When Charles Henry Phillips was born on 9 April 1870, in Elgin, Ontario, Canada, his father, Benjamin Phillips, was 49 and his mother, Amanda Araminta Lynde, was 40. He married Maggie Harris on 15 March 1897, in British Columbia, Canada. He lived in Ontario, Ontario, Canada in 1871.
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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.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
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