When Margaret Flora Bell Beckstead was born on 11 May 1865, in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, her father, Adam Gilbert Beckstead, was 28 and her mother, Catherine Maria Wells, was 27. She married Samuel Lindsay Casselman on 8 May 1889, in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Dundas, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 16 February 1920, in Williamsburgh Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 54, and was buried in Riverside Heights, South Dundas, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, 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.
Americanized form of North German Beckstedde or Beckstedt: topographic name from Low German Beck ‘stream’ + -stedde ‘place’, or a habitational name from Beckstedt near Wildeshausen, Oldenburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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