When Charles Proctor was born on 20 September 1870, in Ontario, Ontario, Canada, his father, Charles Proctor, was 37 and his mother, Anne Webb, was 30. He married Alice Helena Stuart on 12 April 1909, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Pickering, 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 (northern): occupational name from Middle English prok(e)tour ‘steward’ (shortened from Old French procurateour, Latin procurator ‘agent’, from procurare ‘to manage’). The term was used most commonly of an attorney in a spiritual court, but also of other officials such as collectors of taxes and agents licensed to collect alms on behalf of lepers and enclosed orders of monks.
History: John Proctor (died 1757) was a prominent citizen of Boston, MA, and is buried in the King's Chapel Burying Ground there.
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