Brief Life History of Janet Cameron
When Janet Cameron Galbraith was born on 25 April 1873, in Holland Township, Grey, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Hugh Galbraith, was 33 and her mother, Ann Galbraith, was 30. She married George Nelson Ellis on 15 September 1901, in Carnarvon, Peterborough, Canada West, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Algoma, Ontario, Canada for about 30 years. She died in 1949, in Gordon, Manitoulin, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 76, and was buried in Providence Bay Cemetery, Providence Bay, Central Manitoulin, Manitoulin, Ontario, Canada.
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- Janet Galbraith in household of John Galbraith, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Jannet Ellis, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Janet McArthur in the Canada, Find a Grave Index, 1600s-Current
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1877
Oldest grave seen in the Memorials List
1883 · Mining Boom
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.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Name Meaning
Scottish: ethnic name for a Strathclyde Briton, from Gaelic gall Breathnach ‘British foreigner’. Compare Gall .
History: This name is first recorded as a surname in the Lennox, a rich agricultural region north of Glasgow under the Campsie Fells, in the 12th century. In early medieval times the region to which Lennox belongs was an independent Welsh-speaking kingdom, with its capital at Dumbarton. It was not integrated into the rest of Scotland until 1124. The first recorded chief of the Galbraiths was Gilchrist ‘the Briton’, living in 1193.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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