Brief Life History of Margaret Agnes
When Margaret Agnes Sheets was born on 28 October 1837, in Sheek Island, New Johnstown, Stormont, Upper Canada, British North America, her father, Jacob Sheets, was 47 and her mother, Anna Nancy Blair, was 40. She married Ephraim Paupst on 2 February 1859, in Cornwall, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 19 May 1921, in Northfield Station, South Stormont Township, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83.
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- Margaret A Sheets, "Canada Census, 1851"
- Margaret Sheets, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
- Margaret Poapst, "Ontario Deaths,1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
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1867 · Ontario Founded
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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1883 · Mining Boom
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.
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Americanized form of German Schütz (see Schutz ).
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