When Ann Aikens was born in 1845, in Guysborough, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, William Aikens, was 52 and her mother, Mary Davidson, was 42. She died on 10 November 1925, in Stratford, Perth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 80.
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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.
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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: variant of Atkin , with genitival or excrescent -s (compare Atkins ).
Dutch and East Frisian: patronymic from the personal name Aike, a diminutive of Aai/Aie, a variant or a short form of the personal names Aaielt, Age, Ad(d)e or Adriaan. In North America, this surname may also be an altered form of the variant Eikens .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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