When Rebecca Clarke Foster was born on 30 August 1903, in Lanark Highlands Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Foster, was 56 and her mother, Grace Scoular, was 33. She married Harold Adam Munro on 23 June 1926, in Carleton Place, Lanark, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Lanark, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Darling Township, Lanark, Ontario, Canada in 1931. She died on 10 August 2003, in Almonte, Lanark, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 99, and was buried in Clayton United Church Cemetery, Clayton, Lanark, Ontario, Canada.
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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.
George A. Drew was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1943, they won the Ontario election.
English: variant of Forster ‘worker in a forest’.
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English foster ‘foster parent’ (Old English fōstre, a derivative of fōstrian ‘to nourish or rear’). But other explanations are equally or more likely.
English: from Old French forcetier ‘maker of scissors’; see Forster 2.
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