Sifto Canada is a salt mining and marketing company based in Canada, with its primary products being table salt, fine evaporated salt, water conditioning salt, agricultural salt, coarse salt, rock salt, and bulk salt. Sifto Canada is wholly owned by Compass Minerals

Compass Minerals

Compass Minerals is a leading producer of minerals, including salt, sulfate of potash specialty fertilizer, and magnesium chloride. Based in the Kansas City metropolitan area, the company provides bulk treated and untreated highway deicing salt to customers in North America and the United Kingdom...

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Sifto was founded by Sam Platt who was prospecting for oil in 1866, and instead of oil encountered rock salt in Goderich Harbour

Goderich, Ontario

Goderich is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario and is the county seat of Huron County. The town was founded by William "Tiger" Dunlop in 1827. First laid out in 1828, the town is named after Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, who was British prime minister at the time. The town...

 on Lake Huron

Lake Huron

Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America. Hydrologically, it comprises the larger portion of Lake Michigan-Huron. It is bounded on the east by the Canadian province of Ontario and on the west by the state of Michigan in the United States...

. That developed into the largest salt mine in Canada and remains a key source of salt for the company.

Facilities

In addition to distribution facilities across the country Sifto Canada operates the following production facilities:

• Rock Salt Mine in Goderich, Ontario
  Goderich, Ontario
  Goderich is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario and is the county seat of Huron County. The town was founded by William "Tiger" Dunlop in 1827. First laid out in 1828, the town is named after Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, who was British prime minister at the time. The town...
  
  
• Mechanical Evaporation Plant in Unity, Saskatchewan
  Unity, Saskatchewan
  -Area statistics:*Lat 52°26′ N*Long 109°10′00″ W*Dominion Land Survey Section 18, Township 40, Range 22, West of the 3rd Meridian*Time zone UTC−6-Location:-See also:*List of towns in Saskatchewan...
  
   (built in 1949 with a staff of 60)
• Mechanical Evaporation Plant in Goderich, Ontario
  Goderich, Ontario
  Goderich is a town in the Canadian province of Ontario and is the county seat of Huron County. The town was founded by William "Tiger" Dunlop in 1827. First laid out in 1828, the town is named after Frederick John Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich, who was British prime minister at the time. The town...
  
  
• Mechanical Evaporation Plant in Amherst, Nova Scotia
  Amherst, Nova Scotia
  Amherst is a Canadian town in northwestern Cumberland County, Nova Scotia.Located at the northeast end of the Cumberland Basin, an arm of the Bay of Fundy, Amherst is strategically situated on the eastern boundary of the Tantramar Marshes 3 kilometres east of the interprovincial border with New...
  
  
• Big Quill Resources operations on the shore of Big Quill Lake, SK (sulphate of potash facility).

Annual production from the Goderich salt mine is 7,250,000 tons per year of salt while the Evaporation plants in Goderich, Unity, and Amherst produce a total of more than 470,000 tons.
Annual production form the Big Quill Lake facility in Wynyard, Saskatchewan

Wynyard, Saskatchewan

-Climate:-Sites of interest:Frank Cameron Museum provides local historical artifacts as well as tourism information and is located in Wynyard. Wynyard Regional Park is the local camping site and is 2 km or 1 mi from Wynyard. Wynyard is located just to the south of Big Quill Lake which is the...

 is 40,000 tons of sulphate of potash.

See also

• Canadian Salt Company
  Canadian Salt Company
  Founded in 1893, in Windsor, Ontario, with three employees of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and was originally named The Windsor Salt Company. Within a few years, the operation was sold and became The Canadian Salt Company, Limited...
  
   - maker of Windsor Salt and Canadian rival and owned by Morton Salt
  Morton Salt
  Morton Salt is a United States company producing salt for food, water conditioning, industrial, agricultural, and road/highway use. Based in Chicago, the business is North America's leading producer and marketer of salt. It is a subsidiary of the German company K+S.-History:The company began in...
  
   of the United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...