When Christine Fisher was born on 29 March 1839, in Bathurst Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, her father, Malcolm Fisher, was 25 and her mother, Margaret McNee, was 18. She married Robert Allan on 6 January 1864, in Lanark, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. She lived in Lanark, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died on 29 August 1912, in North Burgess Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 73, and was buried in Scotch Line Cemetery, Tay Valley Township, Lanark, 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: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .
English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.
Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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