When Frederick Newton Gisborne Crockett was born on 19 March 1881, in Wine Harbour, St. Mary's, Guysborough, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Daniel William Crockett, was 45 and his mother, Mary Jane Rood, was 35. He married Annabelle Holmes on 9 February 1916, in Springville, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Pictou, Nova Scotia, British North America for about 15 years and Westville, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1931. He died on 27 January 1958, in Hopewell, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 76, and was buried in Hopewell, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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The Silver Dart was the first recorded flight in Canada. It took off from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, on February 23, 1909, and was piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.
The Bluenose racing schooner was launched on March 26, 1921, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It was evident that the ship was nothing like other ships that had been launched.
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.
English (Staffordshire) and Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname for someone who affected a particular hairstyle, from Anglo-Norman French croket ‘ornamental curl or roll of hair’ (Old Norman French croquet, a diminutive of croque ‘curl, hook’).
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