When John Arthur Osker Scriver was born on 26 November 1895, in Orangeville, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada, his father, Jacob Albert Scriver, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Whaley, was 25. He married Catharine Isabella Convery on 24 September 1915, in Frontenac, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years.
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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.
April 15, 1953 Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto was created January 1, 1998 amalgamated into City of Toronto
Americanized form of Dutch Schryver , Schrijver ‘the scribe’, from Middle Dutch scrivere ‘scribe, clerk’. Compare English Scriven , German Schreiber .
English: variant of Scrivener . This form of the surname is now rare in Britain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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