Amable GERARD

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22 May 1804 , Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Died

1 November 1885 , Farnham, Québec, Canada

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Louis GIRARD Marguerite LOISELLE

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Born: 22 May 1804 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Father: Louis GIRARD

Mother: Marguerite LOISELLE

Paternal grandparents: Louis-Antoine GIRARD , Marie-Anne BUREAU dite SANSOUCY

Maternal grandparents: Toussaint LOISELLE , Marie-Genevieve DESLANDES dite CHAMPIGNY

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Amable married Emilie PHANEUF 27 November 1827 in Saint-Césaire, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Emilie PHANEUF was born 24 December 1804 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Emilie died 10 March 1886 in Dunham, Quebec, Canada. Emilie was the child of Pierre PHANEUF and Marie-Elisabeth BOURBEAU.

Amable GERARD died 1 November 1885 in Farnham, 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
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Amable GERARD married

Emilie PHANEUF
Marriage date: 27 November 1827
Marriage place: Saint-Césaire, Lower Canada
Emilie PHANEUF was the child of Pierre PHANEUF and Marie-Elisabeth BOURBEAU

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Children of Amable GERARD and Emilie PHANEUF

Edwidge GERARD

Born: 3 August 1835, Saint-Césaire, Lower Canada
Died: 14 September 1902, Frelighsburg, Missiquoi, Quebec, Canada

Married: Peter Hopkins LITNO (LETOURNEAU) 6 February 1854 Place: Palmer, Massachusetts, USA (Bondsville) (Three Rivers)

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Birth — 1804
22 May 1804
Saint-Hyacinthe, 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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Amable GERARD and Emilie PHANEUF 27 November 1827, Saint-Césaire, Québec, Canada (St-Cesaire)

He was 23 years old.

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1835 Birth of Child
Edwidge GERARD was born 3 August 1835, Saint-Césaire, Québec, Canada (St-Cesaire)

Amable was 31 years old.

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.

1854 Marriage of Child
Edwidge GERARD married 6 February 1854, Palmer, Massachusetts, USA (Bondsville) (Three Rivers) to Peter Hopkins LITNO (LETOURNEAU)

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.