When Cyrus Vancamp was born on 3 November 1829, in VanCamp, North Dundas Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Van Camp Jr, was 35 and his mother, Abigail Coons, was 29. He married Henrietta A Bush on 23 February 1858, in Mountain Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Canada West, British North America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Wolford Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1891. In 1900, at the age of 70, his occupation is listed as carpenter. He died on 17 March 1900, in Merrickville-Wolford, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 70.
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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 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Dutch and Flemish: topographic name for someone who lived by an open field, from Latin campus ‘plain, uncultivated land’, or a habitational name for someone from a place called with this word, in particular the village of Camp in Flanders near Lille or Camp near Camperduin in the province of North Holland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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