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flag female ancestor  Elizabeth  WATERS

Born
abt. 1839 ,  Rideau Lakes, Leeds and Grenville, Upper Canada
Died
24 March 1901 ,  Morton, Rideau Lakes, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada
Elizabeth  married  Andrew GRAY abt. 1863 .  The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Andrew GRAY  was born 30 September 1837 in Upper Canada.  Andrew died 19 March 1920 in Rideau Lakes, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.  Andrew was the child of Francis GRAY and Amelia E EARL .
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Patrick WATERS
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Margaret UNKNOWN

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Elizabeth  married  Andrew GRAY abt. 1863 .  The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Andrew GRAY  was born 30 September 1837 in Upper Canada.  Andrew died 19 March 1920 in Rideau Lakes, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.  Andrew was the child of Francis GRAY and Amelia E EARL.
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Elizabeth WATERS married flag male ancestor Andrew GRAY
Marriage date: abt. 1863
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Andrew GRAY was the child of Francis GRAY and Amelia E EARL

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News1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States
News1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada
Invention 1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
Invention 1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)
Invention 1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)
News1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.
News1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.
Invention 1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)
News1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.
Invention 1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser
Invention 1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)
News1867 - 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.
Prime Minister of Canada1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Invention 1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.
Prime Minister of Canada1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Invention 1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
Invention 1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.
Prime Minister of Canada1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Invention 1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)
Invention 1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)
News1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)
News1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
Invention 1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)
Invention 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
Prime Minister of Canada1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Prime Minister of Canada1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada
Invention 1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)
DeathDeath — 1901
24 March 1901
Morton, Rideau Lakes, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada
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