Jane WHITTEN

(b. abt. 1835 , Upper Canada d. 15 September 1873 , Darling, Lanark, Ontario, Canada )

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Jane WHITTEN was born abt. 1835 in Upper Canada

Jane WHITTEN was the child of ? and ?

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Jane married John MOFFAT 2 September 1851 in Bathurst, Lanark, Canada West* . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
John MOFFAT was born 18 December 1827 in Scotland (United Kingdom). John died 14 April 1909 in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada.

Jane WHITTEN died 15 September 1873 in Darling, Lanark, Ontario, Canada.
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Jane WHITTEN married

John MOFFAT-- Date: 2 September 1851 Place: Bathurst, Lanark, Canada West*

Children of John MOFFAT and Jane WHITTEN:

Ellen Elmyre MOFFAT (b.abt. 1855, Lanark, Lanark, Canada West d. 12 January 1899, Darling, Lanark, Ontario, Canada)
m. Thomas ELLIOTT 14 April 1876

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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)

1851 Marriage / Partner
Jane WHITTEN and John MOFFAT 2 September 1851, Bathurst, Lanark, Ontario, Canada*

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

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.