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  • May 17, 1794

    Anna Jameson, who chronicled her 8-month stay in Canada in Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838), was born at Dublin, Ire.

  • May 17, 1831

    Robert Machray, first Primate of All Canada, was born at Aberdeen, Scot.

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