Josiah CASS

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abt. 1789 , Cape Cove, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada

Died

6 April 1871 , Cape Cove, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada

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Josiah CASS Margaret FERGUSON

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Born: abt. 1789 in Cape Cove, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada

Father: Josiah CASS

Mother: Margaret FERGUSON

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Josiah married Desire LUCAS abt. 1823 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Desire LUCAS was born June 1795 in Cape Cove, Percé, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada. Desire died 9 November 1857 in Cape Cove, Percé, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada. Desire was the child of Fitz Hugh LUCAS and Mary HAYDEN.

Josiah CASS died 6 April 1871 in Cape Cove, Gaspe, Quebec, Canada.
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Desire LUCAS
Marriage date: abt. 1823
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Desire LUCAS was the child of Fitz Hugh LUCAS and Mary HAYDEN

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Hugh CASS

Born: 27 January 1833, Cape Cove, Percé, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada
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Married: Sarah-Adelaide EDEN 27 December 1859 Place: Gaspé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Albert-de-Gaspe)

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1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

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

1833 Birth of Child
Hugh CASS was born 27 January 1833, Cape Cove, Percé, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada

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.

1857 Death of Spouse/Partner
Desire LUCAS died 9 November 1857, Cape Cove, Percé, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1859 Marriage of Child
Hugh CASS married 27 December 1859, Gaspé, Québec, Canada (Saint-Albert-de-Gaspe) to Sarah-Adelaide EDEN

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.