Thecannon.ca is a website brought to you by the undergraduate students at the University of Guelph.  This website has a popular Buy, Sell & Find section, event listings, news, opinion articles and more.  

Thecannon.ca has become an important part of the University of Guelph and owes its inception to a student named Max Auyeung who decided to built a site for students to buy and sell books and called it Guelphbooks.com. It turned out to be very popular, too popular in fact for one person to do as a volunteer. And so the Central Student Association and the Guelph Campus Co-op, ever wanting to preserve a good student service, bought it from him.

People in both organizations saw in the site the potential for more that a simple buy and sell spot. It was too popular to waste the opportunity of connecting with people. Like the cannon before it, folks thought that the traffic going by might be interested in more. And so, looking for an appropriate name that in a simple way could articulate the hope of doing on computers what had been done on metal, Guelphbooks.com was changed to thecannon.ca.

But what would it look like, what would it be? A committee was formed, brains were stormed, and from that came the essential idea of developing a site for news, reviews, events, academic information -- and whatever else students wanted to jam in. The committee also acknowledged that this ambitious addition would cost some money to develop and maintain, and so in the winter of 2002 the project idea was put to the student body, who approved a dedicated one-dollar per student per semester fee.

From there the work began. A web designer, programmer, editor and volunteer coordinator were hired to get the project up and running, and the web site was launched in September 2002. Since that time it and has been under constant revision and development and it is expected that this will be the case for some time to come.

As the newest communications device on campus, this site acknowledges both the legacy and the unique Guelphness of its industrial age predecessor – and all the communications vehicles in between. We are honoured to be in their company. To call yourself thecannon.ca makes the connection deliberately and forcefully: this site is a student site, this site is an open site, and this site will build on the proud history of communication that Old Jeremiah started.

For more information check out thecannon.ca