When Robert Gordon was born on 19 August 1863, in Hastings, Ontario, Canada, his father, Robert Gordon, was 40 and his mother, Susan Hyland or Hiland, was 26. He married Eliza McClintock on 24 April 1893, in Madoc Township, Hastings, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Madoc Township, Hastings, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 2 March 1929, in Hastings, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 65.
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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 Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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