Name: Regional & Early Campus History Collections - U of G's Archival & Special Collections | Videos | Gan Jing World
Uploaded: 2023-03-13T14:29:52.848Z
Duration: 2 min 33 s
Description: The library's Archival & Special Collections develops, curates and preserves special, rare, and archival information resources and makes them accessible to the ... | Videos | Gan Jing World

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The library's Archival & Special Collections develops, curates and preserves special, rare, and archival information resources and makes them accessible to the University of Guelph community. Regional history has been an important collecting area for the library for many years. These regional archives are of academic, historic interest and include documents from the era of the War of 1812; a variety of regional family, cultural, and business papers; and information on many Guelph graduates.

Become familiar with Archival & Special Collections by visiting our website: https://www.lib.uoguelph.ca/.

Video transcript:
[Regional & Early Campus History] 
 
[Music playing] 
 
[Melissa McAfee, special collections librarian]: The regional and early campus history collections are a rich resource for studying Ontario and the region in the 19th and 20th century. The early campus history collection consists of the founding colleges from when they were established to when the University of Guelph became a university in 1965. These include the Ontario Veterinary College, the Ontario Agricultural College, and the MacDonald Institute. Records that you might expect to find in these collections include everything from photographs of student activities, we have the dance cards for major dances, photographs of homecoming, and that sort of thing, from the records of faculty and administration like the president's office. 
 
[A section of Ontario Agricultural College class photos from the collection.] 
 
[Darlene Wiltsie, archives associate]: From the Ontario Agricultural collection, I chose a picture moving the president's house in 1910. It is currently where the Creelman Hall is now located is where it was originally on campus. This picture was taken in 1910. They moved the entire building across College Avenue. I believe they put logs under the building and kind of moved each log and rolled the building across the street, moving the logs to move the building, which was pretty ingenious for 1910. 
 
[Darlene holds up the photo of the moving of the President’s house. The black and white photo shows men standing along the front side of the house which is resting on logs. Horses are also located in front of the house, which were used to help assist the movement of the house.]
 
[Darlene]: I would think that the alumni in general, are just thrilled to find things from their time period or people just researching the campus in general. It doesn't have to be on campus. It can be off-campus, people doing local research.
 
[Melissa]: Absolutely anybody is welcome to use our collections. And one way to find out about them is our website on the collections pages, which give detailed descriptions of these collections. You can also visit us in our reading room on the second floor of McLaughlin Library to talk to a reference librarian and about your research. We welcome everybody.
 
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