Anselme COMEAU

(b. 4 March 1799 , Saulnierville, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 26 May 1873 , Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Anselme COMEAU was born 4 March 1799 in Saulnierville, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Anselme COMEAU was the child of Jean Chrysostome COMEAU and Marie Suzanne LEBLANC and the grandchild of: (paternal) Francois Dit Maza COMEAU and Felicite LEBLANC (maternal) Pierre LEBLANC and Madeleine BABIN

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Anselme married Anne Therese THERIAULT abt. 1823 in Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Anne Therese THERIAULT was born 18 October 1801 in Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada (Church Point) (Little Brook). Anne Therese died abt. 1885 Anne Therese was the child of Francois THERIAULT and Agnes "Anne" COMEAU.

Anselme COMEAU died 26 May 1873 in Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada .
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Anselme COMEAU married

Anne Therese THERIAULT-- Date: abt. 1823 Place: , Nova Scotia, Canada
Anne Therese THERIAULT was the child of Francois THERIAULT and Agnes "Anne" COMEAU

Children of Anselme COMEAU and Anne Therese THERIAULT:

Lezin Valentin "Larkin" COMEAU (b.8 September 1834, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada d. abt. 1885, Saulnierville, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Aimee L "Emma" THERIAULT 1854 in Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

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1799 Birth
4 March 1799
Saulnierville, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

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

1834 Birth of Child
Lezin Valentin "Larkin" COMEAU was born 8 September 1834, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada (Church Point) (Little Brook)

Anselme was 35 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.