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^p •!' k �.eN 11- {b�id) nu RIM tAie'-�_'..'Pt uboa ^ ever
lent time �oontalns' ,.tchonstricted la:Goderich, at.
abitants The jail a }d. , e back of tlii.s douse, and th..
se for the,'county,; boat was, taken' to Detroit; .
y$rnment and ;county White this house was: new,'
'and the chief office oi; the town' was confined to
dada Company are Kingston street and the
ere, the senior cam-, harbor. hill, the houses on the
er of the company.former streetbeing prin-
here. There are also droll, ori the".west °'side, a
y, grist and saw mill,; fran?ii ""house on the corner,
factory, two tan. where Crabb's Block now is
Grammar School, and a log house, a little below
o newspapers ;are the present site of the
ea here, the Loyalist, International Hotel being the
final, one tory, and the only houses on the east side. :
tjcal:.There`arefive` "The' 'Market' Square was
hes : Episcopal. then a wilderness, almost the
yterian, Secession, only house upon it standing at
dist and Roman the east corner of North
street and the Square, and a
small log house stood on West
Town'of 1,070 street about where Storey's
gives the population.
newly incorporated
Goderich as 1,070, but
pulation of . Goderich
p in 1844, six years'
;was 1,673. Farm lots
essions near Goderich
e!' Bayfield road were
early.
Selden Atlas (1879)
`tical of the backward
of a town "without a
011 worth the name."
ee is a considerable
of public enterprise
'the writer concluded.
the town has- been
rated for almost 30
y have never as' yet
a town hall. There is
'has there ever been,
works in Goderich,
d'streets and buildings
plighted with coal oil..
g about the, town
to the belief that not
eearly but the present.
pi of Goderich were
a decidedly con -
se class of people, and
sent aspect is ever to
ed for that of
activity we must
Uie.enterprise of the
generation "for the
iiient."
reA Wilderness"
workmen in . May,
polished an old log•
tpKirigston street, the
;Signal published a
ent article which
es an excellent
on of the Goderich
at when five years
Dg house, "directly
the brick block
by Whitely & Elliott,
d to the Bedford
-the writer stated,
one of the relics of
Goderich. It was
about 1832, we
sly one Hodgson, and
instructed of hewn
with all the then
improvements, it
idered one of the
tbuildings.
occupied in 1833 as
one Berryman, an
an, who did"' a-'
lusiness for a time..
ter his departure,
e Crabb, brother of
Esq., carried on a
op on the premises.
ryman's time, he
Ir
tinshop, now ` is, solitary- and
alone, occupied; by Tatty
Edwards, who kept clean, and
tidy the . Brien of the young
bucked those days.
"Kingston street ran
through a perfect bog. Two
feet of water covered a spot in
the vicinity of the Tichbourne
Hotel, and when it was
proposed tg improve the
street by forming a roadbed
of cedar logs, the proposal,
was strongly opposed by
certain parties who declared`
that the ,water would . sweep.
everything away.
"The old log house. which
existed in those daysand now
takes its departure has
witnessed many chafes, has
seen the time when Kingston
street was THE business
streettw
tuatiOnsl of une Our town
has experienced, and now
gives wary to the mairch ,of
progress."':
Mrs.' William Lee, daughter
of Christopher Crabb, pioneer
merchant, could recall when
the area now occupied by the
.courthouse Square was a
swamp, and logging wasdone
by ox -team when the site was
prepared for the (first)
courthouse:
William 'S"waffield,
originally _ --engaged in
teaming settlers' effects from
Dundas to Kincardine and
Goderich, was one of those
employed in levelling the
Square. A daughter, Mrs.
G.M. Elliott, recalled:
"The streets had been
B�k
kRid
v'sha a t%17 t";by eo cors
�aitiefl T ennedy, „Chambers
and Campbell at 50 ,cents at
day "There Was. a ;,piece of
ohere Hotel Brduroy road just oppositenow
wedford
stands. When 014'2 'railroad
came in 1859, the station was
out on the Huron road and
Capt. Bluet was station-
master. When I went to
school, Kingston street was
the busiest in town, J.J.
Wright kept a hotel where
Johnston's garage is (south
side). It had,:a pump opposite
the entrance In• tile rest of the'
block were stores and a
bakery. Before we moved to
the country there were hardly
any houses between the
Bayfield road and Huron
road --just stumps, and lovely
skating ponds in winter."
15,(!!!!'elf
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