When Wilford Woodruff Pegg was born on 15 October 1844, in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph Pegg, was 45 and his mother, Margaret Ann Huffman, was 34. He married Annie Tasker on 24 December 1879, in Trafalgar, Halton, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in East Gwillimbury Township, York, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and York, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 12 March 1903, at the age of 58, 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 (mainly Leicestershire):
from Middle Englishpegge ‘peg’ (from Middle Dutch, of uncertain origin), appliedas a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of wooden pegs,or perhaps a nickname for a person with a wooden leg.
perhaps in some cases from the female personal name, a short formof Margaret.
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