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 866 <strong>History of the Family Name</strong>
866 History of the Family Name
Excerpt from "The House Belongs To The Government" by G. Kent Gooderham
published by George C.K. Gooderham
Owner of original: GKG
Date: 5 Feb 2015
 
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1740-1832 Our Gooderham Homestead is a Heritage Listed Building
1740-1832 Our Gooderham Homestead is a Heritage Listed Building
This story describes how we found our Gooderham homestead in Scole, England. Not only did our three ancestors grow up here, their father James Gooderham did too and so did his father, John, perhaps from the time he married Elizabeth Cobb around 1740.
 
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1802 <strong>William Gooderham’s Early Years in England</strong>
1802 William Gooderham’s Early Years in England
William's youth until emigrating from England. Describes his army career with the Royal York Rangers including his work as a remittance man, apparently the source of his wealth.
Owner of original: GG
Date: 29 Oct 2018
 
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1831 <strong>The Adventure Begins</strong>
1831 The Adventure Begins
By Douglas Worts
The motivating origins for the move to Canada and the family partnership.
Owner of original: DW
Date: 10 Sep 2015
 
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1831 Where are the Journals of James Worts?
1831 Where are the Journals of James Worts?
This story describes two journals written by James Worts, used as source material by E.B. Shuttleworth in The Windmill and Its Times about the Distillery. But what happened to the first journal and what stories of our beginnings in Canada have we lost with the journal's disappearance.
Owner of original: Douglas Worts
 
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1834 <strong>This is a Yankee Place</strong>
1834 This is a Yankee Place
A story about selling wheat to the Gooderham Mill.
Owner of original: GG
Date: 3 Dec 2018
 
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1837 <strong> Mr. Cawthra's Bags of Gold</strong>
1837 Mr. Cawthra's Bags of Gold
According to Louisa Gooderham Walker Score, during the rebellion, the mill was used to store articles of value and “Mr. Cawthra’s bags of gold”
Owner of original: GG
Date: 10 Jan 2019
 
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1844 <strong> The First Babies Christened in Little Trinity Church</strong>
1844 The First Babies Christened in Little Trinity Church
Little Trinity Church was supported by members of the Gooderham and Worts families from its earliest days and contributed heavily to both World Wars.
Owner of original: GG
Date: Mar 25 2019
 
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1846 <strong>Twenty-Nine Children in William and Harriet Gooderham’s Care</strong>
1846 Twenty-Nine Children in William and Harriet Gooderham’s Care
After tragedy struck the Worts family, William and Harriet Gooderham had 29 children under their roof
Owner of original: GG
Date: Jun 2019
 
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1854 Letters to William Henry Beatty from his father James Beatty (father-in-law of Charlotte Louisa (Worts) Beatty)
1854 Letters to William Henry Beatty from his father James Beatty (father-in-law of Charlotte Louisa (Worts) Beatty)
Now and then we are lucky enough to stumble on a detailed account that a settler has left for posterity. James Beatty, the father of William Henry Beatty and the father-in-law of Charlotte Louisa (Worts) Beatty, left just such an account. Written in September, 1854, the account takes the form of a series of letters written to his son William Henry...describing his very eventful and difficult life.
Owner of original: GG
Date: Jun 2019
 
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1857 Canada’s Largest Patent Medicine Company - The Northrop and Lyman Story
1857 Canada’s Largest Patent Medicine Company - The Northrop and Lyman Story
George Horace Gooderham’s father-in law, Henry Stephen Northrop and his partner, John Lyman, built what was at one time, Canada' biggest patent Medicine company.
 
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1863 Alice Worts – Toronto’s First Skating Champion
1863 Alice Worts – Toronto’s First Skating Champion
Alice Worts won Toronto’s first skating championship in 1863
 
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1863 William Henry Beatty established Beatty and Chadwick which became the principal law firm to the Gooderham and Worts empire
1863 William Henry Beatty established Beatty and Chadwick which became the principal law firm to the Gooderham and Worts empire
Owner of original: C. Ian Kyer
 
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1864 A Run on the Bank of Toronto
1864 A Run on the Bank of Toronto
A Story by J.W. L. Forster, a painter who painted William Gooderham Sr and Jr and William George Gooderham. The story is based on a tale told by William Sr as he sat for the portrait.
Owner of original: GG
Date: Jun 2019
 
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1868 The Fence around Osgoode Hall
1868 The Fence around Osgoode Hall
Osgoode Hall is surrounded by an intricate iron fence that runs the length of Queen Street. In 1868 the ornate fence was completed. It was built by William Gooderham's son, Henry's father-in-law, William Hamilton.
Owner of original: GG
Date: Sept 2019
 
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1869 Great Fire of ‘69
1869 Great Fire of ‘69
At six o’clock on Tuesday, October 26, 1869 – just as William Gooderham and his family were sitting down for dinner (or “tea”) – a small cask of benzene caught fire and exploded in the fermenting cellar of his 1860 Stone Distillery, precipitating a night of high drama by the Lake.

Sally Gibson, The Distillery Archivist tells this tale...
Owner of original: Reprinted with permission from the author, Sally Gibson and from Mathew Rosenblatt, www.distilleryheritage.com
 
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1870 The Gooderham Mansion is built in Meadowvale
1870 The Gooderham Mansion is built in Meadowvale
In 1870 William Gooderham built a large red brick Georgian Survival style mansion in Meadowvale, decorated with ornate Italianate features at a cost of $30,000, for William’s youngest son, Charles Horace, known as Holly. It still stands today, renovated into a Montessori School.
 
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1873 How the Town of Gooderham Got its Name
1873 How the Town of Gooderham Got its Name
If you celebrated the way the fine citizens of Gooderham, Ontario did (or so the story goes) perhaps you too would want to rename your home town after the source of your merry making. Or did that really happen?
Owner of original: GG
 
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1879 A Sad Railway Accident
1879 A Sad Railway Accident
A sad railway accident occurred near Toronto resulting in the death of James Gooderham, son of William Gooderham.
 
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1879 John Goes West
1879 John Goes West
The story of Ezekiel's grandson, John Hamilton Gooderham, heading west at the government's request, to help the indigenous people with farming techniques.
 
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1880 Tons of Cow Poop
1880 Tons of Cow Poop
Gooderham began fattening cattle and hogs in the late 1830s, and by 1841 he had established a large dairy on a nine acre site between Trinity and Cherry Streets, across from the mill.
Owner of original: https://maps.library.utoronto.ca/dvhmp/gooderham-dis.html and Tracing the Social and Environmental History of the Don River, Bonnell, J. (2008)
 
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1881 Toronto Island Connections
1881 Toronto Island Connections
By the 1880s, the successful distillers appeared to have more leisure time to enjoy. Although founding partner William Gooderham, who died in 1881, does not appear to have been a yachtsman, his sons and descendants ranked among some of the keenest and most successful of Toronto’s sailors.
Owner of original: published online under Heritage Snippets, August 3, 2008, at http://www.distilleryheritage.com
 
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1885 and 1911 Military and Musical Interests of Sir Albert E. Gooderham
1885 and 1911 Military and Musical Interests of Sir Albert E. Gooderham
Article describing Sir Albert E. Gooderham's involvement with the Royal Grenadiers and with the advancement of musical institutions including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Owner of original: Ian Kyer
 
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1885 The race across the lake in a terrible storm to stop the fire
1885 The race across the lake in a terrible storm to stop the fire
In 1885, the Oriole was in Niagara with her owner, George Gooderham aboard when the Esplanade fire threatened the Gooderham family distillery and elevator. The flames were visible across the lake and Oriole dashed for home, driven by an easterly gale. In mid-lake, she opened up and barely made the north shore, never to sail again as George ordered her career brought to an honourable close.
Owner of original: RCYC
 
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1889 George at the Poor Man Reserve
1889 George at the Poor Man Reserve
Tells the story of George Hamilton Gooderham's early years on the reserve
 
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1890 Victoria College’s move from Cobourg to Toronto was strongly opposed
1890 Victoria College’s move from Cobourg to Toronto was strongly opposed
Victoria College’s move from Cobourg to Toronto was controversial and it was all because of a conditional legacy left by William Gooderham Jr in 1889.
 
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1891 The Gooderham Building
1891 The Gooderham Building
History of the Gooderham Building in Toronto and the surrounding area. Bruce Bell describes the growth of early Toronto from its humble beginnings to the building of the Bank of Toronto and The Gooderham building (also known as the Flatiron building) at Church and Wellington Streets. Built by George Gooderham as offices to manage the growing enterprises in which Gooderhams were engaged.
Owner of original: Bruce Bell
Date: Jul 2002
 
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1891-1906 “They Play Too Rough” – Growing Up at 504 Jarvis Street
1891-1906 “They Play Too Rough” – Growing Up at 504 Jarvis Street
About growing up in the house that George Horace built at 504 Jarvis St., Toronto
 
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1897 Christmas at Waveney
1897 Christmas at Waveney
Describing Xmas for the grandchildren at George Gooderham's home Waveney (now the York Club) at St. George St. and Bloor.
 
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1903 Tunnels Under the King Edward Hotel and Gooderham Building?
1903 Tunnels Under the King Edward Hotel and Gooderham Building?
Tunnels are rumoured to exist under the King Edward Hotel and Gooderham Building. True or false?
 
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1905 - George Gooderham - a great benefactor
1905 - George Gooderham - a great benefactor
William's son, George Gooderham was not only a brilliant financier but a wonderful benefactor to the city of Toronto. He believed in paying his taxes and gifting anonymously. In this excerpt we blow his anonymity...
 
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1907 William George Gooderham Springs to Hoggs Hollow
1907 William George Gooderham Springs to Hoggs Hollow
The story of The Mineral Spirits Bottling plant built by William George Gooderham
Owner of original: Scott Kennedy
 
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1911 Meet Me at the Gooderham Fountain
1911 Meet Me at the Gooderham Fountain
The Canadian National Exhibition started as the Toronto Industrial Exhibition in September 1879...that remained without a central focus until 1911 when the Gooderham Fountain first gushed.
 
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1912 the first Canadian Big Sisters agency formed by Florence Gooderham Huestis
1912 the first Canadian Big Sisters agency formed by Florence Gooderham Huestis
A remarkable woman, born under a cloud, becomes a powerhouse for social change and the betterment of society
Owner of original: Kathy Weekes
 
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1912 The Gooderham Coat of Arms
1912 The Gooderham Coat of Arms
On the ninth of August 1912, the College of Arms in the UK granted the coat of arms to “William George Gooderham of Alverthorpe in Rosedale in the city of Toronto and dominion of Canada”. It seems he applied for it to honour his father, as the coat of arms was granted for the use of George Gooderham, his male descendants and their children.
 
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1915 Sir Albert E. Gooderham was instrumental in creating Connaught Labs
1915 Sir Albert E. Gooderham was instrumental in creating Connaught Labs
In early 1915, Gooderham pledged funds to upgrade the original Antitoxin Laboratory and then acquired a large abandoned farm property north of the city. He proceeded to equip it with new buildings (buildings #3 and #4) that also enabled smallpox vaccine production, and pledged to donate it all to the university.
Owner of original: Sanofi Pasteur Canada employee eBulletin
Date: 22 Apr 2020
 
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1919 George Horace Gooderham entertains Prince Edward at the RCYC
1919 George Horace Gooderham entertains Prince Edward at the RCYC
At the RCYC ball held to honour Prince Edward, His Royal Highness was no where to be found...until he was spotted on Commodore Gooderham's schooner, the Oriole, surrounded by hundreds of well wishers in their canoes.
 
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1922 Sir Albert Gooderham’s Contribution to the Insulin Story
1922 Sir Albert Gooderham’s Contribution to the Insulin Story
Banting, Best, and Macleod each had their own understandings of the contributions leading to the discovery of insulin. Colonel Albert Gooderham, prominent member of the Board of Governors, patron of the Connaught Laboratories, and chairman of the Insulin Committee, sought to sort it out.
Owner of original: http://www.clinchem.org/content/48/12/2270.full#sec-24
 
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1923 William George Gooderham’s Unreadable Signature
1923 William George Gooderham’s Unreadable Signature
Stories during William George Gooderham's days as President of Bank of Toronto and Canada Permanent Mortgage Corporation
 
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1933 Dean Gooderham Acheson '...greatest Secretaries of State of the century”
1933 Dean Gooderham Acheson "...greatest Secretaries of State of the century”
Excerpts from several sources describing Dean Gooderham Acheson's remarkable achievements in service to the Government of the United States.
 
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1934 Sir Albert Edward Gooderham is Knighted
1934 Sir Albert Edward Gooderham is Knighted
Sir Albert E Gooderham turned the G&W distillery into a factory making cordite for the war effort.
 
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1940 A Glimpse of Christmas Past
1940 A Glimpse of Christmas Past
Helen Younder, our Ezekiel administrator, shares this month's featured story and photo to give us a taste of a Gooderham Christmas. Her grandfather, William Ezekiel Gooderham, told this story in 1958 to Doris McPherson, author of A Glimpse of Christmas Past. He and wife May (Mary Jane) are captured in a charming photo while out for a sleigh ride.
 
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1965 Dean Gooderham Acheson RSVPs to the family reunion
1965 Dean Gooderham Acheson RSVPs to the family reunion
Describing how Dean Gooderham Acheson is connected to our family, his early years and his response to our 1965 reunion.