Brief Life History of Elias Darch
When Elias Darch Blake was born on 29 November 1842, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, his father, William Blake, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Darch, was 24. He had at least 8 sons with Ann Jane McCullough. He died on 8 April 1926, in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 83, and was buried in Ontario, Canada.
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- Elias Blake in household of William Blake, "Canada Census, 1871"
- Elias Darch Blake, "Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947"
- E D Blake in entry for Wm C Blake and Violet Perkins, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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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.
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1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish (England and central Scotland): variant of Black 1, meaning ‘swarthy’ or ‘dark-haired’, from a byform of the Old English adjective blæc, blac ‘black’, with change of vowel length.
English: nickname from Middle English blak(e) (Old English blāc) ‘wan, pale, white, fair’. In Middle English the two words blac and blāc, with opposite meanings, fell together as Middle English blake. In the absence of independent evidence as to whether the person referred to was dark or fair, it is now impossible to tell which sense was originally meant.
English (Norfolk): nickname from Middle English bleik, blaik>, blek(e) (Old Norse bleikr) ‘pale or sallow’ (in complexion).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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