Pierre ETHIER

Born

20 April 1797 , L'Assomption, Lower Canada

Died

29 November 1871 , Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Québec, Canada

Pierre married Victoire VINET dite SOULIGNY 4 February 1828 in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Lower Canada .
Victoire VINET dite SOULIGNY was born 29 July 1791 in Laval, Lower Canada . Victoire died 27 February 1878 in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Québec, Canada. Victoire was the child of Jean-Baptiste VINET dit SOULIGNY and Marie-Marguerite LANGLOIS dite LACHAPELLE .

Parents & Family of Pierre ETHIER

Parents of Pierre ETHIER

Father

Pierre ÉTHIER

Mother

Marguerite GIRARD

Grandparents of Pierre ETHIER

Paternal grandparents

Paul ÉTHIER Angélique CHARBONNEAU

Maternal grandparents

Philippe GIRARD Veronique DUSSAULT dite LAFLEUR

m. Vinet Victoire

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Pierre ETHIER

Pierre ETHIER married

Victoire VINET dite SOULIGNY
Marriage date: 4 February 1828
Marriage place: Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Lower Canada
Victoire VINET dite SOULIGNY was the child of Jean-Baptiste VINET dit SOULIGNY and Marie-Marguerite LANGLOIS dite LACHAPELLE

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Pierre ETHIER and Victoire VINET dite SOULIGNY

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1797
20 April 1797
L'Assomption, Lower Canada

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

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)

1828 Marriage / Partner
Pierre ETHIER and Victoire VINET dite SOULIGNY 4 February 1828, Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Québec, Canada

He was 30 years old.

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.