Robert DUNN

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29 January 1846 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

6 March 1902 , Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada

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Born: 29 January 1846 in Québec Province, Canada

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Robert married Janet SPECK 30 June 1869 in Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Janet SPECK was born 6 November 1845 in Lacolle, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle). Janet died abt. 1933 in Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada (St-Antoine-Abbé) (Starnesborough).

Robert DUNN died 6 March 1902 in Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Robert DUNN married

Janet SPECK
Marriage date: 30 June 1869
Marriage place: Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada

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Dorothy DUNN

Born: 24 November 1884, Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada
Died: abt. 1968,

Married: Robert-Frederick GAMBLE 3 January 1923 Place: Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada (St-Antoine-Abbé) (Starnesborough)

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Birth — 1846
29 January 1846
Québec Province, Canada

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

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 Marriage / Partner
Robert DUNN and Janet SPECK 30 June 1869, Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada (St-Antoine-Abbé) (Starnesborough)

He was 23 years old.

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)

1884 Birth of Child
Dorothy DUNN was born 24 November 1884, Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada (St-Antoine-Abbé) (Starnesborough)

Robert was 38 years old.

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

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England