Brief Life History of Donald Bedford
When Donald Bedford Chase was born on 20 April 1896, in Port Williams, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, Bedford Chase, was 48 and his mother, Sarah Elizabeth Cogswell, was 43. He married Marguerite Alice Bancroft on 17 June 1924, in Lawrencetown, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He died in 1976, in Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 80, and was buried in Wolfville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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- Donald Chase in household of Bedford Chase, "Canada Census, 1911"
- Bedford Donald Chase, "Nova Scotia Delayed Births, 1837-1904"
- Donald Bedford Chase, "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1907-1932"
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World Events (5)
1909 · First Canadian Flight
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.
1921 · Racing Schooner Launched
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.
1945 · HMCS Esquimalt Torpedoed
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.
Name Meaning
English (southern): metonymic occupational name for a huntsman, or perhaps a nickname for an exceptionally skilled huntsman, from Middle English chase ‘hunt’ (Old French chasse, from chasser ‘to hunt’, Latin captare).
History: Thomas Chase came to MA from Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, in the 1640s, and had many prominent descendants. Samuel Chase, born in Somerset County, MD, in 1741, was one of the first members of the US Supreme Court; Philander Chase, born in Cornish, NH, in 1741 was a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and his nephew Salmon Portland Chase (1808–73), also born in Cornish, was governor of OH, a US senator, and secretary of the US Treasury during the Civil War.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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