When Laura Winifred Foster was born on 10 January 1888, in Port Lorne, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Charles Patterson Foster, was 33 and her mother, Ada Elizabeth Foster, was 33. She married Frederick Seymour Milner on 17 September 1913, in Bridgetown, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901. She died on 27 April 1924, in Port Lorne, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 36.
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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.
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
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