When William Barfett was born about 1864, in Ontario, Canada, his father, John Rice Barfett, was 40 and his mother, Charlott Maria Knight, was 40. 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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