When Margaret Henderson was born on 16 July 1854, in Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, her father, John Henderson, was 40 and her mother, Sarah J Trites, was 23. She married George Albert Read on 31 December 1873, in Amherst, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada in 1901. She died on 11 November 1937, in Sackville, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Four Corners Burying Ground, Upper Sackville, Sackville Town, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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On February 25, 1880, the legislature building in Frederiction was destroyed by fire. The builiding was completely made of wood meaning that there was nothing left of it. The chair that the speaker used and a marble top table were all that remained.
English and Scottish: usually from Middle English and Older Scots Hener(i)son ‘Henry's son’, occasionally from Middle English Hendeson ‘son of Hen’, a pet form of Henry , both with an intrusive -d-. Compare Hendrie . In Scotland Henderson was sometimes substituted for McKendrick .
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