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Multicultural Festival at Memorial Gardens
An Italian flag flies alongside a Canadian flag at Memorial Gardens during the Multicultural Festival (Italian Day) in 1981.
Gilson Manufacturing Envelope
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.
Book of Blank Warranty and Agreement of Purchase Forms
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.
Bag From Gilson Manufacturing Company
A bag, likely from Gilson's early period manufacturing farm machinery.
Sacred Heart School Boxing Club
The Sacred Heart School Boxing Club was composed, predominantly, of Italian youth. This photo is from 1945.
IMICO Quarter Century Club Inaugural Dinner Program, 1947
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.
Some Recollections of James Walter Lyon
The first page of a memoir created by James Walter Lyon in 1924.
Lou Fontinato, The Biltmore Mad Hatters
Guelph local and future New York Rangers NHL player Lou Fontinato.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King Speaking With Walter Tucker
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
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
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…