Marie-Louise PIGEON

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abt. 1812 , Québec, Lower Canada

Died

abt. 1885 , Québec, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste PIGEON Marie-Christine POULIN

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Born: abt. 1812 in Québec, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste PIGEON

Mother: Marie-Christine POULIN

Paternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste PIGEON , Marguerite ROCHON

Maternal grandparents: Ignace POULIN , Agathe BISSONNETTE

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Marie-Louise married Jean-Joseph-Baptiste BELAIR . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jean-Joseph-Baptiste BELAIR was born abt. 1810 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Jean-Joseph-Baptiste died abt. 1896 in St Theodore de Chertsey, Quebec, Canada.

Marie-Louise PIGEON died abt. 1885 in Québec, 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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Jean-Joseph-Baptiste BELAIR
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Children of Jean-Joseph-Baptiste BELAIR and Marie-Louise PIGEON

William Isaac BELAIR

Born: 13 June 1842, Kensington, Quebec, Canada
Died: 5 November 1930, Malone, New York, USA

Married: Mary Jane DUGAS (DEGON) 17 October 1864 Place: Ormstown, Canada East

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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 - 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

1842 Birth of Child
William Isaac BELAIR was born 13 June 1842, Kensington, Quebec, 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)

1864 Marriage of Child
William Isaac BELAIR married 17 October 1864, Ormstown, Canada East to Mary Jane DUGAS (DEGON)

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.