When George Thomas Cummings was born in 1874, in Rawdon Township, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, his father, George Cummings, was 40 and his mother, Rosana McGowan, was 33. He lived in Hastings, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 9 October 1939, in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 65, and was buried in Stirling Cemetery, Stirling, Hastings, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Scottish and English (of Norman origin): variant of Cumming , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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