When Alma Etta Alyea was born on 7 February 1877, in Ameliasburg Township, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Alyea, was 43 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Sagar, was 36. She married Austin Reddick on 19 December 1900. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 16 September 1960, in Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Wellington, Prince Edward, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Americanized form of French D'Ailly or Dailly . Compare Allee 2 and Elyea .
History: This surname is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (along with several variants, including Allée, and the original form d'Ailly). The Huguenot ancestor was Nicolas d'Ailly, who came from France to NY c. 1682 via the Netherlands and England and died in NJ c. 1700.
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