Brief Life History of Mary Anna
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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- Mary Anna Mastin, "Ontario Births, 1869-1911"
- Mary Anna Mastin, "Ontario, Births and Baptisms, 1779-1899"
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World Events (3)
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
1982
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.
1999
The current municipality was created in 1999 by the amalgamation of the Town of Kincardine, the Township of Kincardine, and the Township of Bruce.
Name Meaning
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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