When Sextus Ruthven Pringle Cooper was born on 24 March 1873, in Holland Landing, East Gwillimbury Township, York, Ontario, Canada, his father, Reverend Horace David Cooper, was 34 and his mother, Selina Caroline Ruthven, was 38. He married Myrtle Louise Harrower on 25 October 1900, in Baldur, Argyle Rural Municipality, Manitoba, Canada. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Victoria Settlement, Smoky Lake County, Alberta, Canada in 1911 and Alberta, Canada in 1916. He died on 8 May 1964, in Vermilion, County of Vermilion River, Alberta, Canada, at the age of 91, and was buried in County of Vermilion River, Alberta, Canada.
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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.
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
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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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