Joseph BURQUE

(b. abt. 1865 , Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada d. 8 April 1890 , Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada )

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Joseph BURQUE was born abt. 1865 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Joseph BURQUE was the child of François-Xavier BURQUE dit LALIBERTÉ and Marie-Marguerite FREDERIC dite DESPARS and the grandchild of: (paternal) Laurent BURQUE dit LALIBERTÉ and Angélique PANNETON

Joseph BURQUE died 8 April 1890 in 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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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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1870 - Worcester, Massachusetts
Name: Joseph Burke
Age in 1870: 6
Birth Year: abt 1864
Birthplace: Canada
Dwelling Number: 396
Home in 1870: Worcester Ward 4, Worcester, Massachusetts
Race: White
Gender: Male
Occupation: At Home
Father of Foreign Birth: Y
Mother of Foreign Birth: Y
Inferred Father: Xavier Burke
Inferred Mother: Margret Burke
Household Members:
Name Age
Xavier Burke 44
Margret Burke 44
Loris Burke 13
Joseph Burke 6
Riginos Burke 4
Arthur Burke 11/ 12

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1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1881 - St-Hyacinthe, Quebec
Name: Joseph Burque
Gender: Male
Age: 16
Birth Year: 1865
Birthplace: Canada
Religion: Catholic
Nationality: Can Francaise (French)
Occupation: Comanis
Province: Quebec
District Number: 62
District: St Hyacinthe
Sub-District Number: A
Subdistrict: St Hyacinthe
Division: 1
Household Members:
Name Age
Havier Burque 54
Julie Burque 44
Joseph Burque 16
Regina Burque 14
Adelphe Burque 12
Marie Louise Burque 7

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1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)