Elmire-Caroline ALEXANDRE dite GRANDBOIS

(b. 8 March 1832 , Sainte-Martine, Lower Canada d. 18 June 1868 , Sainte-Martine, Québec, Canada )
Age: 36

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Elmire-Caroline ALEXANDRE dite GRANDBOIS was born 8 March 1832 in Sainte-Martine, Lower Canada

Elmire-Caroline ALEXANDRE dite GRANDBOIS was the child of Paul-Alexandre DIT GRANDBOIS and Catherine NIEDING and the grandchild of: (paternal) Alexandre GRANDBOIS dit GUILBAUT and Marie-Anne DEMERS (maternal) Caspar-Gerhardt NIEDING and Marie-Angélique GAGNÉ dite D'AUBURGEON

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Elmire-Caroline married Paul TRUDEL 20 November 1854 in Sainte-Martine, Canada East . Paul TRUDEL was born abt. 1808 Paul died abt. 1897

Elmire-Caroline ALEXANDRE dite GRANDBOIS died 18 June 1868 in Sainte-Martine, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

Québec Généalogie - What is a 'dit/dite' name? When the first settlers came to Québec from France it was a custom to add a 'dit' nickname to the surname. The English translation of 'dit' is 'said'. The Colonists of Nouvelle France added 'dit' names as distinguishers. A settler might have wanted to differentiate their family from their siblings by taking a 'dit' name that described the locale to which they had relocated. The acquiring of a 'dit' name might also be the result of a casual adoption, whereby the person wanted to honor the family who had raised them. Another reason was also to distinguish themselves by taking as a 'dit' name the town or village in France from which they originated. This custom ended around 1900 when people began using only one name, either the 'dit' nickname or their original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Paul TRUDEL-- Date: 20 November 1854 Place: Sainte-Martine, Canada East

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1832 Birth
8 March 1832
Sainte-Martine, Lower Canada

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 / Partner
Elmire-Caroline ALEXANDRE dite GRANDBOIS and Paul TRUDEL 20 November 1854, Sainte-Martine, Québec, Canada

She was 22 years old.

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.