When Hiram Sylvester Dunning was born in 1851, in Quebec, Quebec, Canada, his father, Hiram W. Dunning, was 39 and his mother, Joanna Cameron, was 35. He married Catharine Elisabeth Dings about 1875, in Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Communauté-Urbaine-de-l'Outaouais, Quebec, Canada in 1871 and Quebec, Canada in 1878. He died in 1901, at the age of 50.
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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.
Scottish: habitational name from a place called Dunning in Lower Strathearn (Perthshire), recorded in 1200 as Dunine and later as Dunyn, from Gaelic dùnan, a diminutive of dùn ‘fort’.
English: variant of Downing .
Irish: variant of Dineen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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