Thomas DURLAND

(b. 17 May 1786 , Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada d. abt. 1871 , Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Thomas DURLAND was born 17 May 1786 in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

Thomas DURLAND was the child of Daniel DURLAND and Sarah DEMOTT

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Thomas married Amelia CONGDON 18 August 1810 in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Amelia CONGDON was born abt. 1781 in Orange, New York, USA. Amelia died abt. 1849 in Roxbury, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada. Amelia was the child of Joseph CONGDON and Mary WELLS.

Thomas DURLAND died abt. 1871 in Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Thomas DURLAND married

Amelia CONGDON-- Date: 18 August 1810 Place: Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada
Amelia CONGDON was the child of Joseph CONGDON and Mary WELLS

Children of Thomas DURLAND and Amelia CONGDON:

Amelia DURLAND (b.abt. 1832, , Nova Scotia, Canada d. , )
m. Joseph LAYTE 1 July 1851

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1786 Birth
17 May 1786
Wilmot, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

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)

1810 Marriage / Partner
Thomas DURLAND and Amelia CONGDON 18 August 1810, Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

He was 24 years old.

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 - 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.