Georges PROULX

(b. 21 May 1824 , Nicolet, Lower Canada d. 4 September 1878 , L'Avenir, Québec, Canada )

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Georges PROULX was born 21 May 1824 in Nicolet, Lower Canada

Georges PROULX was the child of Louis-Joseph PROULX and Colombe BRASSARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Joseph PROULX and Genevieve CREVIER (maternal) Pierre BRASSARD and Marie-Antoinette PINARD

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Georges married Hermine (Honorine) MANSEAU 2 October 1855 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Hermine (Honorine) MANSEAU was born abt. 1839 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre). Hermine (Honorine) died 19 July 1918 in L'Avenir, Québec, Canada. Hermine (Honorine) was the child of Antoine MANSEAU and Geneviève LEMIRE.

Georges PROULX died 4 September 1878 in L'Avenir, 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.

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Georges PROULX married

Hermine (Honorine) MANSEAU-- Date: 2 October 1855 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East
Hermine (Honorine) MANSEAU was the child of Antoine MANSEAU and Geneviève LEMIRE

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Children of Georges PROULX and Hermine (Honorine) MANSEAU:

Malvina PROULX (b.4 July 1867, L'Avenir, Canada East d. 24 December 1900, L'Avenir, Québec, Canada)
m. Noel PELOQUIN 11 July 1887 in L'Avenir, Québec, Canada

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1824 Birth
21 May 1824
Nicolet, Lower Canada

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.

1855 Marriage / Partner
Georges PROULX and Hermine (Honorine) MANSEAU 2 October 1855, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

He was 31 years old.

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.