HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-06-30, Page 137Dempsey
riest at
St. Peter's
in 1831
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church
rnpbell first rector
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family was given the
meMatilda Columbiana.
Ira Lewis, longtime Crown
omey, came with his wife
is for the baptism in 1857
1e�Eddwaard Norman Little,
and finally County
dge.
Huron diocese was not
etituted until 1858, and St.
orge s was under the
shop of Toronto. When
eorgeCrookshank
son of John and
rgaret Anne Strachan,
baptized on ,Tanuary 14,
1, his godfathers were the
hop of Toronto and James
Strachan, Esquire, of
tonto.
ountry roads were
trainable, and sometimes
parents brought a whole
batch of children to be bap-
tized. On August 2, 1958,
Edward and Jane Dinsley, of
Goderich township, showed
up with 10, the eldest born in
1841, to be baptized by Rev.
E.L. Elwood.
In the early years, Mr.
(later Archdeacon) Elwood
reckoned Seaforth,
Dungannon and Port Albert
and the farming areas about
them to be under his pastoral
care. He held services in
scores of centres which he
reached on horseback or on
foot, but the register discloses
only two instances of
marriages performed by him
elsewhere than in Goderich.
These were at Clinton and
Port Albert.
by JUDGE F. G. CARTER
The unknown author of the
"Historical Sketch of the
County of Huron'' contained
in Belden's Historical Atlas of
the. County of Huron
published in 1879 tells•us that
it is a tradition that Samuel
de Champlain during his
voyage along Lake Huron in
1615.1G camped on what is
today the site of Goderich,
Between that date and 1648,.
when the Jesuit Missions on
the south shore of Georgian
Bay were destroyed by the
marauding Iroquois, fur
traders and Jesuit priests
visited the area: and it is
interesting to contemplate
that Jean de Brebeuf or
Gabriel Lalemant or some of
those other Jesuit martyrs,
assigned as• they were to
Christianize the Huron
Indians hetv.cen Georgian
n
}%ay nc.i Lake Huron, may at
one time have walked on the
h,lnk, Of the ill titland River
or looked at the sunsets from
the site of Goderich.
Following the annihilation
of the Hurons by the Iroquois
in the Mid sixteen hundreds,
there is no evidence that
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Goderich was visited by a
non -Indian until 1826, when
W. E. Goodwin and Frank
Deschamp- established an
Indian trading post at the
mouth of the Maitland River.
In June, 1827, Goderich as
such was founded by Dr.
William '`Tiger" Dunlop and
John Galt. The Tiger, who
carried about a, set of 12
bottles of whiskey, fondly
called "The 12 Apostles", and
who in his Will left some of his
property to his sister
"because she is married to a
minister, whom (God help
him!) she henpecks" and his
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