Brief Life History of Crawford
When Crawford Gordon Sr was born on 12 June 1883, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, his father, William Verner Gordon, was 35 and his mother, Jean Crawford, was 39. He married Ethel Flora Fortune on 8 October 1913, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1916. He died on 18 July 1957, in Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada, at the age of 74, and was buried in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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- Crawford Gordon, "Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1916"
- Crawford Gordon, "Find A Grave Index"
- Crawford Gordon in entry for Gordon, "Canada, Ontario, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826-1989"
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World Events (5)
1886 · First Workmen's Comp Act
In 1886, Ontario passed its first Workmen's Compensation Act. This was in response to the number of railway workers that were being injured.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
1934 · Dionne Quintuplets Born
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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