Editing Goderich, Ontario (section)

==Infrastructure==
===Ports===
[[File:GoderichPortHarbour.JPG|thumb|Silos at Goderich Harbour]]

[[Goderich Airport]] (known unofficially as ''Sky Harbour Airport'')<ref name="waymark">{{cite web | url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2CG7 | access-date=2008-05-05 | title=The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan | publisher=Waymarking.com }}</ref> is a community airport with three runways: two are paved, with [[Runway|runway lighting]], and one is grass.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.navcanada.ca/NavCanada.asp?Language=en&Content=ContentDefinitionFiles/default.xml | access-date=2008-05-05 | title=entry on Nav Canada site | publisher=Nav Canada | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411042946/http://www.navcanada.ca/NavCanada.asp?Language=en&Content=ContentDefinitionFiles%2Fdefault.xml | archive-date=2008-04-11 }}</ref> It is located directly north of the town, and is accessible via the [[Highway 21 (Ontario)|Bluewater Highway]] north of the community. During WWII, The airport was the site of an Elementary [[Central Flying School|Flying Training School]] as part of the [[British Commonwealth Air Training Plan]].<ref name="waymark" />  In addition to flight services, several industries are located in the immediate area of the airport to provide the full range of services that aviation requires, including interior and exterior re-finishing, and mechanical repairs.

Goderich Harbour is owned by the town, but is operated under contract by Goderich Port Management Corporation.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.goderich.ca/statistics.html | access-date=2008-05-05 | title=Statistics about Goderich | publisher=Town of Goderich site | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080430134318/http://www.goderich.ca/statistics.html | archive-date=2008-04-30 }}</ref> It is an industrial harbour, used primarily to load salt from the Sifto salt mines onto lake and ocean freighters.

Snug Harbour is a marina located within the industrial harbour basin; Maitland Valley Marina is also located near Goderich.

===Railways===
[[File:GoderichCPRStation.jpg|thumb|CPR station]]

The [[Goderich-Exeter Railway]] currently operates freight service to Goderich.
The line was built by the [[Buffalo and Lake Huron Railway]] in 1859.<ref name=railbuf>
{{cite web
 |url         = http://home.primus.ca/~robkath/railbuf.htm
 |title       = The B&LHR
 |access-date  = 2007-04-24
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070517150302/http://home.primus.ca/~robkath/railbuf.htm
 |archive-date = 2007-05-17
}}</ref> The railway was soon taken over by the [[Grand Trunk Railway]], later [[Canadian National Railway|CN]]. In 1992, the line was sold to the GEXR.

The [[Canadian Pacific Railway]] built its own line, the [[ Guelph and Goderich Railway]], into Goderich in 1907.<ref name=stops>
{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.stopsalonglakehuron.com/menesetung.htm
 |title       = Stops along Lake Huron
 |access-date  = 2007-04-24
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20061219163242/http://www.stopsalonglakehuron.com/menesetung.htm
 |archive-date = 2006-12-19
}}</ref> Passenger service ran until the 1960s. The entire line was abandoned in 1989.<ref name=gart>Informational plaque along the Goderich to Auburn Rail Trail.</ref>  The trestle crossing over the Maitland River was converted through public fund-raising into a public walkway, offering views of the harbour, Maitland Valley golf course and the river valley itself.  The [[Ontario West Shore Railway]] started to build a railway from Goderich to [[Kincardine, Ontario|Kincardine]] in 1909, but it was never completely opened.<ref name=jan4>The Signal (Goderich), January 4, 1912.</ref>