Marie-Anne BLAIS

Born

20 April 1805 , Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada

Died

25 December 1869 , Sainte-Geneviève, Québec, Canada

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Marie-Anne BLAIS was born 20 April 1805 in Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada

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Marie-Anne married Isadore BLEAU 26 September 1825 in Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Isadore BLEAU was born 7 February 1804 in Sainte-Geneviève, Québec, Canada (Pierrefonds)*. Isadore died 16 December 1898 in Sainte-Geneviève, Québec, Canada (Pierrefonds)*. Isadore was the child of Jean-Baptiste BLEAU and Agathe-Lupien BARON.

Marie-Anne BLAIS died 25 December 1869 in Sainte-Geneviève, Québec, Canada .
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Marie-Anne BLAIS married

Isadore BLEAU-- Date: 26 September 1825 Place: Sainte-Geneviève, Lower Canada
Isadore BLEAU was the child of Jean-Baptiste BLEAU and Agathe-Lupien BARON

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Children of Isadore BLEAU and Marie-Anne BLAIS

Jean-Baptiste BLEAU (b.7 November 1884, Sainte-Geneviève, Québec, Canada d. 18 July 1930, Montréal, Québec, Canada )
m. Justina BOISCLARE (BOISCLAIR) 24 September 1885

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1805 Birth
20 April 1805
Sainte-Geneviève, Lower 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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Anne BLAIS and Isadore BLEAU 26 September 1825, Sainte-Geneviève, Québec, Canada (Pierrefonds)*

She was 20 years old.

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.