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Goderich - Ontario
Huron County. Photo © Mark Visser

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Area Information
A plaque located in Harbour Park on the site of Tiger Dunlop's log 'castle' records Goderich's beginnings.
The plaque reads:"In 1826 the Canada Company, a newly chartered colonization firm, acquired a large block of land known as the Huron Tract. The following year, William "Tiger" Dunlop, appointed Warden of the Forests by the Company's first superintendent, John Galt, established his base here in the western part of the tract. Named Goderich after the Colonial Secretary Viscount Goderich, the site was initially marked only by 'The Castle', Dunlop's residence, but a settlement gradually developed.
By 1829 the Canada Company had surveyed a town plot, opened the Huron Road from Guelph and established an office. In 1841 Goderich became the administrative and judicial centre for the newly created Huron District. Nine years later, with a population of about 1000, the community was incorporated as a town."


 
 
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