When William Herbert Landon was born on 30 November 1862, in Elizabethtown Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Landon, was 49 and his mother, Anna Mariah Lucy Taylor, was 28. He married Susan Diantha Hannah on 27 December 1899, in Lyn, Elizabethtown-Kitley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 16 April 1940, in Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 77, and was buried in North Augusta, Augusta Township, 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 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.
English: altered form of Langdon .
English: habitational name from Lavendon (Buckinghamshire), which is recorded as Laundone in 1232 and Lavenden alias Launden in 1639. The placename derives from the Old English personal name Lāfa (genitive Lāfan) + Old English denu ‘valley’.
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Lando, a short form of compound names based on the element land ‘land, territory’, via the oblique case, Landonis.
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