When Myrtle Helen Shook was born on 27 June 1881, in Pontiac, Oakland, Michigan, United States, her father, Grove H. Shook, was 20 and her mother, Sarah Irene North, was 20. She married Charles Staddon on 6 May 1899, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Essex, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died on 26 December 1974, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 93.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Americanized form of German Schuck or Schuch .
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