Basile CHIASSON

(b. 29 September 1809 , Chéticamp, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 4 March 1886 , Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Basile CHIASSON was born 29 September 1809 in Chéticamp, Nova Scotia, Canada

Basile CHIASSON was the child of ? and ?

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Basile married Marie Marguerite DOUCET abt. 1827 in Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie Marguerite DOUCET was born abt. 1802 in Chéticamp, Nova Scotia, Canada (Cheticamp). Marie Marguerite died abt. 1881 in Chéticamp, Nova Scotia, Canada (Cheticamp).

Basile CHIASSON died 4 March 1886 in Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Basile CHIASSON married

Marie Marguerite DOUCET-- Date: abt. 1827 Place: , Nova Scotia, Canada

Children of Basile CHIASSON and Marie Marguerite DOUCET:

Domithilde CHIASSON (b.22 January 1841, Ilse de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada d. 15 February 1899, Grand-Etang, Inverness, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Simon DOUCETTE 8 January 1857 in Chéticamp, Nova Scotia, Canada (Cheticamp)

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1809 Birth
29 September 1809
Chéticamp, Nova Scotia, Canada

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

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 Birth of Child
Domithilde CHIASSON was born 22 January 1841, Ilse de la Madeleine, Quebec, Canada

Basile was 31 years old.

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.

1857 Marriage of Child
Domithilde CHIASSON married 8 January 1857, Chéticamp, Nova Scotia, Canada (Cheticamp) to Simon DOUCETTE

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.