When William James Bentley was born on 6 September 1870, in Ontario, Ontario, Canada, his father, William George Bentley, was 38 and his mother, Louisa Cooper Funnell, was 25. He married Sarah Nina Warner on 9 August 1895, in Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Aurora, York, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and King Township, York, Ontario, Canada in 1881. He died on 23 April 1923, in Cochrane, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 52, and was buried in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
English: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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