When John Reid McAllister was born on 3 October 1909, his father, Hugh Henry McAllister, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Kilpatrick Durnin, was 24. He had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Inez Mae Roulston. He died on 4 July 1992, in London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America, at the age of 82, and was buried in Middlesex, 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.
Scottish and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Alasdair ‘son of Alasdair’, the Gaelic form of the personal name Alexander .
History: MacAlister is the name of a Scottish Highland clan claiming descent from Alasdair Mòr Mac Dòmhnaill, a younger son of Domhnall mac Raghnaill, founder of Clan Donald (see McDonald ).
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