When John Fenton was born about 1874, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Daniel C Fenton, was 34 and his mother, Susan Kaiser, was 35. He married Jennie Ferguson on 3 October 1900, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Pickering, Ontario, Ontario, Canada in 1881.
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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.
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee 1 and Finnerty ).
Scottish: habitational name from Fenton in East Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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