When Mary Elizabeth Dowsley was born on 25 July 1862, in Elizabethtown-Kitley Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, her father, Richard Dowsley, was 26 and her mother, Catherine Healey, was 29. She married Peter Davis on 30 June 1885, in Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 23 August 1944, in Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 82, and was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Brockville, 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 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
English: possibly a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place. Compare Tousley and Towslee .
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