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William Babb was a Canadian captain of the Goderich, Ontario Lifeboat Station's Life-Saving Brigade and local hotel proprietor. He was awarded a Gold Lifesaving Medal for the 1885 rescue of the American schooner A.C. Maxwell .
The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) maintains a number of major bases and operating stations on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, as well as in the St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes and major navigable inland waterways such as Lake of the Woods, Lake Winnipeg, and Great Slave Lake/Mackenzie River.
Goderich features three public-use beaches which can be reached by car following signage in town to the beach hill, also known as West Street. After parking, beach users can also walk along a wooden boardwalk over a mile in length (in late 2019, the boardwalk was damaged by strong waves, and it has been under repairs through 2020 [46]).
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]
Highway 8 is a 159.7-kilometre (99.2 mi) route that connects the shores of Lake Huron at Goderich with the head of Lake Ontario in Hamilton. Portions of the highway through Goderich, Clinton, Seaforth, Mitchell and Stratford are locally-maintained under a Connecting Link Agreement with the provincial government. [1] [2]
The Goderich–Exeter Railway was created in 1992 [1] by its owner, RailTex (subsequently purchased by RailAmerica in 2000, and Genesee & Wyoming in late 2012), to operate over Canadian National Railway's Goderich Subdivision, 46 miles (74 km) of track between Stratford and Goderich, Ontario; and its Exeter Subdivision, 24 miles (39 km) of track between Centralia, Ontario and Clinton Jct. that ...
The line was laid with 80-pound-per-yard (40 kg/m) rail and reached Goderich in 1907. There was also a 16-mile (26 km) branch line from Linwood to Listowel. Envisioned branches to Stratford and St. Marys were never built. The principal stations were located in Guelph, Elmira, Linwood, Milverton, Monkton, Walton, Blyth and Goderich. [3]
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