When James Thornton Sloan was born in 1839, in Halton, Ontario, Canada, his father, Robert Sloan, was 38 and his mother, Eliza Thornton, was 32. He married Isabella Fox on 3 November 1862, in Essex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 1 July 1889, in Mersea Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 50, and was buried in Gosfield South Township, Essex, 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.
Irish (Down and Antrim) and Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sluaghadháin ‘descendant of Sluaghadhán’, a diminutive of the Gaelic personal name Sluaghadh ‘raider’. Compare Slowey .
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