When William Hamilton Merritt was born on 3 December 1867, in Scotland, Oakland, Brant, Ontario, Canada, his father, Thomas Underhill Merritt, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Louisa Bungay, was 25. He married Annie Maud Haken on 17 December 1890, in Norwich Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Grey, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 1 February 1942, at the age of 74, and was buried in Greenwood, Pickering, Ontario, 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.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
English: variant of Merriott , Marriott , or Marritt. The last of these is most often a variant of Merriott or Marriott , but possibly in some instances from Middle English Marret or Merret, a syncopated form of Margaret, Mergeret.
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