Marie Magdeleine DUGAST

(b. 23 January 1802 , Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 18 March 1874 , Baie Ste Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Marie Magdeleine DUGAST was born 23 January 1802 in Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Marie Magdeleine DUGAST was the child of ? and ?

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Marie Magdeleine married Augustin Magloire MELANSON abt. 1825 in Baie Ste Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Augustin Magloire MELANSON was born 14 September 1802 in Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada (Church Point) (Little Brook).

Marie Magdeleine DUGAST died 18 March 1874 in Baie Ste Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Marie Magdeleine DUGAST married

Augustin Magloire MELANSON-- Date: abt. 1825 Place: Baie Ste Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Children of Augustin Magloire MELANSON and Marie Magdeleine DUGAST:

Helen MELANSON (b.9 May 1836, Grosses Coques, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 11 September 1907, )
m. Joseph BELLIVEAU 26 February 1865 in Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada (Church Point) (Little Brook)

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1802 Birth
23 January 1802
Clare, 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

1836 Birth of Child
Helen MELANSON was born 9 May 1836, Grosses Coques, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Marie Magdeleine was 34 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)

1865 Marriage of Child
Helen MELANSON married 26 February 1865, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada (Church Point) (Little Brook) to Joseph BELLIVEAU

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.