March 2017 | Business View Magazine

190 191 K nown as “The Prettiest Town in Canada,” Goderich, Ontario, is located on the eastern shore of Lake Huron at the mouth of the Maitland River. It was founded as a port town by William “Tiger” Dunlop, a Canadian army officer, surgeon, author, and politician, in 1827, and named after Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, who was Britain’s Prime Minister at the time. The town was officially incorporated in 1850. Today, Goderich is the largest port on the east side of the Lake, servicing approximately 250 vessels a year that mostly carry rock salt from the Sifto Salt Mine, the largest operating salt mine in the world, to destinations west in Michigan, south in Ohio, and north to parts of Ontario. Salt was first dis- covered in Goderich in 1866 by Sam Platt, the owner of a flour mill, who originally had set out to discover oil. Platt’s find, the first recorded salt bed in North America, set off a regional salt Goderich, Ontario The salt of the earth Ontario Goderich,