101 - Agnes Christensen - Winnipeg MB
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PeterNoG
N 49° 54.698 W 097° 07.129
14U E 635061 N 5530502
This Headstone of a Centenarian is in Section 4 at Elmwood Cemetery, 88 Hespeler Avenue in the West Elmwood area of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Waymark Code: WMTG32
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date Posted: 11/19/2016
Views: 4
Agnes Christensen was born in 1888 and died in 1989.
Some things that occurred during her lifetime:
1888 Stanley Park in Vancouver is officially opened by mayor David Oppenheimer
1898 The Yukon became a separate territory
1908 Anne of Green Gables is first published
1918 The Spanish Flu kills 50,000 in Canada
1928 Jean Lussier goes over Niagara Falls in a rubber ball and survives.
1938 Superman first appears in Action #1
1948 The Dominion of Newfoundland votes 52% to 48% to join the foreign nation of Canada in a referendum.
1958 The Avro Arrow flies for the first time
1968 The laws creating Canada's Medicare system come into effect
1978 41 are killed when a bus plunges into a lake near Eastman, Quebec.
1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes the leading scorer in the history of the National Hockey League.
Location of Headstone: Elmwood Cemetery
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