Brief Life History of Arthur Edward
When Arthur Edward Hopper was born about 1856, in Merivale, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Hopper, was 39 and his mother, Jane Evans, was 40. He had at least 4 sons and 1 daughter with Emma C. Stewart. He lived in Hull, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada in 1881 and Carleton, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 16 February 1939, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 84, and was buried in Merivale, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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- Arthur Hopper, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Arthur Edward Hopper, "Find A Grave Index"
- Arthur E Hopper in entry for Wilbert Clayton Hopper and Eva Luella Hill, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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1867 · Ontario Founded
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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a dancer, from an agent derivative of Middle English hoppen ‘to dance, hop, leap’ (Old English hoppian). See Hoppe 4.
English: topographic name from Middle English hoper, hopper, in Sussex and Kent denoting someone who lived at a remote place, probably an enclosed piece of land in marsh. The name derives from Middle English hop (see Hope ) + -er, and was interchangeable with (atte) hope.
English: possibly a variant of Hooper .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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