When Abraham Richard Empey was born on 23 September 1880, in Morrisburg, South Dundas, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, his father, Charles Walter Empey, was 49 and his mother, Charlotte Jane Pruner, was 45. He married Mary Ellen Hawkins on 3 February 1908, in Berlin, Coos, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1881. He was buried in Iroquois, Matilda Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, 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.
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Born on May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets were the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy. The five girls were born two months prematuare and months later were taken from their parents by the Red Cross. In the 1940s they were returned to their family.
English (London): variant of Impey .
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