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Goderich (/ ˈ ɡ ɒ d r ɪ tʃ, ˈ ɡ ɒ d ə r ɪ tʃ / GOD-rich or GOD-ə-rich) is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario and is the county seat of Huron County. The town was founded by John Galt and William "Tiger" Dunlop of the Canada Company in 1827. [ 2 ]
A replica of the original Donnelly tombstone, belonging to Ray Fazakas, on display at the Lucan Area Heritage & Donnelly museum in Lucan-Biddulph, Ontario. The "Black" Donnellys were an Irish Catholic immigrant family who settled in Biddulph township , Upper Canada (later the province of Ontario ), about 25 km northwest of London , in the 1840s.
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Originally known as Four Corners and Steene's Corners after an early settler, much of the area of what is now Seaforth was acquired by brothers Christopher and George Sparling in anticipation of the construction of the Buffalo, Brantford and Goderich Railway. Developer James Patton of Barrie purchased the land and laid out a townsite in 1855.
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The county seat is Goderich, also the county's largest community. The population reported in the 2021 Census for this predominantly agricultural area with many villages and small towns was 61,366 in a land area of 3,398 square kilometres. [1] Of the total population, 7,881 reside in Goderich. [2]