When Robert Thomas Cockburn was born in 1865, in Puslinch Township, Wellington, Ontario, Canada, his father, Hugh Cockburn, was 30 and his mother, Margaret Beattie, was 37. He married Mary Gowanlock Kerr on 15 October 1886, in Puslinch Township, Wellington, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 28 April 1925, in Wellington, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 60.
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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.
Scottish (Midlothian) and northern English: habitational name from a place in Berwickshire named Cockburn, from Old English cocc ‘cock, rooster’ (or the related byname Cocca) + burna ‘stream’ (see Bourne ). This surname is traditionally pronounced Coburn.
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