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2002.97.1 1941 Gilson Manufacturing Envelope.JPG
A letter from Gilson Manufacturing Company from 1941. The envelope has slogans pertaining to their Snowbird refrigerator line and their furnace line. In the post-war era, appliances came to dominate Gilson Manufacturing Company production.

1970.55.2 1910-1919 Book of Blank Warranty and Agreement of Purchased Forms, Gilson Manufacturing Co..JPG
This form contains a warranty on Gilson Manufacturing Company engines including a form for purchases using credit to verify the customer's ability to pay.

Sacred Heart School Boxing Club 1983.94.9.jpg
The Sacred Heart School Boxing Club was composed, predominantly, of Italian youth. This photo is from 1945.

2010.2.2 IMICO Quarter Century Club 1947.JPG
This document is the program for the innagural dinner of IMICO employees joining the Quarter Century Club. The dinner took place at Cutten Fields Golf Club on May 22nd, 1947.

1969681.JPG
The first page of a memoir created by James Walter Lyon in 1924.

2001.10.39 Lou Fontinato Biltmore Mad Hatters.JPG
Guelph local and future New York Rangers NHL player Lou Fontinato.

Prime_Minister_Mackenzie_King_speaking_with_Walter_Tucker.jpg
Prime Minister Mackenzie King meeting with future Church of the Universe founder and owner of the abandoned IMICO building Walter Tucker. This photo was taken while Tucker was MP for Rosthern, Saskatchewan.

Rick Ferraro Button.JPG
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…

Lyon Park.JPG
James Walter Lyon used the land he had purchased, not only for industry, but for parks. Lyon donated the land necessary for the creation of Riverside Park in 1905 which some suspect was a ploy at generating more traffic for Lyon's Guelph Radial…
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