Marie-Reine POISSANT

Born

12 December 1805 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

abt. 1881 , L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada

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Dominque POISSANT Marie-Reine LESTAGE

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Born: 12 December 1805 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: Dominque POISSANT

Mother: Marie-Reine LESTAGE

Paternal grandparents: Pierre-François POISSANT , Marie-Catherine MONET

Maternal grandparents: Pierre LESTAGE , Marie-Reine DAIGNEAU (DENIAU)

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Marie-Reine married Paul SOREL . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Paul SOREL was born 19 January 1800 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . Paul died 21 October 1889 in L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada. Paul was the child of Jacques SOREL and Catherine PROVOST (PREVOST).

Marie-Reine POISSANT died abt. 1881 in L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada.
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Marie-Reine POISSANT married

Paul SOREL
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Paul SOREL was the child of Jacques SOREL and Catherine PROVOST (PREVOST)

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Marie-Reine SOREL

Born: 19 July 1824, La Prairie, Lower Canada
Died: abt. 1859, , Québec Province, Canada

Married: Theophile (Tuffield) PEROT 8 November 1841 Place: , Québec Province, Canada

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1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1805
12 December 1805
Québec Province, 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)

1824 Birth of Child
Marie-Reine SOREL was born 19 July 1824, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

Marie-Reine was 18 years old.

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

1841 Marriage of Child
Marie-Reine SOREL married 8 November 1841, , Québec Province, Canada to Theophile (Tuffield) PEROT

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.