Margaret YOUNG

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15 June 1833 , Ramsay, Lanark, Upper Canada

Died

6 November 1870 , Ramsay, Lanark, Ontario, Canada

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Robert YOUNG Annie MASON

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Born: 15 June 1833 in Ramsay, Lanark, Upper Canada

Father: Robert YOUNG

Mother: Annie MASON

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Margaret married John NAISMITH 19 January 1858 in Ramsay, Lanark, Ontario, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
John NAISMITH was born 7 January 1833 in Scotland (United Kingdom). John died 19 October 1870 in Ramsay, Lanark, Ontario, Canada.

Margaret YOUNG died 6 November 1870 in Ramsay, Lanark, Ontario, Canada.
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John NAISMITH
Marriage date: 19 January 1858
Marriage place: Ramsay, Lanark, Ontario, Canada

Children of John NAISMITH and Margaret YOUNG

James NAISMITH

Born: 6 November 1861, Almonte, Canada West
Died: 28 November 1939, Lawrence, Kansas, USA

Married: Maude Evelyn SHERMAN 20 June 1894 Place: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA (Indian Orchard)

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Birth — 1833
15 June 1833
Ramsay, Lanark, Upper 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 Marriage / Partner
Margaret YOUNG and John NAISMITH 19 January 1858, Ramsay, Lanark, Ontario, Canada

She was 24 years old.

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

1861 Birth of Child
James NAISMITH was born 6 November 1861, Almonte, Ontario, Canada

Margaret was 28 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.