When John Stone was born on 22 November 1853, in Perth, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, his father, Robert Stone, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Leonard, was 30. He married Lydia Ellen Hunter on 12 October 1877, in Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in North Elmsley Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Lanark, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 23 July 1941, in Smiths Falls, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 87.
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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.
English: from Middle English ston(e) ‘stone, rock’ (Old English stān). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived on stony ground, by a notable outcrop of rock, or by a stone boundary-marker or monument, or habitational, from a place called Stone, such as those in Buckinghamshire, Devon, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Somerset, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire.
Irish (Kilkenny): adopted for Irish Ó Clochartaigh (see Clougherty ) and/or Ó Clochasaigh (see Clohessy ), and possibly several other names containing or thought to contain the element cloch ‘stone’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various surnames in other languages, meaning ‘stone’, including Jewish Stein , Norwegian Steine, French Lapierre .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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