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Personal data Gordon Wayland Blackstock 

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Gordon Wayland Blackstock

John Edward Blackstock
1850-1914
Theresa May McIntyre
1863-1887
Hirum Charles Hilton
± 1850-1921
Nancy White Linn
1849-1938

Gordon Wayland Blackstock
1915-1955


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    Sources

    1. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=108831291&pid=13296
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    2. Alberta, Canada, Deaths Index, 1870-1966, Ancestry.com, Provincial Archives of Alberta; Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Death Indexes / Ancestry.com
    3. Web: Alberta, Index to Cemeteries, 1823-2013, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    4. Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday August 31, 1915

    • The temperature on August 31, 1915 was between 8.1 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
      • January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
      • January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
      • March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
      • May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
      • August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
      • August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.

    Day of death November 15, 1955

    • The temperature on November 15, 1955 was between 1.4 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1955: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 10.7 million citizens.
      • April 12 » The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
      • May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
      • May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
      • June 16 » In a futile effort to topple Argentine President Juan Perón, rogue aircraft pilots of the Argentine Navy drop several bombs upon an unarmed crowd demonstrating in favor of Perón in Buenos Aires, killing 364 and injuring at least 800. At the same time on the ground, some soldiers attempt to stage a coup but are suppressed by loyal forces.
      • September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
      • December 8 » The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe.
    

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    Source: Wikipedia


    About the surname Blackstock


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    Brian Kennedy, "Kennedy Family Tree", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/kennedy-family-tree/P13296.php : accessed April 30, 2025), "Gordon Wayland Blackstock (1915-1955)".