When Allan Hess was born in 1859, in Dundas, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Abraham Hess, was 37 and his mother, Sevila Ann Hunter, was 28. He married Euretta Fetterly on 3 November 1884, in Dundas, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died in 1926, at the age of 67.
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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.
German, Dutch, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from the territory of Hesse (see Hessen 1).
South German: from a short form of the personal name Matthäus (see Matthew ).
German and Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Hesso, a derivative of a compound name formed with hadu ‘strife’ as the first element, or from a pet form of Herman or Hendrik (see Henry 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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