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Theresa DESROSIERS was born abt. 1917 in Ontario, Canada
Theresa DESROSIERS was the child of Andre DESROSIERS and Donalda Marie TRAHAN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Andre MOREAU dit DESROSIERS and Victoire-Marie PAUL HUS (maternal) Joseph TRAHAN and Hermine MARTINTheresa DESROSIERS died abt. 1991 in Ontario, Canada.
married Roger O'Connor
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1920 - July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada1921 - December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada1923 Accident
a newspaper story Father Gravelle wrote in 1964.
It is a remarkable story of a six-year old girl, Theresa Desrosiers, who lived on a family farm near Chiswick in 1923. She was picking flowers to take to her first communion when her father André accidentally hit her while mowing hay, and almost completely severed her left foot. Her father held the foot in place while Theresa screamed in pain. The nearest phone was in Alderdale, 6 km away, and Dr. Harcourt, the local doctor, was 16 km away in Powassan.
When Dr. Harcourt arrived three hours later, he immediately set about to remove the foot. Theresa pleaded for the doctor to 'wrap it up' and let it heal. 'Good Saint Anne will help me, and I can have my first communion,' she said. The doctor told her that too much time had already passed, there was no circulation to the foot and infection was going to set in, perhaps causing the loss of more of the leg.
Theresa's parents joined in the request to save the foot, so, against his...Read MORE...
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a newspaper story Father Gravelle wrote in 1964.
It is a remarkable story of a six-year old girl, Theresa Desrosiers, who lived on a family farm near Chiswick in 1923. She was picking flowers to take to her first communion when her father André accidentally hit her while mowing hay, and almost completely severed her left foot. Her father held the foot in place while Theresa screamed in pain. The nearest phone was in Alderdale, 6 km away, and Dr. Harcourt, the local doctor, was 16 km away in Powassan.
When Dr. Harcourt arrived three hours later, he immediately set about to remove the foot. Theresa pleaded for the doctor to 'wrap it up' and let it heal. 'Good Saint Anne will help me, and I can have my first communion,' she said. The doctor told her that too much time had already passed, there was no circulation to the foot and infection was going to set in, perhaps causing the loss of more of the leg.
Theresa's parents joined in the request to save the foot, so, against his...Read MORE...
www.pastforward.ca/ perspectives/ May_42001.htm
1926 - June 29 - Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada1926 - September 25 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada1930 - August 7 - R. B. Bennett becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1934 - The metal beverage can is invented (American Can Co., United States)1935 - October 23 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1936 - January 20 - Edward VIII becomes King of England1936 - December 11 - George VI becomes King of England 1940 - April - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA The microwave oven was invented accidentally in 1945 by Percy Spencer, a Raytheon engineer. While testing a magnetron, he noticed microwaves melted a candy bar in his pocket. Experimenting further, he discovered microwaves could cook food quickly. Raytheon patented the process, and by 1947, they built the first commercial microwave oven, called the 'Radarange.' Initially used in commercial settings, microwaves becomes affordable for home use by the 1960s and 1970s, revolutionizing cooking.1948 - November 15 - Louis St. Laurent becomes Prime Minister of Canada1952 - February 6 - Elizabeth II becomes Queen of England1957 - June 21 - John Diefenbaker becomes Prime Minister of Canada1963 - April 22 - Lester B. Pearson becomes Prime Minister of Canada1968 - April 20 - Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada The cell phone was invented by Martin Cooper of Motorola. On April 3, 1973, he made the first handheld mobile phone call with the Motorola DynaTAC. This device weighed 2.5 pounds and was 10 inches long, offering 30 minutes of talk time and requiring 10 hours to charge. The first commercial cell phone was released in 1983, revolutionizing communication and leading to the modern smartphones we use today.1979 - June 4 - Joe Clark becomes Prime Minister of Canada1980 - March 3 - Pierre Trudeau becomes Prime Minister of Canada
1981 - June 5 - First reported case of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)1984 - June 30 - John Turner becomes Prime Minister of Canada1984 - September 17 - Brian Mulroney becomes Prime Minister of Canada 1989 - The World Wide Web is invented at CERN (Tim Berners-Lee, UK)
Added: 4/26/2013 3:53:49 PM
- Updated: 3/1/2015 4:27:20 PM
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