I came. I saw. I Guelphed.
That phrase came from some jokesters who wrote for the student newspaper at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute (it had not yet become a university) when the head of that institution, Brian Segal, became president of my alma mater. The Ryerson guys did a whole issue at that time poking fun at Guelph. Segal, who is the brother of Senator Hugh, would go on to become an important executive with Rogers Communications. I quite liked what the Ryerson guys did — I thought it was very witty — and have repeated that phrase as often as I could.
But I digress …
Sue Richards – who I was so pleased to hear from as I haven’t heard from her in ages, probably not since her days as one of the first co-conspirators to get the now world famous Hillside Festival on the map — has just alerted me to the existence of a Guelph Blog where you will find lots of things about Guelph, the Royal City, in southwestern Ontario, where I grew up and did all my schooling. The photo at the top of this post is a picture of a Canada Goose crossing the frozen Eramosa River in Guelph. I must tell my good friend Erik F. all about this site …
Now, I won’t tell you exactly which one it was but the window in one of the apartments I lived in while at the University is in this excellent picture.
” Now, I won’t tell you exactly which one it was but the window in one of the apartments I lived in while at the University is in this excellent picture.”
That would make you conveniently proximate to a large amount of local watering holes. How did you ever get any studying done?
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