When Nelson James Marsh was born on 28 November 1881, in Camden, Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Marsh, was 47 and his mother, Matilda Annis Stover, was 43. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1881. He died in 1952, in Chatham, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 71.
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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.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by or in a marsh or fen, Middle English mersch (Old English mersc), or a habitational name from any of various minor places called with this word, for example in Yorkshire, Shropshire and Buckinghamshire.
Americanized form of German Marsch .
Americanized form of Slovenian Marš: unexplained. Compare Mars 7.
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