CFUW Guelph

This month our guest speaker is Dr. Cindy McMann.

Dr. McMann is a public educator with Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis. Her anti-violence work includes presentations and workshops across Guelph and Wellington County on topics such as intimate partner violence, consent and human trafficking.

Join us for this presentation on Feb. 24th.

Come out on February 7th at Guelph City Hall!

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence begins today!

CFUW will be participating in the Saturday, December 6th Vigil at Marianne’s Park (Gordon St.) at 2:00 p.m.

Check out all of the events at the link below:

https://gwwomenincrisis.org/event/16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence-2025/

Our own Susan Brown, author of ‘Love and War’ was interview by Guelph Today in honour of Remembrance Day. Check out the interview and photographs on the Guelph Today site.

Home | Love and War A book of letters. I’ve titled it “Love and War – From the Front and the Home Fronts – The letters of Lt. Col. Dr. Charles Pinch & Lt. Nursing Sister Gretta Hope.” These letters span the period from 1940 to 1944. My father, a physician, joined the 11th Field Ambulance out of Guelph Ontario...

A beautiful Remembrance Day story from one of our members.

Letters of longing: sharing a Guelph couple’s love story during WWII Susan Pinch Brown says she learned so much about her parents through a collection of 476 letters dated between 1940 and 1944 that she turned into a book

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence kicks off on November 20th. Check the link below for details of the events.

https://gwwomenincrisis.org/event/16-days-of-activism-against-gender-based-violence-2025/

On October 28, 2025, at 7:00PM CFUW Guelph will be hosting guest speaker, Dr. Emma Allen-Vercoe, Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, at the University of Guelph.

Dr. Allen-Vercoe is an internationally recognized expert in the rapidly evolving field of the human microbiome. She will be speaking to us on ‘The Human Gut Biome’. She obtained a BSc (Hons) in biochemistry in 1993 from the University of London, and her PhD in molecular microbiology through an industrial partnership with the Veterinary Laboratories Agency, conferred through the Open University in 1999.

In 2005 she chose to focus her research on the normal microbes of the human gut. As time went on, she broadened her interest to focus her research on the unculturable microbes. To assist in this, she developed a model gut system dubbed ROBOGUT. Dr. Allen-Vercoe moved her lab to the University of Guelph in 2007. She has again enlarged the scope of her research to include the gut biomes of insects such as bees. Her byline is “We are the spaceship for our microbes”.

For meeting information visit https://cfuwguelph.org/

Save the Date!!

In recognition of our 80 th Anniversary, CFUW Guelph is hosting a luncheon, featuring renowned human rights activist, journalist and filmmaker, Sally Armstrong.

‘Global Women: Gains & Setbacks’
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025
11:30 am - 3:00 pm
At Springfield Golf and Country Club
Tamarac Room
2054 Gordon St. Guelph ON N1L 1G6
Tickets $65 (available until November
14 th).

To reserve your spot, e-transfer:
[email protected]

OR

By contacting Maureen
([email protected])

On Monday, September 29, CFUW Guelph will meet with Dominique O’Rourke, MP for Guelph, to discuss pressing advocacy priorities, including Basic Income, Gender-Based Violence, and Combatting Disinformation. These conversations are an important part of our ongoing efforts to ensure women’s voices are heard in policy-making.

Come check out our library bulletin board display at the entrance of Guelph Public Library's Westminster Branch. Our display will be there until September 30th.

The exhibit highlights our club including scholarships, advocacy and community partnerships. We invite new members and the public to learn how we are making a difference locally, provincially and nationally.