When Walter Burton Falkner was born in June 1873, in Ontario, Ontario, Canada, his father, Lebius Wickware Falkner, was 36 and his mother, Harriet Josephine Dudley, was 30. He died on 18 April 1932, in Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 58, and was buried in Elizabethtown-Kitley Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
German: occupational name for a falconer, Middle High German valkenaere. In medieval times falconry was a sport practised only by the nobility; it was the task of the falconer to look after the birds and train young ones.
English: variant of Faulkner .
History: Daniel Falckner (1666–c. 1745), German Lutheran pastor and agent for the Frankfurt Land Company, founded the first German Lutheran congregation in America.
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