When James Stillwell was born on 12 September 1852, in Middleton Township, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Stillwell, was 29 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Buchner, was 23. He married Ellen Bartlett on 4 October 1877, in Ontario, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Malahide Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Norfolk, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 31 March 1932, in Tillsonburg, Oxford, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Tillsonburg, Oxford, 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.
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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: habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, probably in Surrey. The placename derives from Middle English stighel, stile ‘stile’ + welle ‘well, spring, stream’. Compare Stile .
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