When Herbert Edgar Bowles was born on 23 January 1875, in Fenelon Falls, Peterborough, Canada West, British Colonial America, his father, William Henry Bowles, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Ann Glaspell, was 21. He married Mary Ella Kinler on 27 November 1922, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Tiny Township, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Simcoe, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died in 1965, in Niagara, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 90, and was buried in Fonthill-Brown Cemetery, Fonthill, Pelham, Niagara, 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.
English: variant of Bowell , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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