When Mathieu Peltier was born on 28 September 1838, in Tilbury, Kent, Upper Canada, British North America, his father, Gabriel Peltier, was 37 and his mother, Marie Ann Roi, was 33.
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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.
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: French Pierre, Andre, Emile, Marcel, Aime, Alphonse, Armand, Clovis, Desire, Gilles, Jacques, Jean-Claude.
French: variant of Pelletier ‘furrier’.
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