Olive RICHER

Born

16 December 1826 , Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada

Died

26 September 1902 , Gatineau, Québec, Canada

Olive married François AUDET dit LAPOINTE 27 January 1852 in Saint-Hermas, Quebec, Canada .
François AUDET dit LAPOINTE was born 12 November 1802 in Saint-Eustache, Lower Canada. François died 6 April 1870 in Gatineau, Québec, Canada . François was the child of Pierre AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marie-Geneviève PLOUFFE .

Parents & Family of Olive RICHER

Parents of Olive RICHER

Father

Bernard RICHER (ÉRICHE) dit LOUVETEAU

Mother

Adelaide PROULX

Grandparents of Olive RICHER

Paternal grandparents

Paul RICHER Marie GEMME

Maternal grandparents

Thomas PROULX Josephte DORÉ

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Olive RICHER

Olive RICHER married

François AUDET dit LAPOINTE
Marriage date: 27 January 1852
Marriage place: Saint-Hermas, Quebec, Canada
François AUDET dit LAPOINTE was the child of Pierre AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marie-Geneviève PLOUFFE

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

Children of François AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Olive RICHER

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Québec Genealogy Notes

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Québec Place Names Through History

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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 — 1826
16 December 1826
Saint-Benoît, Mirabel, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Olive RICHER and François AUDET dit LAPOINTE 27 January 1852, Saint-Hermas, Quebec, Canada

She was 25 years old.

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.

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.

1870 Death of Spouse/Partner
François AUDET dit LAPOINTE died 6 April 1870, Gatineau, Québec, Canada (Pointe-Gatineau) (Touraine) (East Templeton) (West Templeton)

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

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)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada