Sophie DUBOIS

Born

11 May 1811 , La Prairie, Lower Canada

Died

18 May 1877 , Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

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Jean-Baptiste DUBOIS dit RONDEL Marie-Josephte GUIGNARD

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Born: 11 May 1811 in La Prairie, Lower Canada

Father: Jean-Baptiste DUBOIS dit RONDEL

Mother: Marie-Josephte GUIGNARD

Paternal grandparents: Jacques DUBOIS dit RONDEL , Marie-Catherine BABEU

Maternal grandparents: Joseph GUIGNARD , Angelique LARRIVÉE

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Sophie married Marc MAGAULT dit CLERMONT 9 October 1838 in La Prairie, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marc MAGAULT dit CLERMONT was born 25 April 1812 in La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité). Marc died 29 January 1882 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada. Marc was the child of Jean-Baptiste MAGAULT dit CLERMONT and Marie-Catherine RIEL.

Sophie DUBOIS died 18 May 1877 in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, 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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Sophie DUBOIS married

Marc MAGAULT dit CLERMONT
Marriage date: 9 October 1838
Marriage place: La Prairie, Lower Canada
Marc MAGAULT dit CLERMONT was the child of Jean-Baptiste MAGAULT dit CLERMONT and Marie-Catherine RIEL

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Children of Marc MAGAULT dit CLERMONT and Sophie DUBOIS

André MAGAULT dit CLERMONT

Born: 30 November 1843, Saint-Jacques, Canada East
Died: 28 March 1907, Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

Married: Marie-Odile NORMANDIN 22 August 1886 Place: Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur, Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1811
11 May 1811
La Prairie, 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 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1838 Marriage / Partner
Sophie DUBOIS and Marc MAGAULT dit CLERMONT 9 October 1838, La Prairie, Québec, Canada (St-Philippe) (St-Jean-François-Régis) (La Nativité)

She was 27 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)

1843 Birth of Child
André MAGAULT dit CLERMONT was born 30 November 1843, Saint-Jacques, Québec, Canada (Saint-Jacques-de-Montcalm) (Saint Jacques de l’Achigan)

Sophie was 32 years old.

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.