When Maria Jane Barr was born on 15 April 1886, in Darling, Haldimand, Ontario, Canada, her father, David Barr, was 30 and her mother, Grace Margaret Khull, was 23. She married Alexander Sandy Murdoch Reid in 1909. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Darling, Lanark, Upper Canada, British North America in 1891 and Lanark, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. She died in 1971, at the age of 85, and was buried in Middleville, Lanark, Ontario, Canada.
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Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Born on May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets were the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy. The five girls were born two months prematuare and months later were taken from their parents by the Red Cross. In the 1940s they were returned to their family.
George A. Drew was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1943, they won the Ontario election.
Scottish (Glasgow) and northern Irish (Ulster): habitational name from any of various places in southwestern Scotland, in particular Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, named with Gaelic barr ‘height, hill’ or a Brittonic cognate of this.
English and Welsh: habitational name from Great Barr in Staffordshire. This is from Brittonic barro- ‘top, summit’, referring to Barr Beacon; there is evidence that this was known as la Bare in the 13th century.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Barre-en-Ouche in Eure, France, or perhaps from Barre-de-Semilly in Manche, France.
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