When Robert William Reddick was born in 1829, in Madoc Township, Hastings, Upper Canada, British North America, his father, Sylvester Reddick, was 26 and his mother, Polly Ann Herrington, was 13. He married Mary Catherine Wanamaker on 11 January 1853, in Victoria, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1900, in Madoc Township, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 71.
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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.
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In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Scottish: perhaps a habitational name from Rerrick (Kirkcudbrightshire), itself from Old Norse hreyrr ‘boundary, cairn’ + eik ‘oak’ or perhaps, with modification by Gaelic-speakers, vík ‘bay’.
English (Surrey and Middlesex): habitational name from Redwick in Gloucestershire from Old English hrēod ‘reed’ + wīc ‘outlying settlement’.
North German: variant of Reddich, an occupational name for a greengrocer or vegetable dealer, from Middle Low German redik ‘radish’. The surname Reddick is very rare in Germany; in North America it may also be an altered form of any of its variants and other similar (like-sounding) surnames (compare Redick ).
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