Thomas ARMSTRONG

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abt. 1830 , March, Carleton, Upper Canada

Died

21 November 1880 , March, Carleton, Ontario, Canada

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John ARMSTRONG Rebecca GLEASON

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Born: abt. 1830 in March, Carleton, Upper Canada

Father: John ARMSTRONG

Mother: Rebecca GLEASON

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Thomas married Jane BEATTY 9 January 1862 in Ottawa, Canada West . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jane BEATTY was born abt. 1841 in Nepean, Ontario, Canada. Jane died 27 September 1916 Jane was the child of Thomas Daniel BEATTY and Eliza BELL.

Thomas ARMSTRONG died 21 November 1880 in March, Carleton, Ontario, Canada.
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Jane BEATTY
Marriage date: 9 January 1862
Marriage place: Ottawa, Canada West
Jane BEATTY was the child of Thomas Daniel BEATTY and Eliza BELL

Children of Thomas ARMSTRONG and Jane BEATTY

John Alexander ARMSTRONG

Born: 26 November 1862, South March, Canada West
Died: 2 November 1928, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Married: Bertha Kathleen ROSS 23 July 1920 Place: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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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 Marriage / Partner
Thomas ARMSTRONG and Jane BEATTY 9 January 1862, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

1862 Birth of Child
John Alexander ARMSTRONG was born 26 November 1862, South March, Ontario, Canada

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.