Brief Life History of Susan
When Susan Reed was born about 15 February 1866, in Sand Bay Corner, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, her father, Duncan Reed, was 28 and her mother, Electa Cross, was 30. She married George Slack on 24 January 1886, in Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Lansdowne, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Leeds, Upper Canada, British North America for about 10 years. She died on 1 August 1938, in Gananoque, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in Sand Bay Cemetery, Sand Bay Corner, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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- Susan Read in household of Duncan Read, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Susan Reed, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Susan Reed Slack, "Find A Grave Index"
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1867 · Ontario Founded
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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1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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