Guelph
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Guelph is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", it is roughly 22 kilometres east of Kitchener and 70 kilometres west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6,
Downtown Guelph
Bust of John Galt, downtown Guelph
Part of Allan's Mill, built in 1850, still stands in downtown Guelph
Old Guelph City Hall
John Galt (novelist)
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John Galt was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Galt has been called the first political novelist in the English language, due to being the first novelist to dea
Guelph
…County Road 124. It is the seat of Wellington County, but is politically independent of it. Guelph was established in the 1820s by Scottish novelist John Galt, first superintendent of the Canada Company, who based his headquarters and home in the community. The area—much of which became Wellington County—was…
John Galt Charles Grey 1835
Canada Company office, 1834
Plaque on modern building which occupies the plot in Greenock where his father had the family house built in 1790, marking the garden entrance from Westburn Street to the upstairs flat where Galt died.
The Galt family tomb, inscribed to John Galt, "Author of The Annals of the Parish &c &c."