Anselme DUGAS

Born

10 April 1799 , Cap-Chat, Lower Canada

Died

12 May 1875 , Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Gaspé, Québec, Canada

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Born: 10 April 1799 in Cap-Chat, Lower Canada

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Anselme married Suzanne VALLEE 25 August 1823 in Québec Province, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Suzanne VALLEE was born abt. 1809 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Suzanne died 22 August 1894 in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Gaspé, Québec, Canada.

Anselme DUGAS died 12 May 1875 in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Gaspé, 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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Anselme DUGAS married

Suzanne VALLEE
Marriage date: 25 August 1823
Marriage place: , Québec Province, Canada

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Neree DUGAS

Born: 18 March 1850, Sainte Anne des monts, Gaspe-Ouest, La Côte-de-Gaspé, Quebec, Canada
Died: 7 March 1922, Riviere-Pentecote, Saguenay, Le Fjord-du-Saguenay, Quebec, Canada

Married: Alexandrine LABRIE 20 February 1870

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Birth — 1799
10 April 1799
Cap-Chat, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1823 Marriage / Partner
Anselme DUGAS and Suzanne VALLEE 25 August 1823, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

He was 24 years old.

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

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)

1850 Birth of Child
Neree DUGAS was born 18 March 1850, Sainte Anne des monts, Gaspe-Ouest, La Côte-de-Gaspé, Quebec, Canada

Anselme was 50 years old.

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.