When Charles Powley was born about 1789, in Kingston, Frontenac, Canada West, British North America, his father, Johann Jacob Powley, was 46 and his mother, Annatje Jellise Van Vorst, was 32. In 1841, at the age of 53, his occupation is listed as road master of kingston township in Kingston, Frontenac, 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 (mainly Norfolk): perhaps a shortened form of Powling, either a nickname for someone with a distinctive head or hair or who had a shaved head (from an unrecorded Middle English polling, a derivative of Middle English polle ‘head, hair of the head’ or pollen ‘to cut (hair), shave (someone's head)’ + the noun-forming suffix -ing); or a habitational name from Poling in Sussex; or a variant of Pullan and Pullen .
Probably an altered form of German Pauli or Pauly .
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