Brief Life History of John Lewis
When John Lewis Long was born on 29 April 1864, in Saint Marys, York, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, William Long, was 58 and his mother, Jane Kelly, was 36. He lived in Maugerville, Sunbury, New Brunswick, Canada in 1871. He died on 22 April 1873, in Saint Marys, York, New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 8.
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- John Long in household of William Long, "Canada Census, 1871"
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1867 · British North America Act
The British North America Act or Constitution Act of 1867 caused three British colonies, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada to be united as one under the name Canada. Until this point New Brunswick had been the British crown colony.
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1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
Name Meaning
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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