James Worts was one of the co-founders of the Gooderham and Worts

Gooderham and Worts

Gooderham and Worts was a Canadian company that was once the largest distiller of alcoholic beverages in Canada. Its former manufacturing facilities on the Toronto Waterfront are today the well known Distillery District....

 partnership which, after his death, evolved from a simple mill into a prosperous distilling company, one which would eventually become the largest in the world.

Having first constructed a flour mill in his hometown of Suffolk

Suffolk

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, England

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 he eventually moved to York

York, Upper Canada

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, Upper Canada

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 with his son in 1831. Once there, he set up another windmill which was completed in 1832.

In 1834, several weeks after his wife died during childbirth, James Worts committed suicide by drowning himself in a well on his own company's property.