When Sarah Jane Alice Quaife was born about 1869, in Ontario, Canada, her father, Samuel Spencer Quaife, was 48 and her mother, Sarah Moon, was 45. She had at least 1 daughter. She lived in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada in 1871 and Chaffey Township, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada in 1881. She died on 20 December 1886, in Huntsville, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 18.
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
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.
Irish and Manx: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Caoimh (see O'Keefe ). Gaelic c followed by a, o, or u is often Anglicized as q in Manx.
English (Sussex): of Norman origin, a nickname from Old French coif ‘coif’, a kind of close-fitting cap, presumably denoting someone who was a maker or habitual wearer of such caps.
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