When Amasa Garfield Dales was born on 22 October 1881, in Augusta Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, his father, William Dales, was 41 and his mother, Ann Chapman, was 39. He married Annie Grieve Brown on 29 March 1906, in Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Ontario, Canada for about 20 years and Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 11 March 1955, in Herrons Corners, Augusta Township, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 73, and was buried in Elizabethtown-Kitley, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
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Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
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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