There have been several businesses in Guelph that a family has started. Christian Kloepfer, for example, relied on family members in the early days of his coal and carriage businesses.…
In 1872, Burr and Skinner operated a furniture factory in a newly constructed 2-storey building on the north side of Oxford. They manufactured a variety of furniture including bed frames.…
Brooms were an essential tool for Guelph’s housewives. Shopkeepers, hotel operators and other service and retail personnel also needed them to sweep floors, the sidewalks in front of their shops…
Beer and ale were important to early and even later settlers. Many innkeepers produced it on-site – small batches of a select brew they could sell in their hotels/inns. Later,…
In 1919, Live Wire, a branch of an American company, moved into the basement of a building on Metcalfe Street. At that point, it was housing FE Partridge Rubber. Charles…