When Dennis Regan was born in 1871, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Cornelius Regan, was 42 and his mother, Hanora Hanna Nora Murphy Regan, was 36. He died on 18 December 1904, in McGillivray Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 33, and was buried in Mount Carmel, Huron, Canada West, British Colonial America.
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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.
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Eamon, Seamus, Bridie, Caitlin, Donovan, Dympna, Fintan, James Patrick, Kieran, Malachy, Michael Patrick.
Irish: shortened form of O'Regan , an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ríagáin ‘descendant of Riagán’, a personal name which is perhaps akin to ríodhach ‘impulsive, furious’. It can also be from Mag Riagáin ‘son of Riagán’. Compare Ryan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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