In the News
Nov 15, 2024
Beef up protections in draft Ontario Reformatory plan, council told
Oct 29, 2024
LETTER: Give urban park top priority on former reformatory lands
Oct 25, 2024
National urban park plan supports Indigenous 'reconcili-action'
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/national-urban-park-plan-supports-indigenous-reconcili-action-9710734
Sept 19, 2024
Provincial heritage award for ‘driving force’ behind urban park plan
July 27, 2024
OPINION: Unfortunately, new hospitals don't just happen
July 26, 2024
City to remove street art installation from historic bridge
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/city-to-remove-street-art-installation-from-historic-bridge-9273773July 18, 2024
Urban park proposal and potential new hospital collide at reformatory
July 3, 2024
Mail Bag: Protect Prison Site
https://www.wellingtonadvertiser.com/letter/mail-bag-07-04-24/
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uly 2, 2024
Presentation: Breezy Breakfast Episode 189: Guelph's National Urban Park
https://breezybreakfastradiohour.podbean.com/e/episode-189-guelphs-national-urban-park/
June 27, 2024
Hospital or national urban park? Nearly 350 acres of former jail land
June 20, 2024
Art Gallery of Guelph honours late Anishnaabe artist
https://www.wellingtonadvertiser.com/art-gallery-of-guelph-honours-late-anishnaabe-artist/
June 12, 2024
Work by Guelph Correctional Centre inmate featured in AGG exhibit
June 4, 2024
Urban Park Guelph presents How to Build a National Urban Park
May 23, 2024
Urban Park Guelph presents How to Build a National Urban Park
May 22, 2024
Political hesitation 'galvanises' support for national urban park
May 22, 2024
Political hesitation 'galvanises' support for national urban park
May 21, 2024
LETTER: Foot dragging on 'gem' of a property is shameful
May 20 2024
To know the land Ep. 243 : A National Urban Park in Guelph
https://www.toknowtheland.com/podcast/ep243
May 18, 2024
Mayor, MP and MPP pen letter saying they don't support urban park 'at this time'
April 26, 2024
City looking to buy portion of reformatory lands? Official can't say
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/city-looking-to-buy-portion-of-reformatory-lands-officials-cant-say-8654092April 26, 2024
CBC KW Morning Edition Interview re: Lawn Sign Campaign
No Link
April 12, 2024
Province plans to tear down part of former Correctional Centre
April 3, 2024
Six Nations Supporting New National Urban Park in Guelph
https://theturtleislandnews.com/index.php/2024/04/03/six-nations-supporting-
April 1, 2024
Long-lost relatives reunited after Stratford jail fire of '76 ripped them apart
https://www.stratfordtoday.ca/local-news/long-lost-relatives-reunited-after-
stratford-jail-fire-of-76-ripped-them-apart-8522464
March 28, 2024
Interview w/ Jukasa Radio (Oshwekan)
No Link
Feb 27, 2024
Thousands sign petition to convert century-old prison to urban park in Guelph
Feb 26, 2024
Guelph urban park group hopes petition gets positive response from feds
Feb 1, 2024
It's Time For Guelph to Have a National Urban Park
https://issuu.com/ontarion/docs/196.2_issuu
Jan 30, 2024
Tourism Committee supports national urban park plan
Jan 28, 2024
The OR lands are already a park, make it official
Jan 21, 2024
A National Urban Park on the Old Correctional Centre Lands Makes so much sense
Jan 16, 2024
Group wants to turn former correctional centre in Guelph into an urban park
https://cjoy.com/news/10227879/former-correctional-centre-guelph-urban-park/
Jan 16, 2024
World News Групата иска да превърне бившия поправителен център в
Гуелф в градски парк
https://worldnews.bg/n/grupata-iska-da-prevarne-bivshiya-popravitelen-tsenta
r-v-guelf-v-gradski-park_75994/
Jan 15, 2024
The Mike Farwell Show (The interview begins at the 43.42 mark.)
https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2024/01/15/monday-january-15th-2024/
Jan 11, 2024
Interview with Brian Skerrett on Radio OPIRG, CFRU
https://www.cfru.ca/2024/01/page/20/?post_type=mcm_recording
Jan 10, 2024
Guelph’s urban park plan endorsed by Mississaugas of the Credit
Jan 9, 2024
Key endorsements back bid for national urban park on former Guelph Correctional Centre site
Nov 20, 2023
Presentation: Episode 148: Old Reformatory Lands - History, Culture, National Park?
https://breezybreakfastradiohour.podbean.com/e/episode-148-old-reformatory-l
ands-history-culture-national-park/
Oct 4, 2023
GUELPH POLITICAST #391 A National Park (If We Can Keep It)
https://guelphpolitico.ca/tag/national-urban-park/
Sept 30, 2023
Heritage advocate wants to save Indigenous murals at former jail
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.6981457
Sept 29, 2023
New advocacy group calls for urban park on former reformatory
land
https://www.guelphtoday.com/grounded/new-advocacy-group-calls-for-urban-park
-on-former-reformatory-land-7612571
Sept 29, 2023
Group wants to see Guelph's old jail lands become a national urban park
Sept 9, 2023
Calls to conserve: Reformatory murals attributed to Ojibwe artist
Sept 6, 2023
City staff want historic trestle bridge removed: report
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/city-staff-want-historic-trestle-brid
Aug 29, 2023
Province believes natural erosion caused damage to historic wall
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/province-believes-natural-erosion-cau
sed-damage-to-historic-wall-7469110
Aug 25, 2023
Province urged to restore damaged field wall at former reformatory
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/province-urged-to-restore-damaged-fie
ld-wall-at-former-reformatory-7456152
April 12, 2023
Province plans to tear down part of former Correctional Centre
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/province-plans-to-tear-down-part-of-f
ormer-correctional-centre-6842353
March 27, 2023
BEHIND THE SCENES: Hiking club urges city to purchase historic bridge from province for $1
https://www.cambridgetoday.ca/behind-the-scenes/behind-the-scenes-hiking-clu
b-urges-city-to-purchase-historic-bridge-from-province-for-1-6765333
March 22, 2023
'One-of-a-kind, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity': Guelph jail lands step closer to heritage protections
https://www.guelphmercury.com/news/council/one-of-a-kind-once-in-a-lifetime-
opportunity-guelph-jail-lands-step-closer-to/article_6e738038-aafd-5fac-8674
March 21, 2023
Hiking club tells city to buy historic bridge from province for $1
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/hiking-club-tells-city-to-buy-histori
c-bridge-from-province-for-1-6728564
March 20, 2023
'It's not just a wall': Guelph's former jail hides unknown number of paintings by inmate artist
https://www.guelphmercury.com/news/its-not-just-a-wall-guelphs-former-jail-h
ides-unknown-number-of-paintings-by-inmate/article_72ccf9d8-8ca3-5d69-99f0-3
March 7, 2023
LETTER: Save the Eramosa trestle bridge, says hiking club
https://www.guelphtoday.com/letters-to-the-editor/letter-save-the-eramosa-tr
estle-bridge-says-hiking-club-6645189
March 2, 2023
Historic wooden bridge may be torn down, says province
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/historic-wooden-bridge-may-be-torn-do
Feb 2023
Presentation: Guelph Historical Society: Valuing What We Can't See: The Ontario Reformatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RJWjc5iPAI
Sept 22, 2022
'We never thought it would take this long': Seeking public awareness, access to reformatory lands in Guelph
https://www.guelphmercury.com/news/we-never-thought-it-would-take-this-long-
seeking-public-awareness-access-to-reformatory-lands/article_d51ceba5-ad82-5
June 15, 2021
Council seeks two levels of heritage protection for former reformatory lands
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/council-seeks-two-levels-of-heritage-
protection-for-former-reformatory-lands-3872155
June 4, 2021
Activists, conservationists pushing for heritage designation on former Guelph prison
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/activists-conservationists-pushing-for-heritage
-designation-on-former-guelph-prison-1.5457046
April 13, 2021
Additional layers of protection sought for former Guelph reformatory
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/additional-layers-of-protection-sough
t-for-former-guelph-reformatory-3625342
April 3, 2024
Presentation: Yorklands Green Hub AGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RJWjc5iPAI
Feb 12, 2021
Province asks city to consider heritage designation as it readies former reformatory lands for sale
https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/province-asks-city-to-consider-herita
ge-designation-as-it-readies-former-reformatory-lands-for-sale-3370877