Charles-Francois-Xavier FILLION

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2 November 1828 , Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

Died

7 November 1899 , Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Mégantic, Quebec, Canada

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Born: 2 November 1828 in Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

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Charles-Francois-Xavier married Marie-Adele SAVOIE 23 February 1857 in Saint-Sylvestre, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Adele SAVOIE was born 10 July 1833 in Saint-Sylvestre, Québec, Canada (East). Marie-Adele died 25 December 1915 in Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Mégantic, Quebec, Canada.

Charles-Francois-Xavier FILLION died 7 November 1899 in Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Mégantic, Quebec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
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Charles-Francois-Xavier FILLION married

Marie-Adele SAVOIE
Marriage date: 23 February 1857
Marriage place: Saint-Sylvestre, Canada East

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Thomas FILLION

Born: 2 October, 1865, Thetford Mines, Canada East
Died: 25 May 1937, Ville-Marie, Témiscamingue, Quebec, Canada

Married: Celina Marie MARTIN 23 August 1889 Place: Laconia, New Hampshire, USA (Lakeport) (Weirs Beach) (The Weirs)

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Birth — 1828
2 November 1828
Sainte-Marie, Lower Canada

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.

1857 Marriage / Partner
Charles-Francois-Xavier FILLION and Marie-Adele SAVOIE 23 February 1857, Saint-Sylvestre, Québec, Canada (East)

He was 28 years old.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1865 Birth of Child
Thomas FILLION was born 2 October, 1865, Thetford Mines, Québec, Canada (Saint-Alphonse-de-Thetford) (Kingsville)

Charles-Francois-Xavier was 36 years old.

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 - 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)

1889 Marriage of Child
Thomas FILLION married 23 August 1889, Laconia, New Hampshire, USA (Lakeport) (Weirs Beach) (The Weirs) to Celina Marie MARTIN

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

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)