When William James Lawless was born on 14 February 1922, in South Nelson, Miramichi, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, William Alexander Lawless, was 23 and his mother, Marie Louise Josephine Godin, was 18. He married Gwendolyn Louise Phalen on 15 February 1947, in Springhill, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada. He lived in Five Islands, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1931. He died on 27 April 1987, in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 65.
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August 20, 1937, the Miramichi lumber strike took place. Over 1,500 millworkers and longshoremen struck 14 lumber firms for wage increases.
On April 16, 1945, the HMCS Esquimalt was torpedoed by German U-Boats. Thirty-nine men died, some due to the attack others to exposure to cold. Those that survived were rescued by the Sarnia.
In 1955, New Brunswick broke the record with a freezing temperature of -47.2° C, in Sisson Dam
Scottish, Irish, and English: nickname from Middle English laweles, laghles ‘lawless, uncontrolled by the law’, applied either to someone who was undisciplined or to an outlaw (i.e. one from whom the protection of the law had been withdrawn).
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