I almost forgot about this thread. Time for a depressing "What we lost" Guelph post.
1913
1940
Closest comparable photo to the 1940 from today.
Probably this building, our Carnegie Library...
and this building are our greatest losses.
Most of the buildings around the square in the 1940's aerial shot (near the top-right part of the image) were knocked down for an indoor mall and several god awful bank buildings.