Margaret Ann FLEMING

Born

21 March 1837 , Nova Scotia, Canada

Died

26 March 1894 , Brass Hill, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Edward FLEMING Rebecca GOULDEN

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Born: 21 March 1837 in Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Edward FLEMING

Mother: Rebecca GOULDEN

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Margaret Ann married Edward Harvey CHRISTIE 23 December 1852 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Edward Harvey CHRISTIE was born 30 May 1828 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. Edward Harvey died 6 December 1902 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada. Edward Harvey was the child of Jacob CHRISTIE and Martha A NICKERSON.

Margaret Ann FLEMING died 26 March 1894 in Brass Hill, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Margaret Ann FLEMING married

Edward Harvey CHRISTIE
Marriage date: 23 December 1852
Marriage place: Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
Edward Harvey CHRISTIE was the child of Jacob CHRISTIE and Martha A NICKERSON

Children of Edward Harvey CHRISTIE and Margaret Ann FLEMING

Florence Effie Jeanette CHRISTIE

Born: 26 August 1873, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 26 March 1899, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

Married: Georg Richard CLAESSON 19 November 1895

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Birth — 1837
21 March 1837
Nova Scotia, Canada

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.

1852 Marriage / Partner
Margaret Ann FLEMING and Edward Harvey CHRISTIE 23 December 1852, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

She was 15 years old.

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.

1873 Birth of Child
Florence Effie Jeanette CHRISTIE was born 26 August 1873, Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada

Margaret Ann was 36 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)

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