When George Herbert Stoliker was born on 8 June 1873, in Maple Grove, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Ambrose Stoliker II, was 44 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, was 36. He married Carrie Drucilla Clare on 18 November 1893, in Gananoque, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Thurlow Township, Hastings, Ontario, Canada in 1931. He died on 10 April 1947, in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 73, and was buried in Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Altered form of Scottish or English Stalker .
Possibly also an altered form of Dutch Stolker: habitational name for someone who came from Stolwijk, South Holland.
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