When Ellen Catherine Merkley was born on 30 April 1848, in Williamsburg, South Dundas, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Adam Merckel, was 56 and her mother, Catherine Eliza Utman, was 36. She had at least 1 daughter with George Alfred Fetterly. She lived in Morrisburg, South Dundas, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1891. She died on 14 August 1905, in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 57.
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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.
Probably an Americanized form of German Merkle .
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