Seraphine GRENIER

Born

4 September 1833 , Sorel, Lower Canada

Died

abt. 1869 , Sorel, Québec, Canada

Parents & Family of Seraphine GRENIER

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Born: 4 September 1833 in Sorel, Lower Canada

Parents of Seraphine GRENIER

Father

Joseph GRENIER

Mother

Elisabeth PAUL HUS

Grandparents of Seraphine GRENIER

Paternal grandparents

Francois GRENIER Madeleine PLOUFFE

Maternal grandparents

Francois PAUL HUS Marie-Louise BENOIT

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

Seraphine married Leon LAVALLÉE 9 July 1849 in Sorel, Canada East . Leon LAVALLÉE was born 2 May 1828 in Sorel, Lower Canada . Leon died 10 January 1897 in Sorel, Québec, Canada . Leon was the child of Antoine-François LAVALLEE and Judith DUFAULT.

Seraphine GRENIER died abt. 1869 in Sorel, Québec, Canada .
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Seraphine GRENIER

Seraphine GRENIER married

Leon LAVALLÉE
Marriage date: 9 July 1849
Marriage place: Sorel, Canada East
Leon LAVALLÉE was the child of Antoine-François LAVALLEE and Judith DUFAULT

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Children of Leon LAVALLÉE and Seraphine GRENIER

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Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1833
4 September 1833
Sorel, Lower Canada

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 Marriage / Partner
Seraphine GRENIER and Leon LAVALLÉE 9 July 1849, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

She was 15 years old.

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.