Brief Life History of Mary Daisy
When Mary Daisy Race was born on 24 September 1907, in Glenella Rural Municipality, Manitoba, Canada, her father, John Thomas Race, was 32 and her mother, Emily Jane Welch, was 34. She married William Harold Jackway on 3 May 1927, in Fort Frances, Rainy River, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada in 1911. She died on 25 June 1993, in Fort Frances, Rainy River, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 85, and was buried in Pineridge Cemetery, Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls, Kenora, Ontario, Canada.
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- Daisy Race in household of John Race, "Canada Census, 1911"
- Web: Manitoba, Birth Index, 1866-1912
- Mary Daisy Race, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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World Events (5)
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 (of Norman origin): from the Old French personal name Race, Rasse (ancient Germanic Radizo, Razo, Rasso), a pet form of ancient Germanic names beginning with the element rad ‘counsel’.
English: nickname from Old French ras ‘clean shaven’.
Americanized form of German Räss (see Rase 2) and perhaps also of Rase 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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