Anselme Benjamin MIUS

(b. 21 April 1787 , Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 12 November 1877 , Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada )

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Anselme Benjamin MIUS was born 21 April 1787 in Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Anselme Benjamin MIUS was the child of Benjamin Francois MIUS and Anne DOUCETTE and the grandchild of: (paternal) François MIUS and Jeanne DUON

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Anselme Benjamin married Seraphie MIUS 14 April 1807 in Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Seraphie MIUS was born abt. 1789 in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada (Port Royal, Acadia). Seraphie died 27 March 1860 Seraphie was the child of Jean Baptiste MIUS dit D'ENTREMONT and Marie Modeste DOUCET.

Anselme Benjamin MIUS died 12 November 1877 in Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Anselme Benjamin MIUS married

Seraphie MIUS-- Date: 14 April 1807 Place: Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Seraphie MIUS was the child of Jean Baptiste MIUS dit D'ENTREMONT and Marie Modeste DOUCET

Children of Anselme Benjamin MIUS and Seraphie MIUS:

Adrien MIUS (b.26 October 1813, Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada d. 12 May 1892, Salmon River, Clare, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada)
m. Anne Adelaide DOUCET 1840

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1787 Birth
21 April 1787
Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1807 Marriage / Partner
Anselme Benjamin MIUS and Seraphie MIUS 14 April 1807, Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

He was 19 years old.

1813 Birth of Child
Adrien MIUS was born 26 October 1813, Eel Brook, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

Anselme Benjamin was 26 years old.

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

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.