[1] In the summer of 1842, he participated with Bishop John Strachan in the founding meeting of Little Trinity Anglican Church,[2] where he later was a warden for 30 years.

His descendants' significance was not limited to Canada – his great-grandson, Dean Gooderham Acheson, born and raised in Connecticut, would serve as the U.S. Secretary of State.

[4] In 1870, his son Charles Horace Gooderham (1844–1904) built a residence in Meadowvale (now part of Mississauga) – a Georgian Revival manor at 929 Old Derry Road.

[6] Charles Horace Gooderham also built a Queen Anne Revival mansion in Toronto at 592 Sherbourne Street in 1883, which became the Selby Hotel in 1912.

[7] The historic building was moved a short distance on its site in 2015 in order to incorporate it into a new apartment complex called The Selby.