Paul-Damase FONTAINE dit BIENVENU

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23 August 1806 , Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Died

5 April 1870 , Saint-Guillaume, Québec, Canada

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Amable FONTAINE dit BIENVENU Louise PATENAUDE

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Born: 23 August 1806 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Father: Amable FONTAINE dit BIENVENU

Mother: Louise PATENAUDE

Paternal grandparents: François FONTAINE , Marie-Françoise BÉRARD dite LEPINE

Maternal grandparents: François PATENAUDE , Marie-Louise GUILLET

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Paul-Damase married Geneviève-Marie PARADIS dite AUBIAN 9 February 1830 in Saint-Hugues, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Geneviève-Marie PARADIS dite AUBIAN was born 15 January 1805 in Berthierville, Québec, Canada (Berthier-en-Haut) (Ste-Genevieve-de-Berthier). Geneviève-Marie died 22 April 1876 in Saint-Guillaume, Québec, Canada (Saint-Guillaume-d'Upton). Geneviève-Marie was the child of Joseph-Charles AUBIN dit PARADIS and Marguerite MAGNAN.

Paul-Damase FONTAINE dit BIENVENU died 5 April 1870 in Saint-Guillaume, 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-Damase FONTAINE dit BIENVENU married

Geneviève-Marie PARADIS dite AUBIAN
Marriage date: 9 February 1830
Marriage place: Saint-Hugues, Lower Canada
Geneviève-Marie PARADIS dite AUBIAN was the child of Joseph-Charles AUBIN dit PARADIS and Marguerite MAGNAN

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Children of Paul-Damase FONTAINE dit BIENVENU and Geneviève-Marie PARADIS dite AUBIAN

François Xavier "Frank" FONTAINE

Born: 29 January 1833, Saint-Hugues, Lower Canada
Died: 5 December 1918, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, USA

Married: Marie-Louise-Lumina VANDAL 1856

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Birth — 1806
23 August 1806
Saint-Hyacinthe, 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 Marriage / Partner
Paul-Damase FONTAINE dit BIENVENU and Geneviève-Marie PARADIS dite AUBIAN 9 February 1830, Saint-Hugues, Québec, Canada

He was 23 years old.

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1833 Birth of Child
François Xavier "Frank" FONTAINE was born 29 January 1833, Saint-Hugues, Québec, Canada

Paul-Damase 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)

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.