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.
Gooderham and Worts
Hiram Walker was an American entrepreneur and founder of the Hiram Walker and Sons Ltd. distillery in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Walker was born in East Douglas, Massachusetts, and moved to Detroit in 1838. He purchased land across the Detroit River, just east of what is Windsor, Ontario, and established a distillery in 1858 in what would become Walkerville, Ontario. Walker began selling his whisky as Hiram Walker's Club Whisky, in containers that were "clearly marked" and he used a process to make his whisky that was vastly different from all other distillers.
Hiram Walker, from a painting that hangs in Willistead Manor, Windsor, Ontario
Hiram Walker, from a picture located in the archives of Hiram Walker and Sons
Canadian Club whisky, originally made by Hiram Walker & Sons, today a property of Beam Suntory
Distillery buildings in Walkerville (now part of Windsor, Ontario) c. 1910