Joseph MAJEAU

Born

7 April 1816 , L'Assomption, Lower Canada

Died

3 May 1899 , Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme, Lévis, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste-Elie MAJEAU Marie-Louise MARSAN

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Born: 7 April 1816 in L'Assomption, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste-Elie MAJEAU

Mother: Marie-Louise MARSAN

Paternal grandparents: Joseph MAGEAU , Therese BEAUPIED

Maternal grandparents: Louis MARSAN dit LAPIERRE , Marie-Amable VENNE

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Joseph married Justine COITOU dite ST JEAN 28 November 1837 in Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Justine COITOU dite ST JEAN was born 19 November 1818 in Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada. Justine died 30 January 1890 in Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme, Lévis, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme-de-Lauzon).

Joseph MAJEAU died 3 May 1899 in Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme, Lévis, 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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Joseph MAJEAU married

Justine COITOU dite ST JEAN
Marriage date: 28 November 1837
Marriage place: Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada

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Children of Joseph MAJEAU and Justine COITOU dite ST JEAN

Marie-Cleophee MAJEAU

Born: 5 June 1838, Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Lower Canada
Died: 29 April 1912, Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme, Lévis, Québec, Canada

Married: Toussaint EMOND 20 July 1858 Place: Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay)

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Birth — 1816
7 April 1816
L'Assomption, 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 - 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 Marriage / Partner
Joseph MAJEAU and Justine COITOU dite ST JEAN 28 November 1837, Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada

He was 21 years old.

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1838 Birth of Child
Marie-Cleophee MAJEAU was born 5 June 1838, Saint-Esprit, Montcalm, Québec, Canada

Joseph was 22 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

1858 Marriage of Child
Marie-Cleophee MAJEAU married 20 July 1858, Châteauguay, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joachim-de-Chateauguay) to Toussaint EMOND

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 - 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.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)

1890 Death of Spouse/Partner
Justine COITOU dite ST JEAN died 30 January 1890, Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme, Lévis, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme-de-Lauzon)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

Death — 1899
3 May 1899
Saint-Jean-Chrysostôme, Lévis, Québec, Canada
He died at the age of 83.

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