Marie DUHAMEL

(b. 1 August 1798 , Saint-Ours, Lower Canada d. 22 February 1868 , Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada )

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Marie DUHAMEL was born 1 August 1798 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

Marie DUHAMEL was the child of Louis DUHAMEL and Modeste GIROUARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre DUHAMEL and Marie-Marguerite DUPRÉ (maternal) Pierre GIROUARD and Theotiste DUPUIS

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

Marie married Joseph CORMIER 16 September 1816 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph CORMIER was born abt. 1787 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Joseph died 5 November 1836 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception). Joseph was the child of François CORMIER and Madeleine PAPILLON.

Marie DUHAMEL died 22 February 1868 in Saint-Ours, 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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Marie DUHAMEL married

Joseph CORMIER-- Date: 16 September 1816 Place: Saint-Ours, Lower Canada
Joseph CORMIER was the child of François CORMIER and Madeleine PAPILLON

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Children of Joseph CORMIER and Marie DUHAMEL:

Marie CORMIER (b.15 May 1819, Saint-Ours, Lower Canada d. 21 May 1900, St-Elphège, Yamaska, Quebec, Canada)
m. Pierre-Marcel DEBLOIS dit GREGOIRE 25 October 1836 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

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1798 Birth
1 August 1798
Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

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

1816 Marriage / Partner
Marie DUHAMEL and Joseph CORMIER 16 September 1816, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

She was 18 years old.

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.

1819 Birth of Child
Marie CORMIER was born 15 May 1819, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

Marie was 20 years old.

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

1836 Marriage of Child
Marie CORMIER married 25 October 1836, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception) to Pierre-Marcel DEBLOIS dit GREGOIRE

1836 Death of Spouse/Partner
Joseph CORMIER died 5 November 1836, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

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.

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.