When Hannah Thrasher was born on 1 August 1861, in Westmeath Township, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, her father, Abraham Thrasher, was 28 and her mother, Jane Harriet Horricks, was 21. She married William Wilson on 24 July 1889, in Renfrew, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 5 January 1912, in Renfrew, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 50.
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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.
English: occupational name from Middle English thressher ‘thresher’, a derivative of Old English therscan, threscan, thryscan ‘to thresh’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Drescher .
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