Jean Bosquet was born in 1836, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
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.
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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