When Albertina Witmer was born on 7 January 1871, in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, her father, Isaac Groh Witmer, was 28 and her mother, Leah Pannebecker Baer, was 31. She married Noah K Otterbein on 11 October 1893, in Preston, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Wilmot Township, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 29 October 1954, in Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Cambridge, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
German: variant of Wittmer .
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