When Harriet Matthews was born on 26 January 1882, in Denfield, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, her father, Benjamin Matthews, was 33 and her mother, Sarah Jane Haskett, was 28. She married Joseph Fergus Linden on 29 March 1905, in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada in 1931. She died on 15 November 1970, in Exeter, Huron, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 88, and was buried in Birr, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
English and Irish (Ulster and County Louth): patronymic from the personal name Matthew . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, such as German Matthäus (from the personal name Matthäus, from Latin Matthaeus) and Slovenian Matavž (from an obsolete vernacular form of the personal name Matevž, from Latin Matthaeus). Compare Mathews .
Irish: Anglicized form of Mac Mathghamhna (see McMahon ).
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