When Mary Anna Mastin was born on 4 April 1891, in Kincardine, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, her father, Lewis Horne Mastin, was 52 and her mother, Mary Louisa Bennet, was 33.
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Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
Canada Act is passed. The United Kingdom transfers final legal powers over Canada. The country adopts its new constitution, which includes a charter of rights.
The current municipality was created in 1999 by the amalgamation of the Town of Kincardine, the Township of Kincardine, and the Township of Bruce.
English (Lincolnshire): variant of Maston , itself a variant of Marston . Compare Masten .
French (mainly northern), Flemish, and Walloon: occupational name for a household servant, from Old French mastin ‘watchdog, manservant’ (from Latin mansuetudinus ‘domestic’). The Old French word had the further sense of a bad-tempered dog, and was used as an adjective in the sense of ‘bad, cruel’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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