John Goldie
Inducted In
1990
When his parents came from Ayrshire, Scotland to settle on a farm at Greenfield, near Ayr, in 1844, Goldie had interests other than those of farming, and his name eventually became part of an internationally known manufacturing firm, Goldie-McCulloch Ltd.
A millwright, he worked in the Dumfries Foundry at Galt, which he and Hugh McCulloch bought in 1859. The firm of Goldie and McCulloch which started with twenty-two employees, grew rapidly and eventually did business in many countries.
He was vice-president of the Hospital Trust for several years and he and McCulloch presented the Trust with enough money to buy the site on which the first hospital in the city was erected.
A member of the Astronomical Society of Ontario, Goldie maintained an excellent observatory fitted with the latest scientific equipment.