William CAINE

Born

abt. 1847 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

15 June 1893 , Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Born: abt. 1847 in Québec Province, Canada

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William married Elizabeth THORNTON abt. 1869 in Montréal, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Elizabeth THORNTON was born abt. 1849 in Québec Province, Canada.

William CAINE died 15 June 1893 in Montréal, Québec, Canada .
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of William CAINE

William CAINE married

Elizabeth THORNTON
Marriage date: abt. 1869
Marriage place: Montréal, Québec, Canada
Source: ancestry.com

Marriage notes:

Name: William Caine

Marriage Year: 1869

Marriage Place: Montreal, Québec (Quebec), Canada

Spouse:

Elizabeth Thornton

Denomination: Anglican

Source: Centre d'archives de Montréal, CE601,S84

Page: 16V

Montreal, Canada, non-Catholic Marriage Index, 1766-1899

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of William CAINE and Elizabeth THORNTON

Julie-Elisabeth-Ida CAINE

Born: 1 November 1870, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Died: 5 November 1956, Montréal, Québec, Canada

Married: Joseph-Henri BEAUDRY 5 September 1893 Place: Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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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.

1870 Birth of Child
Julie-Elisabeth-Ida CAINE was born 1 November 1870, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

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