Marguerite DUPUIS

Born

13 July 1781 , Saint-Régis, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

2 July 1868 , Saint-Antoine-Abbé, Huntingdon, Québec, Canada

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René DUPUIS Marguerite CARDINAL

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Born: 13 July 1781 in Saint-Régis, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: René DUPUIS

Mother: Marguerite CARDINAL

Paternal grandparents: François DUPUIS , Jeanne ROUGIER

Maternal grandparents: Paul-François CARDINAL , Marie-Marguerite PERRAS

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Marguerite married François PRIMEAU 17 November 1800 in Saint-Constant, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
François PRIMEAU was born 7 September 1772 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). François died 13 March 1861 in Saint-Antoine-Abbé, Huntingdon, Québec, Canada. François was the child of François PRIMEAU and Marie-Françoise DUPUIS.

Marguerite DUPUIS died 2 July 1868 in Saint-Antoine-Abbé, Huntingdon, 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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Marguerite DUPUIS married

François PRIMEAU
Marriage date: 17 November 1800
Marriage place: Saint-Constant, Lower Canada
François PRIMEAU was the child of François PRIMEAU and Marie-Françoise DUPUIS

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Children of François PRIMEAU and Marguerite DUPUIS

Mathilde-Martine PRIMEAU

Born: 27 January 1817, Saint-Constant, Lower Canada
Died: 29 March 1892, Franklin Centre, Québec, Canada

Married: Medard POISSANT 6 February 1837 Place: Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1781
13 July 1781
Saint-Régis, Province of Québec, Canada

1784 - The bifocal lens is invented (Benjamin Franklin, United States)

The oil lamp is invented (Aimé Argand, Switzerland)

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1800 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite DUPUIS and François PRIMEAU 17 November 1800, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada

She was 19 years old.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Birth of Child
Mathilde-Martine PRIMEAU was born 27 January 1817, Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada

Marguerite was 35 years old.

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 of Child
Mathilde-Martine PRIMEAU married 6 February 1837 , Saint-Constant, Québec, Canada to Medard POISSANT

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

1861 Death of Spouse/Partner
François PRIMEAU died 13 March 1861, Saint-Antoine-Abbé, Huntingdon, Québec, Canada

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.