Paul AUDET dit LAPOINTE

Born

abt. 1821 , Québec Province, Canada

Died

23 June 1877 , Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada

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François AUDET dit LAPOINTE Angele AUDIBERT dite LAJEUNESSE

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Born: abt. 1821 in Québec Province, Canada

Father: François AUDET dit LAPOINTE

Mother: Angele AUDIBERT dite LAJEUNESSE

Paternal grandparents: François AUDET dit LAPOINTE , Marie-Françoise DELAGE

Maternal grandparents: Pierre-Noel AUDIBERT dit LAJEUNESSE , Marguerite CURODEAU

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Paul married Marie-Caroline PLANTE 10 February 1846 in Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Caroline PLANTE was born abt. 1821 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Marie-Caroline was the child of Pierre PLANTE and Rosalie GOURDEAU.

Paul AUDET dit LAPOINTE died 23 June 1877 in Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, 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 AUDET dit LAPOINTE married

Marie-Caroline PLANTE
Marriage date: 10 February 1846
Marriage place: Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Canada East
Marie-Caroline PLANTE was the child of Pierre PLANTE and Rosalie GOURDEAU

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Children of Paul AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marie-Caroline PLANTE

Zoé-Virginie LAPOINTE dite AUDETTE

Born: 27 April 1857, Saint-Hermas, Mirabel, Canada East
Died: 25 September 1935, Messines, Québec, Canada

Married: Calixte GALIPEAU 6 October 1873 Place: Gatineau, Québec, Canada (Pointe-Gatineau) (Touraine) (East Templeton) (West Templeton)

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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 - 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)

1846 Marriage / Partner
Paul AUDET dit LAPOINTE and Marie-Caroline PLANTE 10 February 1846, Saint-Pierre-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Québec, Canada

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 Birth of Child
Zoé-Virginie LAPOINTE dite AUDETTE was born 27 April 1857, Saint-Hermas, Mirabel, Québec, 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.

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 Marriage of Child
Zoé-Virginie LAPOINTE dite AUDETTE married 6 October 1873, Gatineau, Québec, Canada (Pointe-Gatineau) (Touraine) (East Templeton) (West Templeton) to Calixte GALIPEAU

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.