When Mabel Anderson was born on 9 May 1885, in Amherstburg, Essex, Ontario, Canada, her father, Pierre Hector Anderson, was 32 and her mother, Ada Brookman, was 30. She married Arthur Cyril Wilberforce Touchburn on 25 February 1913, in Fort Frances, Rainy River, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She died on 16 February 1950, in Fort Frances, Rainy River, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 64.
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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 from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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