Medard POISSANT

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5 September 1814 , Saint-Constant, Lower Canada

Died

18 March 1896 , Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada

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André POISSANT Marie-Elisabeth PERRAS

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Born: 5 September 1814 in Saint-Constant, Lower Canada

Father: André POISSANT

Mother: Marie-Elisabeth PERRAS

Paternal grandparents: Claude POISSANT dit LASALINE , Marie-Catherine LEMIEUX

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Medard married Mathilde-Martine PRIMEAU 6 February 1837 in Saint-Constant, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Mathilde-Martine PRIMEAU was born 27 January 1817 in Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada. Mathilde-Martine died 29 March 1892 in Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada (St-Antoine-Abbé) (Starnesborough). Mathilde-Martine was the child of François PRIMEAU and Marguerite DUPUIS.

Medard POISSANT died 18 March 1896 in Franklin Centre, 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
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1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
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Medard POISSANT married

Mathilde-Martine PRIMEAU
Marriage date: 6 February 1837
Marriage place: Saint-Constant, Lower Canada
Mathilde-Martine PRIMEAU was the child of François PRIMEAU and Marguerite DUPUIS

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Children of Medard POISSANT and Mathilde-Martine PRIMEAU

Aurelie POISSANT

Born: 24 May 1841, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 5 January 1922, Clinton, Clinton, New York, USA

Married: Joseph Narcisse DECOSSE 20 August 1867

Marie Olive Elise POISSANT

Born: 5 April 1847, Châteauguay, Canada East
Died: 15 August 1937, St Albans, Vermont, USA

Married: Chrysostome (Chrysologue) DEMERS 23 August 1870 Place: Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay)

Married: Joseph TREMBLAY 10 May 1878 Place: Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme, Lévis, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme-de-Lauzon)

Married: Julien (Julius) POUPART (POUPORE) 1907

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Birth — 1814
5 September 1814
Saint-Constant, 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)

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 Marriage / Partner
Medard POISSANT and Mathilde-Martine PRIMEAU 6 February 1837 , Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada

He was 22 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Aurelie POISSANT was born 24 May 1841, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Medard was 26 years old.

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 Birth of Child
Marie Olive Elise POISSANT was born 5 April 1847, Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay)

Medard was 32 years old.

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.

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 Marriage of Child
Marie Olive Elise POISSANT married 23 August 1870, Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay) to Chrysostome (Chrysologue) DEMERS

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 Marriage of Child
Marie Olive Elise POISSANT married 10 May 1878, Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme, Lévis, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme-de-Lauzon) to Joseph TREMBLAY

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