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Major highways include the 9 and 21.
The distance from Port Elgin to Parliament Hill is 531 km. This would be a journey of almost seven hours by car.
The riding is accessible by highways 21, 25, 4, 14, 87, 9, 83, 81, 5 and 20
The riding lies on the eastern shore of Lake Huron and has many rivers, including the Saugeen, Bayfield, Maitland, Middle Maitland, and Little Maitland.
The North Saugeen River in Bruce County flows by mostly agricultural land and forests and is home to a variety of rare species including the most critically endangered of all insects — Hungerford’s Crawling Beetle.
Goderich’s salt mining industry is one of Ontario’s oldest. In 1866, petroleum exploration crews found a massive ancient salt deposit 300 metres below ground level.
The riding’s median age is 45.6.
About 7% of the population are immigrants, with the largest groups coming from the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, the United States, and Germany. After English, the most common non-official languages are German, Dutch, and French.
Less than 2% of the population identifies as Indigenous, Métis, or Inuit.
Pumpkinfest is a popular local event each October, with more than 60,000 attendees.
The Huron County Museum, located in Goderich, has exhibits showcasing the region’s early settlement and development, the Victorian era, local military contributions, and more.
The presence of Lake Huron means this riding has many beaches and places of interest. MacGregor Point Provincial Park and Point Farms Provincial Park are both on the lakeshore.
An F3 tornado hit Goderich on August 21, 2011. The tornado caused major damage to the town’s main square.
Hockey player and Order of Canada member Paul Henderson, and supermodel Jessica Stam, are from Kincardine.
The Point Clark lighthouse is one of six “Imperial Towers” built primarily of stone in the 1850s on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. The Point Clark lighthouse was officially recognized as a National Historic Site in 1996.
Bruce Nuclear Power Development, operated by Bruce Power, dominates the local economy of the area. There is also a thriving tourist industry.
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting; health care and social assistance; and retail trade are the riding’s largest industries. About 11% of the workforce is in agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting.
Almost 49% of the workforce has post-secondary education.
Ripley is home to the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens, a non-profit public garden focused on rare, endangered, heirloom, and ethnocultural food plants. It is the first of its kind in Canada.
The Greenock Swamp Wetland Complex is Southern Ontario’s single largest forested wetland at approximately 8,094 hectares. The swamp is important to the environment as it regulates the surrounding area’s water levels during periods of droughts and heavy rainfall. The Saugeen Conservation Authority is developing a trail system in the swamp.
Huron—Bruce includes Walkerton, where seven people died and thousands fell ill during a 2000 E. coli outbreak in the water supply.
The riding is the home of Steven Truscott, a boy falsely convicted for the murder of Lynne Harper and sentenced to be executed. Truscott was acquitted in 2007, ending a nearly 50-year legal battle and imprisonment.
