When Ruth Howland was born on 27 June 1875, in Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Robert Howland, was 33 and her mother, Elizabeth Ann Gibson, was 35. She married James Miller Gawley on 30 April 1894, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in York, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada in 1931. She died on 23 April 1962, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 86, and was buried in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
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.
English: variant of Holland .
Americanized form of Norwegian Hovland .
History: Howland was the name of three Quaker brothers, original settlers in Marshfield, MA. They were from Huntingdonshire, England. The eldest, John Howland (c. 1593–1672) was a passenger on the Mayflower, servant to Gov. John Carver, who died in the first winter at Plymouth Colony.
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