Prudent-Philemon LEMIEUX

(b. 3 April 1829 , Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada d. 18 April 1897 , Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada )

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Prudent-Philemon LEMIEUX was born 3 April 1829 in Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada

Prudent-Philemon LEMIEUX was the child of Ignace LEMIEUX and Marie Louise MORIN dite VALCOURT and the grandchild of: (paternal) Ignace LEMIEUX and Elisabeth-Victoire GUYON (maternal) Francois MORIN dit VALCOURT and Louise GENDREAU

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

Prudent-Philemon married Celina FORTIN 20 February 1871 in Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Celina FORTIN was born August 1854 in Montmorency, Quebec, Canada. Celina died 26 April 1901 in Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA. Celina was the child of George-Turias FORTIN and Marie-Flavie GAGNE.

Prudent-Philemon LEMIEUX died 18 April 1897 in Cap-St-Ignace, 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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Family and Children of Prudent-Philemon LEMIEUX

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Prudent-Philemon LEMIEUX married

Celina FORTIN-- Date: 20 February 1871 Place: Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada

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Celina FORTIN was the child of George-Turias FORTIN and Marie-Flavie GAGNE

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Children of Prudent-Philemon LEMIEUX and Celina FORTIN:

Joseph LEMIEUX (b.09/04/1882, Québec, Québec, Canada d. 12/14/1974, Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA)
m. Marie Roseanne Augustine ROY 19 May 1903 in Amesbury, Massachusetts, USA

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1829 Birth
3 April 1829
Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada

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.

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.

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.

1871 Marriage / Partner
Prudent-Philemon LEMIEUX and Celina FORTIN 20 February 1871, Cap-St-Ignace, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola)

He was 41 years old.

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)

1882 Birth of Child
Joseph LEMIEUX was born 09/04/1882, Québec, Québec, Canada (Quebec City)

Prudent-Philemon was 53 years old.

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)

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