Caption: Extra 4577 east appears stopped at Guelph station to pickup orders. The factory at left was in use by Guelph Cotton Mills per a 1907 fire insurance map, and by 1908, taken over by the Louden Machinery Company for the manufacturing of agricultural equipment. The Aspinwall Manufacturing Company would assume operation of the site in 1912 as their only Canadian plant (seen here circa 1915) making equipment for potato farmers, including automated potato planters, sprayers, cutters, sorters, and weeders. Per a 1929 fire insurance map, the property was part of the textile industry under the Regent Knitting Company, and later by Zephyr Looms and Textiles Inc. in the late 1930s. Zephyr Looms & Textiles worked through the Second World War handling military contracts for uniform articles and other small items. Emerging from the war, the company would rebrand as Textile Industries Ltd. in December 1945, which it would operate as until closing for good in December of 1980. At some point during the 1970s a slight change in the name recognized their location in Guelph on Wyndham Street. As seen on the building, they became known as Wyndham Textile Industries Limited. The building was demolished in the early 2010s to make way for GO Transit parking.

Original Photographer Unknown, Jacob Patterson Collection Slide.