Augustin COMEAU

(b. 28 August 1799 , Belliveau's Cove, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 28 November 1871 , Belliveau's Cove, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Augustin COMEAU was born 28 August 1799 in Belliveau's Cove, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Augustin COMEAU was the child of Jean Baptiste Salvador COMEAU and Mary LEBLANC and the grandchild of: (paternal) Salvatore COMEAU and Anastasie BELLIVEAU (maternal) Charles LEBLANC and Anne MELANSON

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Augustin married Marie Madeleine GAUDET abt. 1827 in Belliveau's Cove, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie Madeleine GAUDET was born 24 May 1803 in Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada (Church Point) (Little Brook). Marie Madeleine died abt. 1891 in Belliveau's Cove, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. Marie Madeleine was the child of Isidore GAUDET and Marguerite BASTARACHE.

Augustin COMEAU died 28 November 1871 in Belliveau's Cove, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Augustin COMEAU married

Marie Madeleine GAUDET-- Date: abt. 1827 Place: Belliveau's Cove, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada
Marie Madeleine GAUDET was the child of Isidore GAUDET and Marguerite BASTARACHE

Children of Augustin COMEAU and Marie Madeleine GAUDET:

Leon Antoine COMEAU (b.18 May 1836, Belliveau, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 14 July 1901, Boxford, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Monique Angele DOUCETT 13 January 1857

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1799 Birth
28 August 1799
Belliveau's Cove, 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

1836 Birth of Child
Leon Antoine COMEAU was born 18 May 1836, Belliveau, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Augustin was 36 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.