When Margaret Kilpatrick Forrester was born on 23 August 1856, in Milton, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, John George Forrester, was 27 and her mother, Jeanette Janet Kilpatrick, was 27. She had at least 8 sons and 3 daughters with John William Moffat. She lived in Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died on 23 November 1911, in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 55.
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The Police Act 1857 was an Act put into place by Parliament to establish a mandatory police force in every county of Scotland.
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.
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: occupational name from Middle English forester ‘officer in charge of a forest or lord's hunting ground’ (Old French forestier, Anglo-Norman forester). See Forrest .
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