John LEFLER

Born

abt. 1814 , Canada

Died

24 September 1886 , Norfolk, Ontario, Canada

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Born: abt. 1814 in Canada

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John married Lovina BROUGHTON . The couple had (at least) 6 children.
Lovina BROUGHTON was born 1817 in Canada. Lovina died abt. 1851 in Norfolk, Canada West.

John LEFLER died 24 September 1886 in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada.
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John LEFLER married

Lovina BROUGHTON
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Children of John LEFLER and Lovina BROUGHTON

Mary LEFLER

Born: 1837 , , Upper Canada
Died: ,

Married: William STRINGER 11/11/1865

Amos LEFLER

Born: July 23 1837 , Chippawa, Niagara, Upper Canada
Died: 24 August 1911 , Exeter, Fillmore, Nebraska, USA

Married: Francis Jane KUTER 7 May 1865

John LEFTLER

Born: abt. 1839, , Upper Canada
Died: 01/16/1926, , Ontario, Canada

Married: Charity SWEARS

Peter LEFLER

Born: abt. 1840, , Canada
Died: 9 December 1921, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada

Hannah LEFLER

Born: abt. 1842, , Canada West
Died: abt. 1870, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada

Lovina LEFLER

Born: 1846 , , Canada West
Died: ,

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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

1837 Birth of Child
Amos LEFLER was born July 23 1837 , Chippawa, Niagara, Ontario, Canada

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.