When John See was born in 1812, his father, John Jost See, was 28 and his mother, Mary Snyder, was 19.
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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 and German: topographic name for someone who lived by the sea-shore or beside a lake, from Middle English se ‘sea, lake’ (Old English sǣ), Middle High German sē.
Altered form of French (of Flemish origin) Sy .
Chinese: variant of Si or Xi .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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