Jean-Baptiste BOURQUE

Born

13 October 1802 , Beauceville, Lower Canada

Died

21 March 1874 , Beauceville, Québec, Canada

Jean-Baptiste married Angele BUSQUE 19 October 1830 in Beauceville, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Angele BUSQUE was born 21 January 1810 in Beauceville, Lower Canada . Angele died 24 December 1895 in Beauceville, Québec, Canada . Angele was the child of Jean-Baptiste BUSQUE and Marie-Josephte POULIN .

Parents & Family of Jean-Baptiste BOURQUE

Parents of Jean-Baptiste BOURQUE

Father

Paul BOURG (BOURQUE)

Mother

Marguerite BERNARD

Grandparents of Jean-Baptiste BOURQUE

Paternal grandparents

Alexandre BOURG Marie HÉBERT

Maternal grandparents

Godefroy BERNARD Marguerite PAGEAU (PAGEOT)

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Jean-Baptiste BOURQUE

Jean-Baptiste BOURQUE married

Angele BUSQUE
Marriage date: 19 October 1830
Marriage place: Beauceville, Lower Canada
Angele BUSQUE was the child of Jean-Baptiste BUSQUE and Marie-Josephte POULIN

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Jean-Baptiste BOURQUE and Angele BUSQUE

Nathalie BOURQUE

Born: 10 July 1837, Beauceville, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Pierre FECTEAU 7 October 1862 Place: Beauceville, Canada East

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1802
13 October 1802
Beauceville, 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
Jean-Baptiste BOURQUE and Angele BUSQUE 19 October 1830, Beauceville, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Beauce)

He was 28 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

1837 Birth of Child
Nathalie BOURQUE was born 10 July 1837, Beauceville, Québec, Canada (Saint-François-de-Beauce)

Jean-Baptiste was 34 years old.

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

1862 Marriage of Child
Nathalie BOURQUE married 7 October 1862, Beauceville, Canada East to Pierre FECTEAU

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.