When Mary Jane Bruton was born on 22 July 1862, in Brooke, Lambton, Canada West, British North America, her father, William Frederick Richmond Bruton, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Boyle, was 26. She married Alexander Bruce on 15 January 1891, in Moore, Lambton, Canada West, British North America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Brooke, Lambton, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Lambton, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 23 January 1944, in Brigden, Lambton, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 81, and was buried in Petrolia, Lambton, 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 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
English: habitational name from Bruton in Somerset or Bruton in Whitchurch, Warwickshire. The Somerset example is named as ‘settlement (Old English tūn) on the Brue river’. The river name is derived from a British element cognate with Welsh bryw ‘brisk, vigorous’. Bruton in Warwickshire is from Old English brōc ‘brook’ + tūn ‘settlement’. This surname is also common in Ireland, where it may be a variant of Brunton . Compare Brewton .
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