Brief Life History of Bertha "Birdie"
When Bertha "Birdie" Oakes was born on 7 May 1881, in Wellesley Township, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Wesley Oakes, was 42 and her mother, Catharine Spies, was 36. She married Morley Ham Shibley on 12 December 1908, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1911. She died on 7 June 1970, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 89, and was buried in Burnaby, Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Family Time Line
Sources (11)
- Alberta Shibley in household of Morley Ham Shibley, "Canada Census, 1911"
- Bertha Oakes, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Birdie M Oakes, "Canada, Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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World Events (7)
1883 · Mining Boom
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.
1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name, a variant of Oak with either an original plural -s or an excescent -s added later to the surname.
Irish (Louth, Wexford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhdara ‘son of Dubhdara’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’ + dara(ch), genitive of dair ‘oak’, by translation of the main element of the Gaelic name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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