Guelph City Hall is the

seat of local government The seat of government is (as defined by ''Brewer's Politics'') "the building, complex of buildings or the city from which a government exercises its authority". In most countries, the nation’s capital is also seat of its government, thus that ...

Guelph Guelph ( ; 2021 Canadian Census population 143,740) is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Kitchener and west of Downtown Toronto, at the intersection of Highway 6, Highway 7 and Wel ...

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, Canada. Designed by

Moriyama & Teshima Architects Raymond Moriyama LL. D. (born October 11, 1929) is a Canadian architect.Ra ...

and completed in 2009, the new City Hall is located adjacent to the historic Old City Hall, which itself is now serving as a Provincial Offences Courthouse. Prior to the construction of the new City Hall, municipal departments had been spread across five different downtown locations. The

Guelph Memorial Gardens The Guelph Memorial Gardens was an arena located in Guelph, Ontario. It was originally built in 1948 out of the remnants of a nineteenth-century building that had housed the Royal Winter Fair. The Gardens hosted various hockey teams over the years, ...

arena was demolished to make way for the new civic building. The City Hall was built to meet the

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standard set out by the

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. As a result, operating costs are 30 to 40 percent lower than that of a similarly sized typical office building.

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City of Guelph: Welcome to City Hall
{{Guelph Municipal government of Guelph Buildings and structures in Guelph City and town halls in Ontario