When Charles P. Falkner was born on 21 September 1870, in Elizabethtown-Kitley Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, Lebius Wickware Falkner, was 33 and his mother, Harriet Josephine Dudley, was 27. He lived in Elizabethtown Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 26 April 1927, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 56, and was buried in Gosford Cemetery, North Augusta, Augusta Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
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.
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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