Menesetung

Menesetung, the “laughing waters”, is an Anishinaabe name for the river that enters Lake Huron at Goderich. Its branches run through the wooded country east of the lake, where Indigenous peoples travelled, hunted, fished and cultivated. In 1827 the Canada Company's John Galt and his surveyors came to the river mouth to establish Goderich; Chippewa families were encamped on the river flats. Galt had the river renamed for Lieutenant-Governor Peregrine Maitland and opened a road through the forest towards Guelph.