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Ontariothe Salt of the Earth GODERICH, ONTARIO THE SALT OF THE EARTH GODERICH, ONTARIO GODERICH, THE SALT OF THE EARTH ONTARIO nown as “The Prettiest Town in Canada,” Goderich, Ontario, is Klocated on the eastern shore of Lake Huron at the mouth of the Maitland River. It was founded as a port town by William “Tiger” Dunlop, a Canadian army officer, surgeon, author, and politician, in 1827, and named after Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, who was Britain’s Prime Minister at the time. The town was officially incorporated in 1850. Today, Goderich is the largest port on the east side of the Lake, servicing approximately 250 vessels a year that mostly carry rock salt from the Sifto Salt Mine, the largest operating salt mine in the world, to destinations west in Michigan, south in Ohio, and north to parts of Ontario. Salt was first dis- covered in Goderich in 1866 by Sam Platt, the owner of a flour mill, who originally had set out to discover oil. Platt’s find, the first recorded salt bed in North America, set off a regional salt GODERICH, ONTARIO province about $16,000 a year, plus royalties, infilling program which will be completed in for a mineral lease that expires in 2022. Parent 2018,” McCabe adds. “That will create about company, Compass Minerals, a public firm based four or five acres of new land and we hope to in Kansas, USA, predicts another 120 years of build on that in the future. There are no tax dol- salt mining in Goderich. lars in that, either; it’s user fees from Compass In 1999, the Town bought the port from the Minerals and Parrish & Heimbecker (a Canadian federal government under a divestiture pro- grain company) and some other users in the gram, and began a $29 million infrastructure port. That’s the biggest infrastructure program project to rebuild its break walls, river wall, and over the last number of years and going on for piers. That project was completed in 2015 and the next two or three years.” according to Larry McCabe, Goderich’s Chief Ad- Chip Wilson is Goderich’s Director of Opera- ministrative Officer, was accomplished without tions. He outlines some other recent and on- the use of tax dollars. “The user fees were low- going infrastructure projects in town: “We just ered during this process once the town bought opened up another phase of our industrial land, the port, but there were still sufficient dockage which now has created approximately 26 more and wharfage fees, each year, to produce a $29 acres,” he reports. “The town put in our own million infrastructure program.” stormwater management because we’ve always “We are now proceeding with a $16 million found that if you don’t get those plans devel- rush. By late 1867, twelve independent salt wells dotted the Mait- AT A GLANCE land River Valley across Goderich Harbor and Lake Huron. In 1959, Sifto Canada constructed its first mine shaft, some 1,800 GODERICH, feet beneath the surface of the earth, with tunnels extending over ONTARIO four miles under Lake Huron. A second shaft became operational WHAT: A town of 8,000 in 1968 and a third shaft was added in 1983. Each year, some 600 workers extract approximately 7.5 million metric tons of salt from WHERE: On the eastern shore of Lake Huron, at the mine, used mainly as deicing salt which is bagged and sold the mouth of the Maitland to help make North America’s winter roads safer. It is also sold in River bulk to manufacturers that make plastics, detergents, and other WEBSITE: www.goderich.ca products. The Compass plant also uses mechanical evaporation to produce high-purity salt products, for use in table salt, animal licks, water softeners, and swimming pools. The company pays the GODERICH, ONTARIO turned its operation over to the Sarnia-Lambton YMCA,” he says. “At the same time, we doubled the size of our Carnegie Library for $2 million, and on the heels of that we built a $5 million medical clinic. We have all the doctors in town under leases – some 12 or 13 doc- tors and more that we’re working on. And we’re getting ready now to move into a $1.7 million addition to that facility.” There has also been considerable rebuilding of prop- erties that were leveled or damaged by the F3 tornado that ripped through Goderich on August 21, 2011. “It did between $200 and $250 million worth of dam- age,” McCabe says, “both in the residential area and the commercial area. So we’ve gone through a build-up of properties that were destroyed.” oped, you’re missing out on a potential opportunity. De- GOderich velopers coming in don’t want to see just open fields; Water, energy and they want to see something that has infrastructure.” environmental services Another project, just underway, is the potential of ap- for sustainability and proximately 300 new homes that can be built on 200 human progress acres of land that was recently boundary-adjusted into the town. “The developer, Fusion Homes, is currently going through the design phases with our engineer and their engineer to get all the infrastructure ready, and they want to proceed in the near future,” says Wilson. “Also, the town just went through a waterfront master plan and over the next two to three years, we’re Convenient post-secondary going to be implementing some of the ideas that came programming focused on careers and life in the out of public workshops, for re-doing our waterfront. community. So those are a couple of major projects.” n Full-time Programs n Part-time Studies Meanwhile, McCabe adds that the town has been n General Interest Courses busy with other projects, as well. “We built a $19 mil- twitter: @veolia_na www.veolianorthamerica.com lion recreation facility and opened it in 2004, and we fanshawec.ca/GOderich Business View Magazine-Goderich 1/4 page ad color-2017-3.6x4.9.indd 2 1/26/17 8:34 PM GODERICH, ONTARIO Another exciting project in Goderich is being developed by a company called NRStor in association with Compass Min- erals, owner of the Sifto Salt Mine, that will incorporate Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology. In a CAES plant, ambient air is compressed and stored under pressure in an underground cavern. When electricity is required, the pressurized air is heated and expanded in an expansion turbine that drives a generator for power production. NRStor is working with technology suppliers that have invented a CAES technology that can capture the heat that is generated when the air is initially compressed, thus eliminating the need for any addition- al fuel to heat it on the back end. This process allows for a highly efficient system that requires no natural gas and produces zero carbon emissions. “They’ve entered into an agreement to store compressed air in the salt cairns, which are now empty,” McCabe explains. “They’ve been identified as some of the best cairns in the world to store compressed air. You bring the compressed air out and you create electricity. That project is just in its pilot phase; they’ve been working on it for two years through the Independent Electricity System Operator (a Crown corporation responsible for operating the electricity market and directing the operation of the bulk electrical system in the province of Ontario) and they are moving forward with that very exciting project.” GODERICH, ONTARIO to feel that this a good place to raise a family. So, it’s really a complete community that we’ve got here; a great community to live and work.” McCabe agrees: “It’s a well-balanced municipality from the position of economics and from tourism,” he states. “We’re ideally located, two and a half hours west of Toronto; two and PREFERRED a half hours north of Detroit; and an hour and half from Port VENDORS Huron. We’re far enough from some of the major centers that we’re a regional shopping area. We have all the major chains n Veolia North America www.veolianorthamerica.com and a strong downtown core. The core area is a circle with a park in the center. Businesses front the circle and go down the n Fanshawe College eight radiating streets to form a square. So it’s unique; there www.fanshawec.ca are only two or three in North America. Planners view the design of our core area and the layout as one of the best from a planning point of view. Goderich is a unique, historic munic- ipality with considerable charm and some of the best sunsets in the world.” And it’s also “The Prettiest Town in Canada.” While the port and port area businesses are “We also have a very strong healthcare sector the town’s largest economic drivers, James Cox, as well,” he adds. “We have a full-service hospi- the town’s Economic Development Director and tal in the community and a number of associ- Tourism Coordinator, insists that Goderich ac- ated assets. Our healthcare presence has been tually has a fairly diverse economy. “We have a important for our sustainability as a community, robust, small-scale manufacturing sector and a especially when we want to attract residents number of small-scale employers in our indus- to town. One of the biggest challengers for our trial area,” he says. “We also have a very strong employers, like the salt mine, is finding skilled tourist economy, here. Being on the Lake and labor. So they need to attract people from other having a unique sense of place – the waterfront, regions.
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