Gilbert BOURDELAIS

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14 October 1824 , Lanoraie, Lower Canada

Died

14 July 1892 , Sorel, Québec, Canada

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Gabriel BOURDELAIS dit BREME Marie-Julie MATTE

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Born: 14 October 1824 in Lanoraie, Lower Canada

Father: Gabriel BOURDELAIS dit BREME

Mother: Marie-Julie MATTE

Paternal grandparents: François BOURDELAIS dit BREME , Thérèse TELLIER dite LAFORTUNE

Maternal grandparents: Joseph-Ambroise MATTE , Thérèse ROBILLARD

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

Gilbert married Marie-Louise BOISVERT 11 January 1847 in Yamaska, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 10 children.
Marie-Louise BOISVERT was born abt. 1823 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie-Louise died 11 December 1881 in Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada (Three Rivers). Marie-Louise was the child of Jean-Baptiste BOISVERT and Marie-Françoise DUBOIS.

Gilbert BOURDELAIS died 14 July 1892 in Sorel, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
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Gilbert BOURDELAIS married

Marie-Louise BOISVERT
Marriage date: 11 January 1847
Marriage place: Yamaska, Canada East
Source: Familysearch.org. Quebec Vital and Church Records (Drouin Collection) (Mormon Genealogy Records).
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Marie-Louise BOISVERT was the child of Jean-Baptiste BOISVERT and Marie-Françoise DUBOIS

Marriage notes:

Name: Gilbert Bourdelais

Spouse: Louise Baisurt

[Boisclair Baisurt]

Event: Mariage (Marriage)

Marriage Year: 1847

Marriage Location: Yamaska, Québec (Quebec)

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Children of Gilbert BOURDELAIS and Marie-Louise BOISVERT

Marie Louise Josephine BOURDELAIS

Born: 2 February 1847, Sorel, Canada East
Died: 2 December 1914, Winooski, Vermont, USA

Married: Joseph Trefle Emmanuel LAVALLEE 16 February 1874 Place: Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Euna BOURDELAIS

Born: 22 September 1849, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 30 April 1899,

Louis BOURDELAIS

Born: 25 May 1851, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 31 August 1907, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Carmelais PAQUETTE 16 September 1873 Place: Lanoraie, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie)

Ephraim BOURDELAIS

Born: 29 January 1853, Yamaska, Canada East
Died: 11 November 1895, Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Adelaine PAGE 13 May 1873 Place: Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Eugene BOURDELAIS

Born: 23 May 1856, Yamaska, Canada East
Died: 5 September 1911, Sorel, Québec, Canada

Sophronie BOURDELAIS

Born: 23 January 1858, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 24 August 1907, , Québec Province, Canada

Marie-Victoraine BOURDELAIS

Born: 1 October 1860, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 4 March 1926,

Joseph Honore BOURDELAIS

Born: 1 April 1862, Yamaska, Canada East
Died: 20 April 1936, Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA

Marie-Sophie BOURDELAIS

Born: 3 January 1866, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Olive-Bernier BOURDELAIS

Born: 27 March 1867, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: April 1936,

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Birth — 1824
14 October 1824
Lanoraie, Lower Canada

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)

1847 Marriage / Partner
Gilbert BOURDELAIS and Marie-Louise BOISVERT 11 January 1847, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

He was 22 years old.

1847 Birth of Child
Marie Louise Josephine BOURDELAIS was born 2 February 1847, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Gilbert was 22 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1849 Birth of Child
Euna BOURDELAIS was born 22 September 1849, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Gilbert was 24 years old.

1851 Birth of Child
Louis BOURDELAIS was born 25 May 1851, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Gilbert was 26 years old.

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1853 Birth of Child
Ephraim BOURDELAIS was born 29 January 1853, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

Gilbert was 28 years old.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1856 Birth of Child
Eugene BOURDELAIS was born 23 May 1856, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

Gilbert was 31 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Sophronie BOURDELAIS was born 23 January 1858, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Gilbert was 33 years old.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1860 Birth of Child
Marie-Victoraine BOURDELAIS was born 1 October 1860, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Gilbert was 35 years old.

1862 Birth of Child
Joseph Honore BOURDELAIS was born 1 April 1862, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

Gilbert was 37 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Birth of Child
Marie-Sophie BOURDELAIS was born 3 January 1866, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Gilbert was 41 years old.

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.

1867 Birth of Child
Olive-Bernier BOURDELAIS was born 27 March 1867, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Gilbert was 42 years old.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 Marriage of Child
Ephraim BOURDELAIS married 13 May 1873, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Adelaine PAGE

1873 Marriage of Child
Louis BOURDELAIS married 16 September 1873 , Lanoraie, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Lanoraie) to Carmelais PAQUETTE

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1874 Marriage of Child
Marie Louise Josephine BOURDELAIS married 16 February 1874, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Joseph Trefle Emmanuel LAVALLEE

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)