Brief Life History of Elda M
When Elda M Colbeck was born on 22 September 1910, in East Luther Township, Dufferin, Ontario, Canada, her father, Thomas McKinley Colbeck, was 26 and her mother, Mabel Anne Hammond, was 25. She married Elmer Arnold Leslie Farrow on 31 July 1930, in Ontario, Canada. She lived in Dufferin, Ontario, Canada in 1911.
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- Elda M Colbeck in household of Thomas Colbeck, "Canada Census, 1911"
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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.
1955 · General Motors Auto Workers Strike
From 1955-1956, around 17,000 workers for General Motors went on strike. They wanted a pay raise, more secure working conditions, and a health plan half paid by General Motors. The strike lasted 148 days.
Name Meaning
English (northern): from Middle English cold, cald ‘cold’ (Old English cald, Old Norse kaldr) + be(c)k ‘stream’ (Old Norse bekkr). The name may be topographic, denoting someone who lived ‘(by the) cold stream’, or, more probably, a habitational name from a place so named, such as Caldbeck (Cumbria) or Coldbeck (Westmorland).
Americanized form of German Kolbeck .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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