<h3>Multicultural Festival at Memorial Gardens</h3>
An Italian flag flies alongside a Canadian flag at Memorial Gardens during the Multicultural Festival (Italian Day) in 1981.
Donald Coulman
Guelph Civic Museum, Catalogue Number: 2009.32.2237
Guelph Civic Museum
1981
Guelph Civic Museum
Not applicable.
Guelph Civic Museum Collection
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Multi-Cultural Festival/Italian Day, Guelph, Ontario
Guelph, Ontario, 1981
<h3>Sartorio’s Sons of Italy Band</h3>
A 1927 photograph of the Sons of Italy in Guelph previous to the discrimination and isolation of the Second World War. Visible in the photo are both the Union Jack and the flag of the Kingdom of Italy in the background. Italy was, at the time, governed by <a title="Benito Mussolini" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini" target="_blank">Benito Mussolini</a>'s fascist regime.
Donald Coulman
Guelph Civic Museum, Catalogue Number: 2009.32.1836
Guelph Civic Museum
1927
Guelph Civic Museum
Not applicable.
Guelph Civic Museum Collection
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Sons of Italy, Guelph Ontario
1927, Guelph, Ontario
<h3>Sacred Heart School Boxing Club</h3>
The Sacred Heart School Boxing Club was composed, predominantly, of Italian youth. This photo is from 1945.
Guelph Civic Museum
Guelph Civic Museum, Catalogue Number: 1983.94.9
Guelph Civic Museum
1945
Guelph Civic Museum
Not applicable.
Guelph Civic Museum Collection
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Sacred Heart School Boxing Club, Guelph, Ontario
Guelph, Ontario, 1945
<h3>Rick Ferraro Button</h3>
Rick Ferraro is a Guelph born politician who was the first Italian-Canadian Member of Provincial Parliament. Ferraro represented Wellington South from 1985 to 1990. Ferraro advocated St. Joseph's hospital becomming an acute care facility but lost in the Bob Rae NDP victory of 1990.
Liberal Party of Ontario
Guelph Civic Museum, Catalogue Number: 2002.44.4
Guelph Civic Museum
Circa 1990
Guelph Civic Museum
Not applicable.
Guelph Civic Museum Collection
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Liberal Party Pin, Guelph, Ontario
Guelph, Ontario, Circa 1990
<h3>Mural on the side of City Vac at 93 Elizabeth Street in Guelph</h3>
A mural on the side of the City Vac shop at 93 Elizabeth Street. This mural demonstrates the continuing presence of the Italian community in Guelph.
Spencer Hamelin
The Ward Project
Spencer Hamelin
March 25th, 2013
The Ward Project
Not applicable.
The Ward Project
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Photograph
Italian and Canadian Flag Mural
93 Elizabeth Street, Guelph, Ontario