My father recounts visiting his grandfather, an inmate at Guelph, in 1926
My father died in 2020 at the age of 99.
He often told us the story of his visit to Guelph Reformatory in 1926, when he was 6 years old.
My great grandfather, his grandfather, was incarcerated there for what my father described as "Interfering" with a young woman who was a tenant in a house that he owned. He had no other details of the crime.
My grandparents took my father to visit him in jail in 1926, and my father remembered it clearly even though he was only six years old. At one point, someone asked my great-grandfather, "Do you ever take a bath?", to which he replied facetiously, "Oh yes, I bathe once a week. They wouldn't let me stay here if I didn't!"
Of course, my father was confused because he knew his grandfather had no choice but to stay there.
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