Pierre LEVESQUE

Born

7 September 1813 , Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Lower Canada

Died

20 October 1884 , Rimouski, Québec, Canada

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Anselme LEVESQUE Marguerite COMEAU

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Born: 7 September 1813 in Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, Lower Canada

Father: Anselme LEVESQUE

Mother: Marguerite COMEAU

Paternal grandparents: Louis-Charles LEVESQUE , Marie-Josephte HUDON dite BEAULIEU

Maternal grandparents: Jean Baptiste COMEAU , Josephe HOUDE (HOULE)

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Pierre married Tatienne LEPAGE 23 November 1841 in Rimouski, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Tatienne LEPAGE was born 1 March 1825 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic). Tatienne died 13 September 1899 in Le Bic, Canada. Tatienne was the child of Honorat LEPAGE and Julienne PARENT.

Pierre LEVESQUE died 20 October 1884 in Rimouski, 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.
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Tatienne LEPAGE
Marriage date: 23 November 1841
Marriage place: Rimouski, Canada East
Tatienne LEPAGE was the child of Honorat LEPAGE and Julienne PARENT

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François LEVESQUE

Born: 13 August 1861, Rimouski, Canada East
Died: 16 October 1931, St-Épiphane, Canada

Married: Zoe DUBE 23 January 1893 Place: L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

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Birth — 1813
7 September 1813
Saint-Grégoire, Nicolet, 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 - 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 Marriage / Partner
Pierre LEVESQUE and Tatienne LEPAGE 23 November 1841, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

He was 28 years old.

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

1861 Birth of Child
François LEVESQUE was born 13 August 1861, Rimouski, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Sacré-Coeur) (Saint-Germain) (Le Bic)

Pierre was 47 years old.

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.