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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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.
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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.
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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