When Martha Graham was born about 8 June 1831, in Escott, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, her father, William Graham, was 46 and her mother, Martha Ralph, was 33. She had at least 6 sons and 5 daughters with Benjamin B Warren. She lived in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 14 March 1914, in Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 82, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Lansdowne, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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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 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.
Scottish: habitational name from Grantham in Lincolnshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Graham (as well as Grantham, Grandham, and Granham). See also Grantham .
Irish (especially Ulster): in Ireland Graham is generally the Scottish name, but it has additionally been adopted as an Anglicized form of both Ó Creacháin (see Crehan ) and Ó Gormghaile (see Gormley ).
History: The surname Graham was taken to Scotland at the beginning of the 12th century by the Norman baron William de Graham, holder of the manor of Grantham in Lincolnshire, from whom many if not all modern bearers are probably descended. The chief of Clan Graham is the Duke of Montrose.
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