When Charles Barfett was born about 1859, in Ontario, Canada, his father, John Rice Barfett, was 35 and his mother, Charlott Maria Knight, was 35. He married Susan B Villacott on 13 October 1881, in London, Canada West, British North America. He lived in Newcastle, Durham, Ontario, Canada in 1871.
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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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Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): probably a nickname for a quarrelsome person, from Old French barat, Middle English bar(r)at, bar(r)et(te) ‘trouble, distress’, later ‘deception, fraud; contention, strife’. Through Norman settlement it also became common in Ireland, where it was Gaelicized as Baróid (Munster) and Baréid (Connacht).
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