When Eliza Margaret Wardlaw was born in October 1847, in Etobicoke, York, Ontario, Canada, her father, Peter Wardlaw, was 26 and her mother, Julia A. Clarke, was 26. She married Samuel Kee on 28 December 1887, in York, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Cardwell, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Dufferin, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 1 January 1933, in Etobicoke, York, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 85, and was buried in Etobicoke, Toronto, 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.
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.
Scottish: probably a habitational name from Wardlaw, in Kirkhill, Inverness, which is recorded as Wardelaue in 1202, or perhaps Wardlaw in Ayrs. However, the possibility that the Scottish family is related to the Wardlow family of Wardlow (Derbys) cannot be ruled out. The placenames derive from Old English weard ‘watch’ + hlāw ‘mound, hill’.
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