Simon Toussaint GAUDET

Born

29 October 1806 , Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Died

16 June 1883 , Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada

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Joseph Louis GAUDET Marie Madeleine MELANSON

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Born: 29 October 1806 in Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Father: Joseph Louis GAUDET

Mother: Marie Madeleine MELANSON

Paternal grandparents: Joseph GAUDET , Anne-Gertrude LEBLANC

Maternal grandparents: Amand MELANSON , Marie Anne LEBLANC

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Simon Toussaint married Marie Perpetue BASTARACHE abt. 1832 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie Perpetue BASTARACHE was born 20 October 1809 in Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Simon Toussaint GAUDET died 16 June 1883 in Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Marie Perpetue BASTARACHE
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Pierre Volusien GAUDET

Born: 2 August 1833, Saint Marys Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died: 11 June 1911, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Married: Elisabeth Gertrude LEBLANC 1859 Place: Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada (Church Point) (Little Brook)

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Birth — 1806
29 October 1806
Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, 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

1833 Birth of Child
Pierre Volusien GAUDET was born 2 August 1833, Saint Marys Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

Simon Toussaint was 26 years old.

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 - 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.