Annabelle SMITH

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22 October 1832 , New Carlisle, Lower Canada

Died

28 December 1870 , Hope Town, Québec, Canada

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Born: 22 October 1832 in New Carlisle, Lower Canada

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Annabelle married Richard-Wolfe FORBES abt. 1849 in New Carlisle, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Richard-Wolfe FORBES was born abt. 1824 in Port-Daniel, Québec, Canada. Richard-Wolfe died 5 June 1885 in Bruce, Ontario, Canada.

Annabelle SMITH died 28 December 1870 in Hope Town, Québec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Richard-Wolfe FORBES
Marriage date: abt. 1849
Marriage place: New Carlisle, Canada East

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Children of Richard-Wolfe FORBES and Annabelle SMITH

Robert-Wallace FORBES

Born: 16 September 1862, Bonaventure, Canada East
Died: 6 July 1928, Adamsville, Bruce, Ontario, Canada

Married: Agnes Beggs Hamilton WILSON 16 February 1887 Place: , Ontario, Canada

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Birth — 1832
22 October 1832
New Carlisle, Lower Canada

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

1862 Birth of Child
Robert-Wallace FORBES was born 16 September 1862, Bonaventure, Québec, Canada (Saint-Bonaventure)

Annabelle was 29 years old.

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.