When Alice Louise Hummel was born in June 1858, in Ontario, Canada, her father, George F. Hummell, was 36 and her mother, Eliza Harrington, was 35. She married Jacob Daniel Beckstead on 19 September 1882, in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Orillia, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada in 1931. She died on 22 December 1945, in Canada, at the age of 87.
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In 1840, the government bought extra land from the First Nations and laid out the settlement of Orillia. The population in 1846 was about 200. The settlement had a church, a post office, four stores, three taverns, a tannery, two blacksmiths, four shoemakers, a tailor, and two furniture makers. A grist mill could be found about a mile away. In 1869, the population was 1200. Construction of the Monck Road began in 1866 and was completed in 1873. A 100-mile stretch allowed for travel to Bancroft, Ontario where other roads could be found for travel to Ottawa. Transportation links with Toronto and Georgian Bay stimulated Orillia's development as a commercial centre and summer resort.[10] The village of Orillia was incorporated in 1867 (sharing the same birth year as Canada). By 1875, the population was 2,000 and Orillia became a town with a mayor, reeve, deputy reeve, and nine councillors. Orillia was designated a city in 1969.
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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.
German and Dutch: from a pet form of Humbert or Humbold (a compound name with the same first element + bald ‘bold, brave’).
German, Dutch, and Danish (of German origin): nickname for a busy or bustling person, from Middle High German hummel, Middle Dutch hommel ‘bee’, of imitative origin. Compare English humblebee, which in modern English has become bumblebee.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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