When Mary Fife was born on 8 June 1869, in Otonabee Township, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Malcolm Fife, was 40 and her mother, Margaret Drummond, was 35. She had at least 4 daughters with William Samuel Wildman. She lived in Northumberland, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Peterborough, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died in January 1944, in Otonabee Township, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Norwood, Peterborough, Canada West, British North America.
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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.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Scottish: habitational name from the province and former kingdom of Fife in East Scotland, a name of obscure etymology. Tradition has it that the name is derived from an eponymous Fib, one of the seven sons of Cruithne, legendary founding father of the Picts.
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