When Archie Edwin Houston was born on 16 October 1888, in Ramsay Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, his father, Andrew Houston, was 36 and his mother, Hannah Galbraith, was 35. He married Ella Madeline Piper on 24 June 1913, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Saskatchewan, Canada in 1916 and Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada for about 5 years. He died in 1976, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, at the age of 88, and was buried in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 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: habitational name from the barony of Houston (Renfrewshire), from the genitive case of the personal name Hugh + Middle English, Older Scots ton ‘town, village, settlement’ (Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’). The landlord in question was a certain Hugo de Paduinan, who held the place c. 1160. The Scottish surname is also common in Ulster.
Irish: variant of McCutcheon from Mac Uisdein or Mac Uistein.
History: In 1836 the newly founded city of Houston, TX, was named in honor of Sam Houston (1793–1863), soldier and statesman. As commander in chief of the Texan army he achieved Texas independence from Mexico by routing the army of the Mexican general Santa Anna. His ancestors were Ulster Scots who had emigrated to Philadelphia, PA, in the 18th century.
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