Salt is front and centre at this weekend’s festival in Goderich [Video]

Goderich markets itself as Canada’s Prettiest Town, but this weekend they are putting their biggest industry front and centre – salt.

“Seems strange, but this is quite literally our roots. This is what is beneath us,” said Goderich’s Tourism Events Co-ordinator, Lisa Hood.

Goderich is home to the World’s Largest Salt Mine, and has sent 150 million tonnes of salt all over the world. The “white gold” was discovered by accident in 1866, as Samuel Platt and Peter McEwen were drilling for oil, and found one of the world’s largest salt deposits instead.

It would take until 1959 before a functioning mine was built to harvest the salt, which stretches under and along Lake Huron’s shores for 7 square kilometres. It’s such a huge part of Goderich that last year, the first ever Goderich Salted Festival was founded.

Goderich is home to the World’s Largest Salt Mine (Source: Town of …