Editing Toe Blake (section)

==Early life==
Blake was one of 13 children to Wilmer and Arzélie Blake (11 survived childhood).<ref>{{harvnb|Logothetis|2020|p=10}}</ref> Wilmer (born 1874) was originally from [[Massachusetts]] and had moved to Canada around 1896, and was of English and Irish ancestry.<ref>{{harvnb|Logothetis|2020|p=13}}</ref> Arzélie was born in [[Buckingham, Quebec]] in 1877; her family, the Filions, had arrived in Quebec in the 17th century.<ref>{{harvnb|Logothetis|2020|p=14}}</ref> Wilmer and Arzélie married in 1898, and shortly after moved to [[Sudbury, Ontario]] for work.<ref>{{harvnb|Logothetis|2020|p=11}}</ref> Soon after Blake's birth the family moved to [[Nickel Centre|Coniston]], as the mine Wilmer had been working at was slowly closing.<ref>{{harvnb|Logothetis|2020|p=12}}</ref>