Gooderham Family
Gooderham is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Albert Gooderham (1861–1935), Canadian distiller and financier * Bill Gooderham (1919–1979), sailor * George Horace Gooderham (1868–1942), Canadian businessman and politician * Hector Gooderham (1909–1977), Scottish Episcopalian priest * Peter Gooderham (born 1954), British diplomat * William Gooderham, Sr. (1790–1881), Canadian distiller, businessman, and banker See also * Gooderham and Worts, Canadian distillery company * Gooderham Building, prominent landmark in Toronto * Gooderham, Ontario, a community in Highlands East, Ontario ** Gooderham/Pencil Lake Water Aerodrome, aerodrome near Gooderham, Ontario {{surname ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Albert Gooderham
Colonel Sir Albert Edward Gooderham, KCMGA.E. GOODERHAM DIES; CREATED K.C.M.G. JAN. 1 in the , April 26, 1935 (June 2, 1861 – April 25, 1935) was a , , [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bill Gooderham
Norman William Gooderham (12 May 1919 – 15 December 1979) was a Canadian sailor. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in the Star class and at the 1952 Summer Olympics in the 6 meter category and finished seventh-eights. Gooderham trained at the Royal Canadian Yacht Club and later served as its president. He came from a family of prominent businessmen and sailors that included George Horace Gooderham, Albert Gooderham and William Gooderham Sr. Besides his ancestors, his sisters Audrey and Ruth, his wife JoAnne, his son Bryan and grandchildren Yolande and Billy Billy may refer to: * Billy (name), a name (and list of people with the name) Animals * Billy (dog), a dog breed * Billy (pigeon), awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945 * Billy (pygmy hippo), a pet of U.S. President Calvin Coolidge * Billy, a youn ..., all competed in sailing. In 1949, during their honeymoon, Gooderham and his wife placed fourth at an international regatta in Bermuda. References 1919 births 197 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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George Horace Gooderham
George Horace Gooderham (April 18, 1868 – December 22, 1942) was a Canadian businessman and politician. From 1908 to 1919, he was a Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing Toronto South and then Toronto Southwest. Life and career Born in Toronto, his father was George Gooderham Sr. (1830–1905), a prominent businessman, and his mother was Harriet Dean. He married Cora Maude Northrop. He worked in the business founded by his grandfather, William Gooderham, which was the Gooderham & Worts distillery. His brother, Albert Gooderham, also worked in the family business. Gooderham was Commodore of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club The Royal Canadian Yacht Club (RCYC) is a private yacht club in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1852, it is one of the world's older and larger yacht clubs. Its summer home is on a trio of islands (RCYC Island, South Island and North Chip ... in Toronto and served on the school board for Toronto, serving as ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hector Gooderham
Hector Bransby Gooderham (11 October 1909 – 30 December 1977) was an eminent Episcopalian priest in the third quarter of the 20th Century. He was born on 11 October 1901 and educated at George Heriot's School, Edinburgh and the City's University. He was ordained in 1924 and began his career with a curacy at St. Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow after which he was appointed Rector of St John's, Selkirk. Subsequently, the incumbent at St Baldred's, North Berwick he was appointed Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh in 1949, a post he was to hold until 1956. His last appointment before retirement was at St Peter's, Cranley Gardens, London and he died on 30 December 1977.''The Very Rev H.B. Gooderham'' The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (fou ... Wednesday, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Peter Gooderham
Peter Olaf Gooderham CMG (born 29 July 1954) is a British diplomat, serving as International Director at the Ministry of Justice. He completed a BA in Politics and Economics at Newcastle University in 1975. After a brief period of working as a management trainee, Gooderham spent the period 1976–78 completing a PhD in Modern History at Bristol University. From 2004 to 2007 he was the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Director of the Middle East and North Africa Directorate, based in London. In that role he provided information to the House of Commons Select Committee on International Development on the work of the Quartet on the Middle East and Hamas. Gooderham was the United Kingdom's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other international organisations at Geneva 2008–12. He attracted news attention for walking out, with delegates from at least 30 countries, in protest at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech during the 2009 Durban Review Confer ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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William Gooderham, Sr
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gooderham And Worts
Gooderham and Worts, also known as Gooderham & Worts Limited, was a Canadian distiller of alcoholic beverages. It was once one of the largest distillers in Canada. The company was merged in 1926 with Hiram Walker & Sons Ltd., and the merged firm was eventually sold to Allied Lyons in 1987. The company's distillery facility on the Toronto waterfront was closed in the 1990s. The buildings, dating to the 1860s, were preserved and repurposed as an arts and entertainment district that is called the Distillery District. In 1998, the Gooderham and Worts Distillery was named one of the National Historic Sites of Canada. Early history The business was founded by James Worts and his brother-in-law, William Gooderham. Worts had owned a mill in Diss, England, then moved to Toronto in 1831 and established himself in the same line of work. He built a prominent windmill on the Toronto waterfront, near the mouth of the Don River. The next year, Gooderham joined him in Toronto and in the b ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gooderham Building
The Gooderham Building, also known as the Flatiron Building, is an historic office building at 49 Wellington Street East in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located on the eastern edge of the city's Financial District (east of Yonge Street) in the St. Lawrence neighbourhood, wedged between Front Street and Wellington Street in Downtown Toronto, where they join up to form a triangular intersection. Completed in 1892, the red-brick edifice was an early example of a prominent flatiron building. The Gooderham Building is the focal point of one of Toronto's most iconic vistas: looking west down Front Street towards the building's prominent rounded corner, framed on the sides by the heritage commercial blocks along Front Street, and with the skyscrapers of the Financial District towering in the background. The CN Tower is also visible from certain angles behind Brookfield Place. This vista frequently appears in imagery of the city. History The previous building on the site was shorte ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Highlands East, Ontario
Highlands East is a township municipality located in Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada. History The township was incorporated in 2001 through the amalgamation of the former townships of Bancroft, Cardiff, Glamorgan, and Monmouth. Communities Cardiff is a former mining community; Bicroft and Dyno Mines opened in 1956 and closed several years later. The chief mineral being mined in Cardiff was uranium. Cardiff is located on Highway 118 between the towns of Bancroft and Haliburton. The Cardiff Elementary School is a small school. The community also has a Royal Canadian Legion hall, a Catholic and United church, an outdoor pool, which is popular during the summer, a post office, a municipal office, a library, and a skating rink that doubles as an outdoor basketball and floor hockey court. The entrance to the townsite, off of Highway 118, is marked by a large metal sculpture of a dragonfly. Gooderham is bordered on the south end of the municipality in proximity to the Irondale ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |