When William Armitage was born on 27 March 1827, in Newmarket, York, Ontario, Canada, his father, Seth Armitage, was 30 and his mother, Anna Phillips, was 30. He married Rachel Peregrine on 9 February 1851, in Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Tecumseth Township, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 11 December 1916, in York, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 89, and was buried in Newmarket, 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: topographic name from Middle English, Old French (h)ermitage ‘hermitage’ (a derivative of Old French (h)ermite ‘hermit’), or a habitational name from a place called with this word. The name is very common in Yorkshire, where it has been traced to a hermitage in South Crosland, close to Armitage Bridge in Almondbury, near Huddersfield.
History: The name was first brought to North America by Enoch Armitage (born 1677) of Wooldale, Yorkshire, England.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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