When Sarah Jane LaSalle was born on 17 February 1873, in Russell, Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada, her father, Félix Lasalle, was 41 and her mother, Francis Roselle Tracess Sarrazin or Sarasan, was 40.
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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.
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.
Some characteristic forenames: French Andre, Michel, Emile, Gaston, Gisele, Jean-Louis, Normand.
French:
topographic name or a metonymic occupational name for someone who lived or worked at a manor house, from Old French sale ‘large room, hall’, with the definite article la.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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