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the end of that, settler
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through the bush from with some .Yeankexperience
the members D. In what IS naw Egatern,
Dunlops P.,ertY.i•hlgItt Ontario,te qversee the, work
tattage" on tne. Vat4t eittingeut a reed through
close to- a cornfield ,the bush frOin• the township of
mod by the Indians, and, Wilmot tnGedirich, 66 miles:
of building, .42.1019 hette4s% mouth of ftlatte. Creek*, on Lake- 1114.91f." Smith
beautifully situated eall bold lioii)0,:ijotbeltkaltranc04' wrote, .,"and bad It. been
hill overlooking the WOO, lvtailied:progresio , TroperiY, fostered: and en -
called by Dr. Dunlop the •plaee*thefit01000*.#24,• couraged . by - the-, Canada
Castle,' and a dozen so of settleinant ' ''gboniakr; ' Company • might, ;,'lare this,
log cabins, comprised ' the 'Freeman, ari'ernigrant from have. become a ; place of
whole town of Goderich, most SueseX, wrote to his brother considerable
everal accounta-of the The Significance of allusions of die latter being inhab
occasion make- ee-- -te-49111110t4S--that-settlement by'Fiench Ca -dians- Laid— in"..E‘Ingialikneth n"--. - ,-, •-•-• • — - , 'The principal part of the -
.floderich very town is built on the upper 4
on of cutting down,' in Waterloo "county ,waa half-breeds. m'and
town much. r have plenty of work banks or table land above t,he
One writer statec.; that already well advanced, and is situate cl on a fine Cliff at the carpentering tradiand lake; a few houses have been
a was "destitute of . the • Dundas rbad well fronting the lake and
or stumps, and: had traVelled. The Wilmot• tauter. am well paid. . „ Two new erected near the end of the.
atly been
"The lower town comprises
, -shops arejust eStablished and - cliffs, among which is the log
ago by the Indians! who 1P67, has a sketch map of the a few acres of alluvial flat
also a land office. A•tavern is house raised by Dr. Dunlop..
cleare, , in
d in
any township history, published ,
Riveted it with bora." township (the Baden -New
only a few feet elevated above now about finished. There int . which is still standing; but
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"at the top of the hill Hamburg area) showing
the river. I plowed up this flat butcher set up;.sq that we nbw the principal buildings, and
fbur
had a ,clearing made" ' east -west roads, the Erbof land for the benefit of the get a,
Company .and sowed it .with ' piece of beef at • the most business portion of
ilt a log house„7,Whie.h. Snider, Plegm's and Huron
the spring of '29, and threepence a pound, which is the town, are situated atsome
Iso the Canada .Com a- roads, all connecoats in
ting with thethought to' bc.veri high. The little distance back from the
'therefore I can C141111 t the' gri/Elt,..111,21/:....i°;...tpeete4 to be lake
10callY a$ Dundas road. .
ffice, known
honor 'of putting the first RP,'"e.4-wa 1.1%"1". : "The origihal buildings
,s Castle. Probably it The road to Goderich was
it remained, or some Strickland built a hhuse about Huron Tract. I also put in four' no minister settled here, the alt of log, and the great.
but now there is a number of theSe tenements
gremained, in Harbor. where the present lighthouse acres of wheat at the top of - nearest' church was 40 miles
stands. He had' come to the the hill near -the castleolf, still renuiining (retained,
gate 1,870s. • ,• fall of the same year, the Methodist minister here, and seemingly, as if cherished for
a diary, He recorded after the Dunlop party, and. in the spring. The post runs their antiquity', give a very
backwoods, and certainly not
on Burwell, surveyor, Huron Tract less than a year I expect a chapel will be built
May 28, 1927, . spent three years in the
he from Guelph to this place a very elegant appearance to
yeti out half an acre in Goderich settlement. In a every fortnight." the place. A few good houses
only• two pages have been erected within the
diful situation on the . twoNolunie work of 650 pages When W.H. Smith compiled
of the Menesetting, , he required 11113 book; Canada!, Past, last few years, but far fewer
men underbrushed for his description of
dded to, from -dine to cut through by July, 1828, and plough into the, ground of the ' "When I came, there w• as were, as a matter of course,
yield of which was upwards of
90 bushels to the acre, a good
yield for any country,
especially when it is con-
sidered that at least one -
twelfth of the ground may be
fairly deducted for stumps of
trees, stones and other ob-
structions, usually found in
all new clearings, •
.,,"I bought a small lo ,,, ouse
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-and town lot from a :,g. ench
Canadian. . . At th time
there was only one sawmill in ,houses retained "as if
the whole Company's k. ' act, 'cherished for their an-
andZthat was 10 miles,,, p the '':tiquity."
river, situated neat the "Goderich'is finely situated
Present and Future, in 1851 than might have been ex -
May 30: "I laid the Goderich, presumably
'on of the house (22' because thee was then not
sad the kitchen (15' by much to describe.
obn Galt, Canada
lay commissioner, Dozen log cabins
d by water from
M July, and named "I was quite delighted with
town Goderich. He the situation of Goderich," he
lop are counted co- wrote, "though the town -plot
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was only just surveyed. Three
'commissioned Samuel frame houses were in process
Huron countY had been set up pected...
and Goderich incorporatedas "On the whole, the districttown of a large district, the
a. town, with 1,070 inhabitants,
headquarters of the Canada
but the author noted only
"slow progress," and com-
Company, and the only
mented disparagingly upon
shipping port for.many miles
of coast, the place has made
the high' proportion of log but slow progress. At present,
there appear to be slight signs,
of resuscitation. Goderich at
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