When Elizabeth Mary Beatrice Reid was born on 21 October 1887, in Dufferin, Ontario, Canada, her father, John Clifford Reid, was 46 and her mother, Sarah Maria Gillespie, was 39. She married Thomas Hugh Reid on 15 January 1918, in Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in East Garafraxa Township, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada in 1931 and Orangeville, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada in 1982. She died on 16 March 1965, in Dufferin, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 77, and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Amaranth Township, Dufferin, 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: variant of Reed , of which Reid is the common modern Scots spelling.
History: Samuel Chester Reid (1783–1861), the sea captain who designed the stars and stripes form of the present the American flag, was born at Norwich, CT. His father, Lt. John Reid, a former British naval officer of a distinguished Glasgow family, had resigned his commission and joined the cause of the American Revolution.
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