Blyth is a community in the municipality of North Huron, Huron County, Ontario, Canada. It is located southwest of the town of Wingham on Huron Road 4, west of Walton on Huron County Road 25 and geographically south of the town of Lucknow. It is the center for an annual drama festival called the Blyth Festival (at the Blyth Festival Theatre). Since its inception in 1975, it has premiered 100 Canadian plays. Plays developed at the Blyth Festival have won Governor General 's Awards and a number of Chalmers Awards. It plays to audiences of between forty and fifty thousand annually.Blyth has the status of a designated place in Canadian censuses. It had a population of 1,005 in the Canada 2011 Census.