When Alexandre Dorion was born on 23 July 1868, in Lafontaine, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, his father, Pierre Dorion dit Champagne, was 42 and his mother, Marie Jennette Geneviève Dubeau, was 37. He married Marie Elizabeth Cadeau on 15 July 1890, in Lafontaine, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Tiny Township, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada in 1871. He died on 23 November 1955, in Penetanguishene, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 87, and was buried in Midland, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Some characteristic forenames: French Alphonse, Andre, Armand, Emile, Pierre.
French: habitational name, with the preposition d(e) ‘from’, for someone from any of several places called Orion, in particular in Somme and Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
History: Pierre Dorion from Salies-de-Béarn in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, married Jeanne Hédouin in Quebec City, QC, in 1688.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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