When Margaret Lane was born on 18 December 1834, in Augusta Township, Grenville, Upper Canada, British North America, her father, Henry Lane Jr., was 24 and her mother, Anna Davidson, was 18. She had at least 1 daughter with Joseph Falkner. She lived in Elizabethtown Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died on 2 December 1914, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in North Augusta, Augusta Township, Leeds and Grenville, 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.
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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.
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a lane, from Middle English, Old English lane, originally a narrow way between fences or hedges, later used to denote any narrow pathway, including one between houses in a town.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Laighin ‘descendant of Laighean’, a byname meaning ‘spear or javelin’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luain ‘descendant of Luan’, a byname meaning ‘warrior’, formerly Anglicized as O'Loan. See also Lamb .
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