When Sarah Elizabeth Parsons was born on 6 November 1851, in Fairbank, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, her father, Matthew Parsons, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth Sophia McKAY, was 31. She married Peter George Wardlaw on 31 March 1875, in York Township, York, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 10 June 1929, in Thornhill, York, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 77, and was buried in Nashville Cemetery, Nashville, York, 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.
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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 for the servant of a parish priest or parson, from the possessive case of Middle English persone, parsoun (see Parson ).
English: many early examples are found with the prepositions (e.g. Ralph del Persones 1323); these are habitational names, with the omission of house, hence in effect occupational names for servants employed at the parson's house.
English: post-medieval variant of Parson , with excrescent -s. Alternatively, Parson may be a shortened form of Parsons.
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