Laurent ROY

(b. 16 November 1798 , L'Acadie, Lower Canada d. 10 August 1869 , L'Acadie, Québec, Canada )

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Laurent ROY was born 16 November 1798 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada

Laurent ROY was the child of François ROY and Françoise-Rose BRO (BREAULT) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Laurent ROY and Catherine CORDIER (maternal) Alexis BRO (BRAULT) and Marguerite BARIAULT (BARIAUT)

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Laurent married Marie-Louise RICHARD 28 September 1818 in L'Acadie, Lower Canada . Marie-Louise RICHARD was born 30 January 1799 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie). Marie-Louise died 9 February 1879 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie). Marie-Louise was the child of Joseph RICHARD and Marie ROY.

Laurent ROY died 10 August 1869 in L'Acadie, Québec, Canada .

m. Richard Marie-Louise

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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-Louise RICHARD-- Date: 28 September 1818 Place: L'Acadie, Lower Canada
Marie-Louise RICHARD was the child of Joseph RICHARD and Marie ROY

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1798 Birth
16 November 1798
L'Acadie, 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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Laurent ROY and Marie-Louise RICHARD 28 September 1818, L'Acadie, Québec, Canada (Sainte-Marguerite-de-Blairfindie)

He was 19 years old.

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 - 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.