Olive MERCIER

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20 June 1806 , Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Died

27 October 1879 , Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada

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Pierre MERCIER Marie-Charlotte CHARTIER

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Born: 20 June 1806 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre MERCIER

Mother: Marie-Charlotte CHARTIER

Paternal grandparents: Pierre MERCIER , Marguerite FORTIN

Maternal grandparents: Jacques CHARTIER , Françoise LABBE

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Olive married Charles GRENIER 11 June 1827 in Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Charles GRENIER was born 28 August 1796 in Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Québec, Canada. Charles died 7 December 1878 in Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice). Charles was the child of Jean Baptiste GRENIER and Françoise-Romaine GAGNON.

Olive MERCIER died 27 October 1879 in Rivière-du-Loup, 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.

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Olive MERCIER married

Charles GRENIER
Marriage date: 11 June 1827
Marriage place: Rivière-du-Loup, Lower Canada
Charles GRENIER was the child of Jean Baptiste GRENIER and Françoise-Romaine GAGNON

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Children of Charles GRENIER and Olive MERCIER

Ferdinand GRENIER

Born: 30 January 1830, Cacouna, Lower Canada
Died: 15 September 1900, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada

Married: Emilie GRANT 23 November 1857 Place: Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

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Birth — 1806
20 June 1806
Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, 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)

1827 Marriage / Partner
Olive MERCIER and Charles GRENIER 11 June 1827, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

She was 20 years old.

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

1830 Birth of Child
Ferdinand GRENIER was born 30 January 1830, Cacouna, Québec, Canada (Saint-Georges-de-Cacouna)

Olive was 23 years old.

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 - 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.

1857 Marriage of Child
Ferdinand GRENIER married 23 November 1857, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice) to Emilie GRANT

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.

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.

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

1878 Death of Spouse/Partner
Charles GRENIER died 7 December 1878, Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada (Fraserville) (Riviere du Loup en Bas) (Saint-Patrice)

Death — 1879
27 October 1879
Rivière-du-Loup, Québec, Canada
She died at the age of 73.

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