When James Hall Wightman was born on 30 October 1847, in Hastings, Ontario, Canada, his father, Henry Wightman, was 30 and his mother, Harriet Hall, was 21. He married Mary Charles Hanna on 24 May 1875, in Dungannon, Huron, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in West Wawanosh Township, Huron, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Manitoba, Canada in 1881. He died on 1 March 1922, in Algoma, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma, 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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English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English wight, Older Scots wicht ‘brave, strong; swift, nimble, agile’ (see Wight ) + man ‘man’, also used in Middle English as a personal name. It may sometimes have been confused with Whiteman , a variant of Whitman .
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