Brief Life History of Cora Sophia
When Cora Sophia Oppertshauser was born in 1858, in Hanover, Grey, Ontario, Canada, her father, Johann Henrich Oppertshauser, was 47 and her mother, Anna Margaretha Hartmann, was 35. She died on 10 June 1933, in Hamilton, Hamilton-Wentworth, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 75.
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- Cora Sophia Oppenheiser, „Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947“
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World Events (5)
1867 · Ontario Founded
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.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1883 · Mining Boom
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.
Name Meaning
Name apparently coined by James Fenimore Cooper for one of the characters in The Last of the Mohicans ( 1826 ). It could represent a Latinized form of Greek Korē ‘maiden’. In classical mythology this was a euphemistic name of the goddess of the underworld, Persephone, and would not have been a well-omened name to take. Nevertheless, this has not proved an obstacle to its use in the English-speaking world.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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