When Benjamin Hilliard was born on 19 December 1870, in Lanark, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Hilliard, was 47 and his mother, Ann Bowland, was 46. He married Lizzie Lawson on 11 August 1902, in Pakenham Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Ramsay Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died in 1945, in Saskatchewan, Canada, at the age of 75.
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
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.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
English (southeastern England and Midlands):
variant of Hillier , with excrescent -d. Compare Hillard , Heller , and Hellard .
of Norman origin, from the Middle English female personal name Hildiard, Holdiard, Anglo-Norman French forms of ancient Germanic Hildigard, Hildiardis, from hild ‘battle’ + gard ‘protective enclosure, yard’. Either this or the name above was brought to Ireland from Yorkshire in the 17th century.
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