It Happened Here: Royal Opera House to the River Run Theatre
Banner Image: Royal Opera House Performance, c. 1899. 2009.32.1893, Guelph Museums In this episode of It Happened Here, Education Coordinator Ken Irvine shines a spotlight on the stages and screens…
Tales from the Hill – Guelph Guild of Storytellers
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaTales from the Hill returns to the Civic Museum in-person! Tales from the Hill is presented by the Guelph Guild of Storytellers and features a guest teller in addition to Guild tellers.
Military Lecture: Canadians in the Turkish War of Independence, 1919-1922
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaAt the end of the First World War, as a result of the Mudros Armistice, the Ottoman State was occupied by Allies. British, French, Italian and Greek forces have occupied some strategic locations and cities within Turkey. By May 1919, the Turkish War of Independence started under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in Anatolia.
Who What Wear: 200 Years of Local Fashion
Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaTold through the clothes they wore and the pictures they took, Who What Wear shares stories and experiences of people in the place we have called Guelph for over 200…
Military Lecture: We Both Survived – The Soldier-Horse Relationship in the First World War
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaHorses and mules were essential to the ability of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces to operate in the First World War. Equines hauled supplies, ammunition, artillery, as well as acted as cavalry. Working alongside each other across the Western Front, soldiers developed relationships with their equine charges.
It Happened Here: The Dairy Bush
Banner Image: Mills Hall, Ontario Agricultural College, c. 1930. 2005.48.4, Guelph Museums Reforestation, buried ciders, and a sky hill - The Dairy Bush had it all! In this episode of…
No Word For Art: Exploring the Indigenous Roots of Creativity
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaTold from historical and contemporary perspectives, and through the story of beads, guest curator Naomi Smith shares the ways of the First Nations people of the Woodlands and Northeastern regions…
Military Lecture: Duty, Honour & Izzat – The Sikh Military Tradition
Guelph Civic Museum 52 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario, CanadaFrom the Mughal and British Empires, to the Anglo Sikh Wars, Great Wars, the UN, and beyond, the Sikhs continue to have a long, rich and colourful military history. Unfortunately, their contributions have largely been not only forgotten but intentionally kept out of historical narratives both past and present.