When Alice May Lawson was born on 2 December 1884, in York Township, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, her father, William Lawson Jr., was 36 and her mother, Alice Brunskill, was 31. She married Arthur Ferrier Valens on 27 June 1912, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1912 and Brandon, Manitoba, Canada in 1926. She died on 19 April 1972, in Manitoba, Canada, at the age of 87, and was buried in Brandon Municipal Cemetery, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.
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In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
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.
Scottish and northern English: patronymic ‘son of Lawrence’; see Law 1. It is also found in Ireland since the 17th century.
Americanized form of Swedish Larsson and Danish, Norwegian or North German Larsen .
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