When George Albert Caverley was born on 14 January 1857, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Elijah Horton Caverly, was 32 and his mother, Susan Cummings, was 24. He married Annetta Wells on 19 March 1884, in Foxboro, Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Rawdon Township, Hastings, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Hastings, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He died on 16 May 1925, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 68.
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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 (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Calverley in Yorkshire, named with Old English calfra (genitive plural of calf ‘calf’) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Alternatively, in some instances the name may be a variant of the habitational name Calveley, from a place so called in Cheshire (with the same meaning as above), or from Calverleigh in Devon, meaning ‘the clearing of the bare wood’ (Old English calu ‘bare, bald’ + wudu ‘wood’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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