Brief Life History of Margaret Jemina
When Margaret Jemina Smith was born on 22 December 1875, in Augusta Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, her father, William Smith, was 29 and her mother, Margaret Ann Smith, was 19. She married Chapman Leopold Dales on 11 November 1904, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 10 July 1951, in Prescott, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 75, and was buried in Augusta Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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- Margret J Smith, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Margaret Smith, "Canada, Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Margaret Smith, "Canada, Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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World Events (5)
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.
1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name denoting a worker in metal, especially iron, such as a blacksmith or farrier, from Middle English smith ‘smith’ (Old English smith, probably a derivative of smītan ‘to strike, hammer’). Early examples are also found in the Latin form Faber . Metal-working was one of the earliest occupations for which specialist skills were required, and its importance ensured that this term and its equivalents in other languages were the most widespread of all occupational surnames in Europe. Medieval smiths were important not only in making horseshoes, plowshares, and other domestic articles, but above all for their skill in forging swords, other weapons, and armor. This is also the most frequent of all surnames in the US. It is very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below). This surname (in any of the two possible English senses; see also below) is also found in Haiti. See also Smither .
English: from Middle English smithe ‘smithy, forge’ (Old English smiththe). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a blacksmith's shop, occupational, for someone who worked in one, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Smitha in King's Nympton (Devon). Compare Smithey .
Irish and Scottish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac Gobhann, Irish Mac Gabhann ‘son of the smith’. See McGowan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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