When Norman Edward Wessels was born on 5 January 1906, in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, his father, Walter Walton Wessels, was 38 and his mother, Almeda Marie Kimmerly, was 36. He married Julia Frances Hoskins about 1928, in Geneva, Ontario, New York, United States. He lived in Hastings, Percy Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada in 1911. He died on 31 October 1995, in Belleville, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 89, and was buried in Belleville Cemetery, Belleville, Hastings, 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.
Dutch and North German: patronymic from the personal name Wessel 1. This surname is also established in South Africa.
History: One of the most prominent fur traders in New Netherland (now NY) in the 1660s was Dirck Wessels(e) (1637–1717), who probably came to New Netherland before 1650 with his father, Wessel Wesselse, a West India Company employee. He also bore the surname Ten Broeck .
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