When Salome Israel was born on 21 July 1870, in Williamsburg, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, her father, George M. Israel, was 28 and her mother, Magdalena Shoemaker, was 26. She married Jacob Henry Schafer on 28 January 1891, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1916 and Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1926. She died on 4 June 1952, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 81.
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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.
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Hyman, Faina, Shimon, Avi, Ehud, Elihu, Gerson, Isadore, Merav, Meyer.
Jewish, German, Welsh, English, Haitian, and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the Hebrew personal name Yisra’el, in German and English Israel ‘Fighter of God’. In the Bible this is a byname bestowed on Jacob after he had wrestled with the angel at the ford of Jabbok (Genesis 32:24–8). In Germany, it was used as a personal name in the Middle Ages among Christians, too, and in Wales and southern England it was used among Nonconformists from the 17th century onward.
Jewish: surname adopted by Jews with reference to the ancient Kingdom of Israel, destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC , or to the concept of Jewish nationhood, or, in modern times, to the state of Israel.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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