Brief Life History of Louisa
When Louisa Barfett was born about 1856, in Ontario, Canada, her father, John Rice Barfett, was 32 and her mother, Charlott Maria Knight, was 32. She lived in Brighton, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada in 1871. She died on 17 April 1926, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Louisa Barfett, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Legacy NFS Source: Louisa Barfett - Published information: birth-name: Louisa Barfett
- Louise Barfett, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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1867 · Ontario Founded
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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1883 · Mining Boom
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.
Name Meaning
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).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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