Talk:Old Jeremiah

This section needs a bit of fact-checking, I'll merge it when I can iron out the details Sean 17:08, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

"The cannon has an illustrious history. As a prank, Guelph's agricultural students, often referred to as aggies, once used pick-up trucks to drag the cannon to the green in front of Johnston Hall, the agricultural administration building. Engineering students, not to be out-done by their rivals, dismantled the cannon and rebuilt it in front of Thornborough, the engineering building. The dispute was finally resolved when the cannon was restored it to its original place in Branion Plaza by the aggies. Another anecdote is that during the 1970s, as a sign of student protest, the cannon was rotated to face the administration offices in the University Centre building. To this day, the cannon sits as though ready to fire on the President and the Board of Governors of the university."

Some fact checking is definately in order. The version of the above story that I heard was the engineers moved it from its original location to the engineering video, by partially dismantling it (I've seen a video of this part, so I know its true). Then the Aggies tried to move it back with trucks, but didn't get it too far before the transmission on the truck gave out. The school then had to bring in a crane to move it to its current/former location. Another fact that should be checked is when it was last fired, I heard that it was fired off once (not sure when) by some students and the sound was so loud that it broke a whole bunch of windows, so they filled it with cement, which contradicts much of the first paragraph. Priester 01:58, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

I have heard about the cannon firing thing. The version I heard said that it was during a student protest in the 60s or 70s. I've also been told that the cannon was sandblasted in the 80s by the engineers, and again about 6 or seven years ago ... any input? Sean 00:49, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I've also heard that some group (I don't remember hearing it was the engineers, but thats very possible) cleaned and polished it at some point. I'm not sure of a time period. There are so many stories about the cannon, its hard to know whats true and whats not, which makes it really hard to write an encylopedia article about it (which is why I'm staying in here) Priester 23:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)