When William Chapman Dales was born on 1 June 1906, in Augusta Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, Chapman Leopold Dales, was 25 and his mother, Margaret Jemina Smith, was 30. He lived in Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 10 October 1980, in Melville, Cana No. 214, Saskatchewan, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Elizabethtown-Kitley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
George A. Drew was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1943, they won the Ontario election.
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.
English (Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire): variant of Dale , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname for a needy person, from Hebrew dalus ‘poverty’.
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