Françoise CASTONGUAY

Born

5 August 1794 , Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

Died

24 August 1876 , Rimouski, Québec, Canada

Parents & Family of Françoise CASTONGUAY

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Born: 5 August 1794 in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

Parents of Françoise CASTONGUAY

Father

Charles CASTONGUAY

Mother

Marie-Louise GUYON (DION)

Grandparents of Françoise CASTONGUAY

Paternal grandparents

Pierre CASTONGUAY Marie-Anne PELLETIER

Maternal grandparents

Joseph-Marie GUYON (DION) Ellisabeth LEMIEUX

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Françoise married Joseph OUELLET 2 February 1818 in L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada . Joseph OUELLET was born 30 September 1776 in Kamouraska, Province of Québec, Canada . Joseph died 7 August 1854 in Kamouraska, Canada East . Joseph was the child of Maurice OUELLET and Angélique HAMOND (HAMMOND) (ÉMOND).

Françoise CASTONGUAY died 24 August 1876 in Rimouski, Québec, Canada .
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Françoise CASTONGUAY

Françoise CASTONGUAY married

Joseph OUELLET
Marriage date: 2 February 1818
Marriage place: L'Isle-Verte, Lower Canada
Joseph OUELLET was the child of Maurice OUELLET and Angélique HAMOND (HAMMOND) (ÉMOND)

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

Children of Joseph OUELLET and Françoise CASTONGUAY

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Québec Place Names Through History

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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 — 1794
5 August 1794
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Lower Canada

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 Marriage / Partner
Françoise CASTONGUAY and Joseph OUELLET 2 February 1818, L'Isle-Verte, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l'Isle-Verte)

She was 23 years old.

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 - 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.

1854 Death of Spouse/Partner
Joseph OUELLET died 7 August 1854, Kamouraska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Louis) (Saint-Alexandre)

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.