Josiah ASHLEY

Born

abt. 1830 , Upper Canada

Died

26 April 1876 , Amherst Island, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada

Josiah married Hannah GIBSON abt. 1858 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Hannah GIBSON was born abt. 1837 in Ireland. Hannah died 16 September 1876 in Amherst Island, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada.

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Josiah ASHLEY married

Hannah GIBSON
Marriage date: abt. 1858
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Children of Josiah ASHLEY and Hannah GIBSON

Bertha "Minnie" ASHLEY

Born: 14 February 1858, Amherst Island, Lennox and Addington County, Canada West
Died: 29 April 1913, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada

Married: Joseph BEAUBIEN 3 June 1879

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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 Birth of Child
Bertha "Minnie" ASHLEY was born 14 February 1858, Amherst Island, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, 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.