When Sarah Ann Hayes was born in 1821, in Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America, her father, Eri Hayes, was 41 and her mother, Anna Derbyshire, was 33. She married Albert Blanchard on 9 November 1849, in Lombardy, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in South Elmsley Township, Leeds, Canada West, British North America in 1871 and Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1881. She died about 1892, in Lombardy, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in Lombardy, Leeds and Grenville, 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.
Irish (Cork): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hAodha ‘descendant of Aodh’, a personal name meaning ‘fire’. Compare McCoy . In some cases especially in County Wexford, the surname is of English origin (see below), having been taken to Ireland by the Normans.
English: variant of Hay , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: topographic name from the plural form of Middle English hay(e), heye, heghe ‘enclosure’ (see Hay ), sometimes used as a collective noun for a farm, especially in Devon, where it is a frequent minor placename. Compare Hain .
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