Angele BERNIER

(b. 22 April 1806 , La Présentation, Lower Canada d. 28 August 1876 , Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada )

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Angele BERNIER was born 22 April 1806 in La Présentation, Lower Canada

Angele BERNIER was the child of Joseph-Marie BERNIER and Judith GUYON dite DION and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph-Marie BERNIER and Marie-Geneviève BERNIER (maternal) Augustin GUYON dit LEMOINE and Marie-Judith GRIGNON

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Angele married Joseph GAUCHER 20 September 1825 in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph GAUCHER was born 23 December 1805 in Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville) . Joseph died 14 February 1884 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada . Joseph was the child of Jean-Baptiste GAUCHER dit BOURDELAIS and Angélique HEBERT.

Angele BERNIER died 28 August 1876 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, 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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Angele BERNIER married

Joseph GAUCHER-- Date: 20 September 1825 Place: Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Lower Canada
Joseph GAUCHER was the child of Jean-Baptiste GAUCHER dit BOURDELAIS and Angélique HEBERT

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Children of Joseph GAUCHER and Angele BERNIER:

Éléonore GAUCHER (b.3 November 1832, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada d. 20 September 1902, L'Ange-Gardien, Montmorency, Québec, Canada)
m. Basile RAVENELLE 29 October 1850 in Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

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1806 Birth
22 April 1806
La Présentation, 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)

1825 Marriage / Partner
Angele BERNIER and Joseph GAUCHER 20 September 1825, Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-Rouville)

She was 19 years old.

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

1832 Birth of Child
Éléonore GAUCHER was born 3 November 1832, Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada

Angele was 26 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)

1850 Marriage of Child
Éléonore GAUCHER married 29 October 1850 , Saint-Damase, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada to Basile RAVENELLE

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.