Brief Life History of Thomas Napoléon
Thomas Napoléon Legros was born on 15 January 1895, in Pinewood, Rainy River, Ontario, Canada as the son of Joseph Legros and Henriette Martin. He married Beatrice Marie Lucie Sanche on 17 May 1921. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 17 April 1967, in Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 72, and was buried in Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
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- Thomas Legros in household of Leo Decaire, "Canada Census, 1911"
- Thomas Napoléon Legros, "Canada, Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- Thomas N Legros, "Find A Grave Index"
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1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
1934 · Dionne Quintuplets Born
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.
1943 · Conservative Party Wins Ontario Election
George A. Drew was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1943, they won the Ontario election.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Emile, Aime, Dominique, Dreux, Franck, Georges, Jacques, Laurent, Marcel, Martial, Mercel, Monique.
French: nickname for a large or fat man, a variant of Gros ‘big, fat’ (and, in North America, an altered form of this), with fused masculine definite article le. Compare Lagrow , Legro , and Legrow .
History: Pierre Legros dit Saint-Pierre from Roulans in Doubs, married Marie-Françoise Foisy in Verchères, QC, in 1761. His descendants also bear the former secondary surname or dit (‘also called’) name St. Pierre .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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