Born: 1815, Died 1912
Married: Catherine Stauffer, Agnes Hosea
When John Good and family came to Canada in 1815, his son Joel was 2 years of age. Joel received a fair education for his time, having attended the early Waterloo log school. He inherited part of the large home farm. But farming was not his main interest. He became a land surveyor. In those early days of growth and settlement in Waterloo, Joel did much surveying of new roads, streets and building lots. One of his interesting jobs was the surveying of burial lots in the newly established Mount Hope Cemetery in 1866. Another was laying out of a quarter mile bicycle track in the new West side park (later Waterloo Park) when it was developed after 1895. He was in his 97th year when he died in 1912. His obituary indicated that he was ranked with the first of Provincial land surveyors.
Sources:
Ezra E. Eby, Biographical History.
Obituary, Waterloo Chronicle, January 6, 1912
Margaret J Zavaras, Waterloo Park, Waterloo Historical Society, Volume 78, 1990.
Waterloo Mount Hope Cemetery Records.
Joel Good Biography
Description
- Creator
- Little, Ellis, Author
- Media Type
- Text
- Item Type
- Articles
- Description
- This is a handwritten biography of Joel Good from the Ellis Little Papers. This biography has been transcribed exactly as written. Ellis Little was a local historian, who was the principal of Elizabeth Ziegler Public School.On his retirement, he invested much of his time in researching and writing about Waterloo's history. The Ellis Little Papers consist of extensive notes, papers and historical works.
- Notes
- To see the original document please visit the Ellis Little Local History Room at the Main Branch of the Waterloo Public Library
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Good, John ; Stauffer, Catherine ; Hosea, Agnes
- Local identifier
- ELP 51.69
- Collection
- Ellis Little Papers: Men and Women of Our Past
- Language of Item
- English
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Location of Original
- Ellis Little Papers
- Contact
- Waterloo Public LibraryEmail:askus@wpl.ca
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