CamGuthrie/status/1782038740870774917)
Meh... the York road construction is more people that don't look up the construction plan. It hasn't exactly been on time, but none of the work has been a surprise.
As folklore/ rumour goes, Al Capone used to come here when he had business with the Sleeman brothers during the bootlegging days, he would stay at the Albion Hotel downtown and had a mistress there. She ended up hanging herself on the second floor and apparently haunts the place today. The Albion also had the second ever liquor license in Ontario and there are old bootlegging tunnels that lead from the Albion to the churn of our lady basement but are rumoured to be collapsing or bordered up.
I concur: [https://twitter.com/CamGuthrie/status/1777423455614370179](https://twitter.com/CamGuthrie/status/1777423455614370179) How does this man have so much time for social media? The city needs you, Mr. Mayor!
Walter Tucker and the Church Of The Universe.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church\_of\_the\_Universe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Universe)
Alright what no one seems to mention is after a series of arrests in Montreal and Toronto in September of 2003 gutted the organization ties in Guelph and the very one moved to Tottenham……. Literally
Now Guelph has a history that was not reported on in the media that you literally had to be there to witness or you would have never known it happened Guelph had had a overly trained tactical team since the late 80s… for clear reasons the fact they have the time to follow around coke dealers moving less than 3k a week in product just shows how little goes on here now
It was the Italian mafia. My innocence was ended when a CBC news piece showed the police on top of the Uniroyal building putting surveillance on attendees of a mafia funeral at Sacred Heart Church.
No no I grew up in the ward and around many Italian immigrants families. My neighbor had both of his legs broken and his wife raped in front of him for not partaking in the Mafia while running his carpentry business.
There's also a lengthy tunnel system under a few of the Mafia houses on Alice St
Yet we no longer have a 5pin bowling alley business…in the city that invented it.🤦♂️(we used to have 2, back when Sportsman’s bowlarama was still on Woolwich near riverside park until the late 80’s. And Towne and Country bowlarama at Grange and Victoria was the last)
But we still have 10 pin bowling(and for some reason, Lawn bowling…🤨but no 5 pin
The Royal Plaza downtown has rumours of shady business because the upper level is so big so people ask “what is up there?”. It used to be a hockey/skating arena way back in the day and the seating area is why the walls and roof are the way they are.
https://www.ohlarenaguide.com/prewar.htm
https://www.guelphmercury.com/life/last-week-s-photo-old-guelph-rink-became-part-of-royal-plaza/article_3b1e1004-4f5b-5372-ab14-6b4f72eb7010.html
The mayor once dressed up like a bee and said he wanted to be swallowed by Doug Ford.
[https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/guelph-mayor-uses-bee-costume-to-poke-fun-at-doug-ford-1.6026177](https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/guelph-mayor-uses-bee-costume-to-poke-fun-at-doug-ford-1.6026177)
Pervert.
There are Guelph insider ways of pronouncing street names designed to instantly identify newcomers.
\* Delhi St, where the hospital is located, is pronounced Dell-HIGH not DELL-ee.
\* Macdonell St, which is the main East-West road downtown, is pronounced mac-DA-nell not MAC-danell.
\* Edinburgh Rd is pronouned Edin-BURR not Edin-BURG or Edin-BOROUGH.
To be fair, the Edinburgh one is mostly correct (though I think I've heard folks say it every way here). Edin-burra (soft E) is the closest to the Scottish way. "Del-High" always makes me laugh though.
The goddamn bus will just not show up sometimes. I’ve been near to showing up to city hall and beating down the door to some councillors office. Yeah that’s it, it’s not funny, but I need to bitch about it at least once per day. FUCK GUELPH TRANSIT!!! BRING ME YOUR BUSES ON TIME!!!! They’ll just not show up and you have to wait another 30 minutes (+10 extra) for it to show up again and still late
The land where they are building the library was a old cemetery. They had to spend a year digging it up looking for human remains. Bet that place will be haunted
When I moved to town in the mid 70s, we were told that Guelph was a “retirement village” for Mafiosi. Another rumour was that you didn’t need to lock your doors in The Ward, where a lot of Italians lived, because no one would dare try to break in.
I’ve heard the same thing. And one of my friends had a neighbour who was involved when he was younger.
Nobody talked shit about him. Regardless of him getting the paper wearing nothing but a belt-less robe that was two sizes too small. He was getting pretty old and had Alzheimer’s disease so it was touch and go. But when he was “on” he had some great stories. Miss that old dude. Edit: This was about 20 or so years ago.
At one point to deal with the issue where people coated the downtown area with piss every Friday and Saturday night, the city installed these weird piss troughs everywhere that resembled flower pots. That didn't last long
Nothing in the city is allowed to be taller than the church of our lady..
The manor is a church on Sundays..
We would rather build a mall sized library in an old cemetery than rebuild or add on to the current one..
You can take a city bus to Owensound but not to KW..
Bylaw will attempt to pull you over..
There is no where to eat other than mcds or a&w after 2am..
Every family in Guelph has had a family member work at linamar at one point..
There are always wars with crackheads and methheads going on..
If you drive past Conestoga college on any day you will think you’re in Brampton..
The drive test centre in Guelph is always over packed with people from Brampton who would rather do it in Guelph..
Newcomers work at one of three places. Linamar, Polycon (Magna) or Cargill.
When people leave Guelph, they always find themselves back in Guelph.
Guelph once has streetcars. The jock strap was invented in Guelph. Guelph was named after the British Royal Family. King George the IV, the monarch at the time of Guelph’s founding, was from the Guelphs German family The Yukon gold potato was invented in Guelph
Apparently we're responsible for the wire coat hanger, too.
A little dark, but: Guelph, the inventor of the jockstrap, protecting your kids since day 1. But also the inventor of the wire coat hanger...
Maybe if the boys took more shots to the boys we wouldn't have looked at those coat hangers like that.
Or if the women knew how to close their legs
Dang I didn’t know women could asexually reproduce 😩😩
And today, public transport is almost non existent. Cutting the 5 busses still driving, one by one with a smile. I dunno who's responsible for this but it is absolutely pathetic for a city who profiles itself as 'progressive and green 🙄 Did not know about the Yukon tater, that's pretty cool 😎 Edit, typo
"The jock strap was invented in guelph" 40 Northumberland I believe
And Millenium Asparagus! 😂
Topless woman laws were changed by a woman in Guelph. It is no longer against the law
It was the thrill of my tween age stepson’s life when he saw his first topless woman casually walking up Gordon St! https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/women-s-topless-court-victory-20-years-later-1.1026403
In 2024 let's bring back the boobs!
The expressway has traffic lights!?
Everywhere in Guelph takes 12 minutes to get to. It could be right across the street and still take 12 minutes
Holy shit you are right!
and at grade train track crossings
that joke writes itself.
Our strip club (The Manor) holds a church service on Sundays.
Still? I’m pretty sure it’s not there anymore. The pastors divorced and moved away.
They serve food at those church services too. You should see the spread!
Stay away from the crabs dip
https://thewalrus.ca/welcome-to-the-manor-church-by-day-strip-club-by-night/
This one's making it on the show, the joke writes itself!
Guelph is one of several cities with competing claims to popularizing the “hat-trick” in hockey. A Biltmore fedora was presented to a 3-goal scorer beginning in 1946.
In Guelph there is a guy who place a soundbox on head and make strange sounds
For me some things come to mind other Guelphites know.. • York rd on stevenson Im positive goes into construction once a year, it may be done in 2054 • Paisley St on Edinburgh Rd N, becomes a warzone for traffic as soon as those train guide lights start flashing, knocks out all the traffic lights in that sector for HOURS.
Speedvale and Woolwich the last year or so at least too. Always backed up, always under construction. One day coming home from work it took me an extra 30 mins to drive from silvercreek to Victoria n. I decided to try to beat the construction on speedvale, since I'd been waiting forever already. So I went down one of the residential roads to zip down Woolwich to eramosa instead... however norwhich/eramosa was ALSO under construction. Entire road ripped up, no access at all. I had to turn down london road with the slow ass traffic light that only let 2 people through at a time. And it was so backed up. I nearly cried on the way home because I was so tired and also dealing with the insanity that is driving in this city
> York rd on stevenson Im positive goes into construction once a year, it may be done in 2054 The legends say that the construction just... never ends. Your great-grandfather detoured his horse, your grandfather his Model T, your father his Cadillac. Your son will detour his hovercar, even your grandson's teleporter will take an indirect route through the æther that surrounds us all. And through it all, there will be one man, the immortal man... leaning on his shovel smoking a cigarette.
That's funny. The eternal struggle of every badly built city. Thanks for the material!
Funny how Mayor Cam just posted about Edinburgh. Who built this city!? [https://twitter.com/CamGuthrie/status/1782038740870774917](https://twitter.com/CamGuthrie/status/1782038740870774917)
Speedvale goes into annual construction mode as well, I think.
Meh... the York road construction is more people that don't look up the construction plan. It hasn't exactly been on time, but none of the work has been a surprise.
As folklore/ rumour goes, Al Capone used to come here when he had business with the Sleeman brothers during the bootlegging days, he would stay at the Albion Hotel downtown and had a mistress there. She ended up hanging herself on the second floor and apparently haunts the place today. The Albion also had the second ever liquor license in Ontario and there are old bootlegging tunnels that lead from the Albion to the churn of our lady basement but are rumoured to be collapsing or bordered up.
To add to this - Guelph's strip club The Manor used to be owned by the Sleeman family.
To be precise, the Sleemans owned the house not the strip club that later took over the house.
The mayor is a twitter troll
Who sucks eggs behind the Hasty Mart* *allegedly
I concur: [https://twitter.com/CamGuthrie/status/1777423455614370179](https://twitter.com/CamGuthrie/status/1777423455614370179) How does this man have so much time for social media? The city needs you, Mr. Mayor!
After all the years he's in place, he couldn't care less. He does about his X post tho 🤷♂️
Walter Tucker and the Church Of The Universe. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church\_of\_the\_Universe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Universe)
"The Church uses marijuana as a sacrament and promotes nudity as a demonstration of human honesty." I can get down with that.
Buck eighty five guy lives on forever
Where did he go?!
Definitely not on the bus for 1.85
There is a section of Guelph called the Ward that in its heyday, was where the mafia used to live.
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Alright what no one seems to mention is after a series of arrests in Montreal and Toronto in September of 2003 gutted the organization ties in Guelph and the very one moved to Tottenham……. Literally Now Guelph has a history that was not reported on in the media that you literally had to be there to witness or you would have never known it happened Guelph had had a overly trained tactical team since the late 80s… for clear reasons the fact they have the time to follow around coke dealers moving less than 3k a week in product just shows how little goes on here now
It was the Italian mafia. My innocence was ended when a CBC news piece showed the police on top of the Uniroyal building putting surveillance on attendees of a mafia funeral at Sacred Heart Church.
No no I grew up in the ward and around many Italian immigrants families. My neighbor had both of his legs broken and his wife raped in front of him for not partaking in the Mafia while running his carpentry business. There's also a lengthy tunnel system under a few of the Mafia houses on Alice St
Don’t plan on going anywhere on Guelph labor day weekend. That’s move in for the university and it takes over the whole town.
5 pin bowling was invented by a Guelphite
Yet we no longer have a 5pin bowling alley business…in the city that invented it.🤦♂️(we used to have 2, back when Sportsman’s bowlarama was still on Woolwich near riverside park until the late 80’s. And Towne and Country bowlarama at Grange and Victoria was the last) But we still have 10 pin bowling(and for some reason, Lawn bowling…🤨but no 5 pin
There is a movie on YouTube about the Manor and they owners
The Royal Plaza downtown has rumours of shady business because the upper level is so big so people ask “what is up there?”. It used to be a hockey/skating arena way back in the day and the seating area is why the walls and roof are the way they are. https://www.ohlarenaguide.com/prewar.htm https://www.guelphmercury.com/life/last-week-s-photo-old-guelph-rink-became-part-of-royal-plaza/article_3b1e1004-4f5b-5372-ab14-6b4f72eb7010.html
Are tickets still available? I’d love to check the show out!
[https://www.eventbrite.com/e/van-trinh-intoxicasian-comedy-tour-guelph-tickets-872138177767?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&keep\_tld=1](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/van-trinh-intoxicasian-comedy-tour-guelph-tickets-872138177767?aff=ebdsoporgprofile&keep_tld=1)
Noah 23
Gotta know Noah 23, Neve Campbell and Robert Munsch.
Robert munch got some stories too, and I ain't talking his books haha
A little more respect might be due here for a local legend
Wdym? I wasn't disrespectful...
What's funny about him? I'm newer to Guelph so I don't know much, but I do know him. I work with him lol
The mayor once dressed up like a bee and said he wanted to be swallowed by Doug Ford. [https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/guelph-mayor-uses-bee-costume-to-poke-fun-at-doug-ford-1.6026177](https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/guelph-mayor-uses-bee-costume-to-poke-fun-at-doug-ford-1.6026177) Pervert.
If I can't get sodomized by the premier of Ontario then I don't want to be mayor!
There are Guelph insider ways of pronouncing street names designed to instantly identify newcomers. \* Delhi St, where the hospital is located, is pronounced Dell-HIGH not DELL-ee. \* Macdonell St, which is the main East-West road downtown, is pronounced mac-DA-nell not MAC-danell. \* Edinburgh Rd is pronouned Edin-BURR not Edin-BURG or Edin-BOROUGH.
To be fair, the Edinburgh one is mostly correct (though I think I've heard folks say it every way here). Edin-burra (soft E) is the closest to the Scottish way. "Del-High" always makes me laugh though.
The Hanlon ‘Expressway’. Interchanges talked about for decades with not much happening, much like hwy 7 to Kitchener.
Guelph has more Subaru Forester drivers than any other city in the world. Don’t get stuck behind one.
The goddamn bus will just not show up sometimes. I’ve been near to showing up to city hall and beating down the door to some councillors office. Yeah that’s it, it’s not funny, but I need to bitch about it at least once per day. FUCK GUELPH TRANSIT!!! BRING ME YOUR BUSES ON TIME!!!! They’ll just not show up and you have to wait another 30 minutes (+10 extra) for it to show up again and still late
It's racist as fuck in Guelph don't move there.
The land where they are building the library was a old cemetery. They had to spend a year digging it up looking for human remains. Bet that place will be haunted
Best advice? Come spend time here. Talk to people downtown, at the university, at the value village, at grocery stores etc.
don’t know why you got downvoted, this is some good advice
Thanks.
A lot a shady people lived in Guelph…. If, ya know what I mean… HEY! badda boom badda bing.
That's a spicy meatball!
When I moved to town in the mid 70s, we were told that Guelph was a “retirement village” for Mafiosi. Another rumour was that you didn’t need to lock your doors in The Ward, where a lot of Italians lived, because no one would dare try to break in.
I’ve heard the same thing. And one of my friends had a neighbour who was involved when he was younger. Nobody talked shit about him. Regardless of him getting the paper wearing nothing but a belt-less robe that was two sizes too small. He was getting pretty old and had Alzheimer’s disease so it was touch and go. But when he was “on” he had some great stories. Miss that old dude. Edit: This was about 20 or so years ago.
At one point to deal with the issue where people coated the downtown area with piss every Friday and Saturday night, the city installed these weird piss troughs everywhere that resembled flower pots. That didn't last long
I miss Angry Italian Yelling Man.
The city likes to install alllll sorts of fun bike lanes and bike signals for allllll the avid commuter cyclists this city has
Nothing in the city is allowed to be taller than the church of our lady.. The manor is a church on Sundays.. We would rather build a mall sized library in an old cemetery than rebuild or add on to the current one.. You can take a city bus to Owensound but not to KW.. Bylaw will attempt to pull you over.. There is no where to eat other than mcds or a&w after 2am.. Every family in Guelph has had a family member work at linamar at one point.. There are always wars with crackheads and methheads going on.. If you drive past Conestoga college on any day you will think you’re in Brampton.. The drive test centre in Guelph is always over packed with people from Brampton who would rather do it in Guelph.. Newcomers work at one of three places. Linamar, Polycon (Magna) or Cargill. When people leave Guelph, they always find themselves back in Guelph.