When Edward M C Walters was born on 4 March 1878, in Clinton Township, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, his father, Frederick Henry Walters, was 55 and his mother, Sarah Ann Anderson, was 48. He married Lena Belle Shepherd about 1895, in Lincoln, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Niagara, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died in 1945, in Grimsby Township, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 67.
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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: variant of Walter , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
German: patronymic from Walter .
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