Simon Toussaint GAUDET

(b. 29 October 1806 , Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 16 June 1883 , Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada )

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Simon Toussaint GAUDET was born 29 October 1806 in Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Simon Toussaint GAUDET was the child of Joseph Louis GAUDET and Marie Madeleine MELANSON and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph GAUDET and Anne-Gertrude LEBLANC (maternal) Amand MELANSON and Marie Anne LEBLANC

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Simon Toussaint married Marie Perpetue BASTARACHE abt. 1832 . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie Perpetue BASTARACHE was born 20 October 1809 in Baie Sainte Marie, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Simon Toussaint GAUDET died 16 June 1883 in Memramcook, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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Simon Toussaint GAUDET married

Marie Perpetue BASTARACHE-- Date: abt. 1832 Place:

Children of Simon Toussaint GAUDET and Marie Perpetue BASTARACHE:

Pierre Volusien GAUDET (b.2 August 1833, Saint Marys Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 11 June 1911, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada )
m. Elisabeth Gertrude LEBLANC 1859 in Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada (Church Point) (Little Brook)

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1806 Birth
29 October 1806
Baie Sainte Marie, 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

1833 Birth of Child
Pierre Volusien GAUDET was born 2 August 1833, Saint Marys Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

Simon Toussaint was 26 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.