When Samuel Chambers was born on 8 September 1853, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Henry Chambers, was 33 and his mother, Ellen Butler, was 19. He married Jennet Imrie on 21 January 1874, in Fenelon, Victoria, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Fenelon, Victoria, Ontario, Canada in 1881 and Souris, Manitoba, Canada in 1926.
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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.
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from Middle English chaumbre ‘room (in a house); reception room in a palace or official building’ (Old French chambre). It is identical in implied function with the Chamberlain , which denoted an official: to pay in cameram was to pay into the exchequer, of which the camerarius or chamberer was in charge. The surname also applied to clerks employed there. As the office of Chamberlain rose in the social scale, this term remained reserved for more humble servants of the bedchamber or private quarters.
(of Norman origin): habitational name from Les Chambres, Manche (France).
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