When James Cochrane was born in 1837, in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Cochrane, was 26 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Aitkens, was 21. He had at least 2 sons with Mary Anne McKee. He lived in Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada in 1871.
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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.
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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.
Scottish (central Scotland): variant of Cochran .
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