Goderich
Goderich is a town of 7,700 people in Huron County, by the shore of Lake Huron. It is a service centre for the surrounding agricultural communities, and has one of the oldest salt mines in Ontario, dating to 1866. Also a beach community.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Whpq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Whpq, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 7,630 residents
- Description: town in Huron County, Ontario, Canada
- Also known as: “Goderich, ON” and “Goderich, Ontario”
Photo: Mhsheikholeslami, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Huron Historic Gaol and Goderich District Collegiate Institute.
Huron Historic Gaol
Museum
Photo: Mhsheikholeslami, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Huron Historic Gaol was established as the Huron County Gaol for Upper Canada's Huron District. Clearing of the land began in Goderich, Ontario in 1839 and the jail was constructed between 1839 and 1842 using stone from the Maitland River Valley and from Michigan.
Goderich District Collegiate Institute
School
Goderich District Collegiate Institute is the only high school in the town of Goderich, Ontario. It is home to the Goderich Vikings.
Goderich Airport
Aerodrome
Goderich Airport, also known as Goderich Municipal Airport and formerly Sky Harbour Airport, is a registered aerodrome located 1.5 nautical miles north of Goderich, Ontario, Canada.
Goderich
- Categories: lower-tier municipality of Ontario and locality
- Location: Huron County, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.7431° or 43° 44′ 35″ northLongitude
-81.7111° or 81° 42′ 40″ westPopulation
7,630Elevation
222 metres (728 feet)United Nations Location Code
CA GOHOpen location code
86MWP7VQ+6HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1316794064OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Goderich” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غودريتش”
- Asturian: “Goderich”
- Atikamekw: “Goderich”
- Bulgarian: “Годерич”
- Catalan: “Goderich”
- Cebuano: “Goderich”
- Chinese: “戈德里奇”
- Dutch: “Goderich”
- French: “Goderich”
- German: “Goderich”
- Greek: “Γκόντεριτς”
- Italian: “Goderich”
- Japanese: “ゴードリッチ”
- Japanese: “ゴッドリッチ”
- Japanese: “ゴデリッチ”
- Japanese: “ゴドリッチ”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Goderich”
- Persian: “گادریک، انتاریو”
- Persian: “گادریک”
- Polish: “Goderich”
- Portuguese: “Goderich”
- Romanian: “Goderich, Ontario”
- Romanian: “Goderich”
- Russian: “Годерич”
- Serbian: “Goderich”
- Serbian: “Годерич”
- Serbian: “Годрич”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Goderich”
- Spanish: “Goderich (Ontario)”
- Spanish: “Goderich”
- Swedish: “Goderich”
- Turkish: “Goderich”
- Ukrainian: “Годрич (Онтаріо)”
- Ukrainian: “Годрич”
- Urdu: “گوڈرچ، اونٹاریو”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Goderich”. Photo: Whpq, CC BY-SA 3.0.