When Reverend Horace David Cooper was born about 17 July 1838, in Clinton, Huron, Ontario, Canada, his father, Rev Henry Cholwell Cooper, was 31 and his mother, Susan Bowden, was 27. He married Selina Caroline Ruthven on 20 July 1864. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Georgina, York, Ontario, Canada in 1861 and Algoma, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 1 June 1909, in Fort William, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 70, and was buried in Islington, Toronto, 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.
English: occupational name for a maker and repairer of wooden vessels such as barrels, tubs, buckets, casks, and vats, from Middle English couper, cowper (apparently from Middle Dutch kūper, a derivative of kūp ‘tub, container’, which was borrowed independently into English as coop). The prevalence of the surname, its cognates, and equivalents bears witness to the fact that this was one of the chief specialist trades in the Middle Ages throughout Europe. In North America, the English surname has absorbed some cases of like-sounding cognates from other languages, for example Dutch Kuiper .
Americanized form of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Kupfer and Kupper (see Kuper ).
Dutch: occupational name for a buyer or merchant, Middle Dutch coper.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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