Brief Life History of Jean
Jean Bosquet was born in 1836, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Sources (2)
- Jean Bosquet, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"
- Jean Bosquet, "Canada Marriages, 1661-1949"
Spouse and Children
World Events (3)
1867 · Ontario Founded
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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1883 · Mining Boom
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.
Name Meaning
French: mainly northern variant of Bousquet ‘little wood’ and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. It is a cognate of 2 below.
Catalan: habitational name from a place called Bosquet in Tarragona or topographic name from a diminutive of bosc ‘wood’ (see Bosch ).
History: This surname (see 1 above) is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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