Cajetan SAULNIER

Born

abt. 1795 , Meteghan, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died

9 November 1876 , Meteghan, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Gaetan Charles SAULNIER Marie BOUDREAU

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Born: abt. 1795 in Meteghan, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Gaetan Charles SAULNIER

Mother: Marie BOUDREAU

Paternal grandparents: Rene Poncy SAULNIER , Marie Madeleine MAILLET

Maternal grandparents: Claude BOUDREAU , Judith LANDRY

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Cajetan married Gertrude BASTARACHE abt. 1816 in Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Gertrude BASTARACHE was born 15 April 1796 in Baie Ste Marie, Digby Co, Nova Scotia, Canada. Gertrude died abt. 1840 in Baie Ste Marie, Digby Co, Nova Scotia, Canada. Gertrude was the child of Joseph Tranquille BASTARACHE and Cecile MAILLET.

Cajetan SAULNIER died 9 November 1876 in Meteghan, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Cajetan SAULNIER married

Gertrude BASTARACHE
Marriage date: abt. 1816
Marriage place: , Nova Scotia, Canada
Gertrude BASTARACHE was the child of Joseph Tranquille BASTARACHE and Cecile MAILLET

Children of Cajetan SAULNIER and Gertrude BASTARACHE

Catherine Chantal SAULNIER

Born: 16 September 1817, Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Urbain Fulgence COMEAU 1833

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1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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

1817 Birth of Child
Catherine Chantal SAULNIER was born 16 September 1817, Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

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.

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.