Pierre Gregoire LEBRETON

Born

29 June 1825 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

abt. 1906 , Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste LEBRETON Marie Anne DRYSDALE (DRESDELL)

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Born: 29 June 1825 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste LEBRETON

Mother: Marie Anne DRYSDALE (DRESDELL)

Paternal grandparents: François-Rene ROBERT dit LEBRETON , Marie-Thérèse BOISSEL

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Pierre Gregoire married Marie Anne SONIER 26 September 1848 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie Anne SONIER was born 9 January 1827 in New Brunswick, Canada. Marie Anne died 22 September 1898 in New Brunswick, Canada.

Pierre Gregoire LEBRETON died abt. 1906 in Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada .
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Pierre Gregoire LEBRETON married

Marie Anne SONIER
Marriage date: 26 September 1848
Marriage place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Children of Pierre Gregoire LEBRETON and Marie Anne SONIER

Marie Eloise Elizabeth LEBRETON

Born: 24 April 1851, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 6 March 1928, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Anastase BASQUE (LEBASQUE) 8 January 1872 Place: Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Esther LEBRETON

Born: 8 April 1869, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 12 November 1940, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Jean THOMAS 23 April 1894 Place: Saint-Isidore, New Brunswick, Canada

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Birth — 1825
29 June 1825
Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada

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1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1848 Marriage / Partner
Pierre Gregoire LEBRETON and Marie Anne SONIER 26 September 1848, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

He was 23 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1851 Birth of Child
Marie Eloise Elizabeth LEBRETON was born 24 April 1851, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Pierre Gregoire was 25 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1869 Birth of Child
Esther LEBRETON was born 8 April 1869, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila)

Pierre Gregoire was 43 years old.

1872 Marriage of Child
Marie Eloise Elizabeth LEBRETON married 8 January 1872, Tracadie, New Brunswick, Canada (Tracadie-Sheila) to Anastase BASQUE (LEBASQUE)

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada