When Jennie Blanch Smith was born on 6 May 1889, in Parrsboro, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Henry Moore Smith, was 37 and her mother, Alvaretta Taylor, was 36. She married Wendall Amon on 23 November 1904, in Parrsboro, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 5 October 1957, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 68.
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Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
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English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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