When Alva Saunders was born on 10 June 1870, in Richmond, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Jesse Saunders, was 44 and her mother, Adelaide Sollows, was 31. She married David S Haskill on 4 November 1899, in Port Maitland, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada. She lived in Ohio, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1871 and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1911. She died on 14 December 1944, in Port Maitland, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Port Maitland, Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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British Columbia joins the confederation.
The Silver Dart was the first recorded flight in Canada. It took off from Baddeck, Nova Scotia, on February 23, 1909, and was piloted by John Alexander Douglas McCurdy.
The Bluenose racing schooner was launched on March 26, 1921, in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. It was evident that the ship was nothing like other ships that had been launched.
English (Surrey and Kent): variant of Sander , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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