When Sarah Goheen was born in 1837, in Hamilton Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Goheen, was 29 and her mother, Ophelia Hogeboom, was 28. She lived in Hope, Durham, Ontario, Canada in 1851 and Cavan, Durham, Ontario, Canada in 1861.
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On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
British Columbia joins the confederation.
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
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