This site powered by The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding v. 12.3, written by Darrin Lythgoe © 2001-2020. FEATURED STORIES . Of all the hundreds of times I went past it I didn't stop to look closer. Tragedy would however soon strike both the family and the business, when Elizabeth Worts died in child birth. Do you now what became of the family? Then I remembered the distillery down in the Toronto port lands. Could these have been the same Gooderhams? It is also known as the Flatiron Building after the more famous one in New York City. David Sproull (author) from Toronto on November 30, 2012: @Lwilkes: Very cool. A Mill was established near the mouth of the Don River and along with William Gooderham's investment of £3,000 the partnership of Worts and Gooderham. I am heartened that the site is cared for although wonder what might be invloved in the restoration of some of the markers. Hope that means I got things right! Jump ahead from there some 1,200 years and we find not where this story begins, but rather where this article begins. Their factory is remarkably well preserved in The Distillery District but they also left their mansions and some major projects, including the King Edward Hotel built in 1903. My great grandmother is Victoria Gooderham. EDWARD DOUGLAS GOODERHAM October 14, 1934 - December 8, 2018 It is with profound love and sadness that we announce the passing of Edward Gooderham. My mother's maiden name was Gooderham. The house features a domed witch-hat tower, similar to the one on the Gooderham building. “Mill Street” (now Trinity Street) was a dirt road that wound past the windmill and off to the Peninsula where Michael O’Conner opened his new hotel, Retreat on the Peninsula, in the fall of 1833, and the 1808 Gibraltar Point Lighthouse flashed its warnings to ships approaching the growing town. Before the Toronto Island became an island during the great storm of April 13, 1858, it was physically linked to Gooderham & Worts. The oldest surviving architecture that can be attributed to the Gooderham Family is the church at 245 King Street East. I live in Toronto and found your article fascinating. I inspect the stones. Like us at http://www.facebook.com/hikingthegta, More Gooderham in Meadowvale Mississauga I had a plan of moving to Toronto after I have finished university (without any prior knowledge of my familys link to Toronto) and this has been the biggest sign that I have to go! ( Log Out /  Although the New York Flatiron building is more famous, Toronto’s Gooderham Building (1892) predates it by a decade, and was the second of its kind on this site. Situated just a little north of the Gooderham and Worts distillery the church was founded because many of the factory workers and others in the community couldn’t afford to pay pew fees to attend Bishop Strachan’s Anglican Church. Three generations of the Gooderham Family made their mark on Toronto through the distillery of Gooderham and Worts. It is here that he resided until his passing in 1905. After the physical link was severed, ships could enter Toronto harbour through an Eastern Gap, as well as the original, more distant Western Gap. Many of Gooderham & Worts’ vessels undoubtedly saved time as a result, delivering raw materials like coal and corn to the growing distillery and distributing Gooderham & Worts products to far-flung customers. Fancy brickwork on the chimney is complimented by the carvings around the tower base. Ezekiel served as Deacon of the church to which the cemetery was once attached to. ( Log Out /  After much research and digging and exchanging of emails I found out that this tiny slightly disheveled cemetery that got me started on my quest was cared for by the City's park and recreation forestry department.