Joseph DOUCET

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6 September 1808 , Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada

Died

26 December 1877 , Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada

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Born: 6 September 1808 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada

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Joseph married Sophie COMEAU . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Sophie COMEAU was born 12 May 1814 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada (Nepisiguit) (Nipisiguit). Sophie died abt. 1856 in New Brunswick, Canada.

Joseph DOUCET died 26 December 1877 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada .
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Sophie DOUCET

Born: 11 October 1855, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada
Died: 26 November 1935, Lameque, New Brunswick, Canada

Married: Philias DOIRON 16 August 1880

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Birth — 1808
6 September 1808
Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

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)

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.

1855 Birth of Child
Sophie DOUCET was born 11 October 1855, Caraquet, Gloucester, New Brunswick, Canada

Joseph was 47 years old.

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.