When Catherine Jane Pappin was born on 22 February 1885, her father, Peter Pappin, was 31 and her mother, Catherine Jane Lavalley, was 26. She lived in Renfrew, Ontario, Canada in 1901.
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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.
English (Cornwall): possibly French, from Occitan papon ‘ancestor’, or perhaps a variant of Papin, from French papin ‘gruel’, a suffixed derivative of paper ‘to chomp’.
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