Pierre PARADIS

Born

7 August 1815 , L'Ancienne Lorette, Lower Canada

Died

9 March 1889 , Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Québec, Canada

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Born: 7 August 1815 in L'Ancienne Lorette, Lower Canada

Parents of Pierre PARADIS

Father

Pierre PARADIS

Mother

Elisabeth PARENT

Grandparents of Pierre PARADIS

Paternal grandparents

Jacques-Alexis PARADIS Angelique HAMEL

Maternal grandparents

Michel PARENT Marie-Anne BELLEAU

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

Pierre married Rose-Christine HENRY (HENRI) 9 August 1836 in L'Ancienne Lorette, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Rose-Christine HENRY (HENRI) was born 16 June 1820 in Québec, Lower Canada . Rose-Christine died 27 February 1867 in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Canada East. Rose-Christine was the child of Charles HENRY (HENRI) and Julie WATERS.

Pierre PARADIS died 9 March 1889 in Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, Québec, Canada.

son of Pierre Paradis and Elisabeth Parent

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Pierre PARADIS

Pierre PARADIS married

Rose-Christine HENRY (HENRI)
Marriage date: 9 August 1836
Marriage place: L'Ancienne Lorette, Lower Canada
Rose-Christine HENRY (HENRI) was the child of Charles HENRY (HENRI) and Julie WATERS

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Pierre PARADIS and Rose-Christine HENRY (HENRI)

Louise PARADIS

Born: April 1855, Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada East
Died: ,

Married: Louis BURQUE dit LALIBERTE 11 February 1878 Place: Québec, Québec, Canada

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1815
7 August 1815
L'Ancienne Lorette, 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)

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

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 Marriage / Partner
Pierre PARADIS and Rose-Christine HENRY (HENRI) 9 August 1836 , L'Ancienne Lorette, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation)

He was 21 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.

1855 Birth of Child
Louise PARADIS was born April 1855, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur)

Pierre was 39 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.