William Ezekiel Gooderham

William Ezekiel Gooderham

Male 1865 - 1963  (98 years)

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  • Name William Ezekiel Gooderham 
    Birth 21 Jan 1865  Wexford, York, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Mar 1963  Meadowvale, Peel, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I77  Gooderham -Worts | KEG family and descendants, CLS family and descendants, Ezekiel Gooderham and descendants, MLG family and descendants, HES Family and Descendants
    Last Modified 30 Sep 2015 

    Father George Gooderham,   b. 18 Nov 1824, Scole, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Oct 1910, Meadowvale, Peel, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years) 
    Mother Catherine Macdonald,   b. Abt 1831, Argyllshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1905, Mississauga, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Marriage c.1851 
    Photos
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham instructing modern farming techniques.
    John Hamilton Gooderham instructing modern farming techniques.
    DOMINION OF CANADA ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INDIAN AFFAIRS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30th JUNE 1893.

    The agent speaks most highly of the herder's diligence and untiring energy in the performance of his duties under very unfavourable and trying conditions.

    I inspected all the cattle: with a few exceptions they all looked well, the two thorough-bred Galloway bulls, just purchased, have arrived; they are very fine animals, and they will,'no doubt, prove a good addition to the herd.

    I inspected the large now stables and corrals built last summer for the accommodation of this herd. They are well constructed and should afford every necessary protection against an inclement winter. These stables are adjacent to and near the river, and are very conveniently situated for watering the stock.

    Piapot Band No. 75 - J.H. Gooderham, Farmer, Farm 9.

    Mr. Gooderham, was sent to take charge of this band from Touchwood Agency. He is experienced in dealing with Indians, having been in the service of this department, in the same capacity, since 1879; he speaks the Cree language fluently. He took charge here in October, 1892.

    At the time of my inspection, the Indians had already left their houses, in which they reside during the winter, and were all living in tents. There was but one case of sickness in the whole camp, a returned Industrial School child, sick with consumption.

    These people were well clothed and appeared cheerful. They had their cattle with them at the camp, and I was able to make an enumeration of them without any difficulty, and also to observe their condition. While some of them looked as if they had passed through a hard winter, they were improving in condition, and some were looking very well indeed.

    I audited the books of this farm, balancing the same. They were kept with regularity, and they checked with those of the agency.

    I inspected the goods in use, and made a list of those worn out.

    I made an inventory of the tools and implements in the hands of the Indians. The list of goods "under Government controls" represents but a small portion of those they possess: since my last inspection, they have bought eleven bob-sleighs at twenty-six dollars to thirty dollars each, seventeen wagons, seven mowers and six horse-rakes; these they have paid for by selling hay and grain, they sell their hay in Regina, a distance of thirty-five miles. Last year the price there was five dollars and fifty cents a ton. They also sold over one hundred tons to the Indian Department at two dollars a ton; this was for the agency herd.

    At the time of my inspection, seeding was finished and they had renewed and re-established their fences in a substantial manner, using new rails when required; wheat was showing above the ground. About twenty-seven Indians are interested in the crops, and these farm in sixteen communities. The crops consist of ninety-three acres wheat, six acres turnips, two acres carrots, five acres potatoes, total one hundred and six acres; it is nearly all on land the second crop from breaking. Four houses and as many stables have been built within the past year, and the Indians work steadily during the winter hauling hay to Regina, and to the herd stables; although only twenty-seven Indians are interested as owners of crops, fifty-three are classed as working Indians of the two hundred and five in the band.
    Crop, 1892.

    In 1892 this band had in crop two hundred acres wheat, thirteen acres oats, eight acres potatoes, five acres turnips. It was a most disastrous year for them, as nearly the whole of the crop was destroyed by a hail storm: all that was harvested from this large area of crops, was fifty-six bushels wheat, thirty-four bushels oats, six hundred bushels turnips. Sixteen bushels of the wheat were used for seed, and the remainder put to stock; the oats were put to stock, and the Indians used the turnips.

    The same year, the farmer had in crop half an acre potatoes. It was a wonder that in the face of such ill-luck the Indians were induced to farm this year as largely as they have done.

    http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/indianaffairs/001074-119.01-e.php?page_id_nbr=8979&PHPSESSID=p27c1bmpa77sg18s1cpse6b0p0
    George Gooderham Sr with Catherine MacDonald and family.
    George Gooderham Sr with Catherine MacDonald and family.
    L to R: William Ezekiel, Jessie Helen, Archibald Roderick, Katherine, George Sr. and Harriet Jane (Jennie) which suggests that either John Hamilton or more likely Elizabeth (Libbie) may have taken the picture. (John would likely have been out west...)
    Jessie Helen Gooderham
    Jessie Helen Gooderham
    William Ezekiel Gooderham
    William Ezekiel Gooderham
    Katherine MacDonald
    Katherine MacDonald
    Croped from an image with her sister(?) Elizabeth and marked as Grandma Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    John Hamilton Gooderham
    Prepared for his trip west in 1879. Image annotated by GHG on back.
    Katharine Gooderham nee MacDonald Wife of George Gooderham
    Katharine Gooderham nee MacDonald Wife of George Gooderham
    Family ID F18  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Jane Watt,   b. 11 Jun 1873, Toronto, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. c. Feb 1962 (Age 88 years) 
    Marriage 26 Jun 1907  Streetsville, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Mary Louise Gooderham,   b. 5 May 1912, Toronto, ON, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Dec 2002, Guelph, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years)  [Father: Birth]  [Mother: Birth]
    +2. Private: (K.E.G.)
    Family ID F29  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Oct 2013 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 21 Jan 1865 - Wexford, York, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 26 Jun 1907 - Streetsville, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Mar 1963 - Meadowvale, Peel, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    William Ezekiel Gooderham
    William Ezekiel Gooderham
    Youngest son of George & Catherine Gooderham. He was born 33 years after his Grandfather and Grandmother (Ezekiel and Harriet) emigrated to York County (Toronto)Canada. He was 4 years old when the family moved to the Village of Meadowvale where his father managed the Gooderham & Worts family farm.
    William Ezekiel Gooderham
    William Ezekiel Gooderham
    William Ezekiel Gooderham and May out for a Sleigh Ride 1940
    William Ezekiel Gooderham and May out for a Sleigh Ride 1940
    Mr. Gooderham's family always had roast goose for Christmas dinner and he remembers the huge plum pudding his mother (Catherine) made - lots of suet and big raisins boiled in a cloth in a big iron pot.

    Mr. Gooderham and his brother hung their stockings behind the wood burning stove in the dining-room on Christmas Eve. They got up before dawn and took the filled stockings upstairs and ate the contents in bed in the dark - nuts, raisins, candy and an orange. One Christmas, they got fur caps for presents and Mr. Gooderham's cap fell off the hook and the new puppy chewed a hole in it.

    After Christmas dinner everyone went skating on the pond. There was always a shinny match between Churchville and Meadowvale. The boys skated down the river from Churchville. They made the shinny sticks out of little maple trees, the root of the saplings shaped the end of the stick. At night, they set fires to big pine stumps on the pond. Skates were wooden and were fastened to the boots with a screw in the heel and with straps.

    During Christmas week, cousins used to drive down from Terra Cotta in a horse drawn sleigh. New Year's Eve, the Meadowvale Band went around the village playing the old Year out and the new Year in.

    Interview with Mr. W. Gooderham, 1958. From "A Glimpse of Christmas Past: by Doris McPherson


    William Ezekiel and family
    William Ezekiel and family
    This picture was taken at their home in Meadowvale, 1958
    Celebrating Williams 90th birthday, from left Kay, Mary 'Mae', William and Louise.
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    Family Stories
    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.