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Mellanby was born on August 22, 1934, in Hamilton, Ontario, but grew up in Essex County, Ontario, where his father, Edgar, worked as a newspaper editor for The Windsor Star. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After graduating from high school in Windsor, he attended Wayne State University in nearby Detroit, Michigan , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in ...
He represented Essex South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 to 1919 and from 1934 to 1937 as a Liberal member. He was born in Gosfield, Essex County, [1] the son of Philip Wigle, a United Empire Loyalist of Pennsylvania Dutch descent, [1] and Hannah Wright. [2] In 1900, he married Jennie Grainger.
He represented Essex South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1875 to 1882 and in the House of Commons of Canada from 1882 to 1887 as a Conservative member. He was born in Gosfield Township, Essex County, Canada West in 1845, the son of Solomon Wigle. He owned a general store at Leamington and served as reeve of Mersea from 1867 to ...
Alexander Cameron (June 22, 1827 – May 15, 1893), [1] known as the "Earl of Essex", was an Irish-born Canadian businessperson and lawyer who began the town of Essex and owned much of the land around Windsor, Ontario and Essex County in the late 19th century.
Essex County has one of Canada's longest growing seasons at 212 days per year. [13] Leamington, a town in Essex County, has also been known for its greenhouses. It now has the largest concentration of commercial greenhouses in all of North America, with nearly 2000 acres of greenhouse vegetable production in the general area. [14]
Frank Chauvin (1933–2015), former police detective, resigned from Order of Canada over abortion rights [1] Kenneth Church (1930–2020), jockey, Windsor / Essex County Sports Hall of Fame inductee; Stubby Clapp (born 1973), former MLB baseball player, current first base coach for the St. Louis Cardinals
Sum Ying Fung (née Eng, Chinese: 吴如英, 27 January 1899 – 6 December 2011), was a Chinese Canadian supercentenarian who was the oldest person in Canada in 2011. Sum Ying Eng was born in Wing On Village, Yanping, China in 1899. [35] In 1926, she married Chong Lim Fung, who had been working in Canada since 1911.
Essex is a town with a population of 21,216 in Essex County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, whose municipal borders extend to Lake Erie. Essex is also the name of the largest community within the municipality.