Joseph LAVALLÉE

Born

15 May 1784 , Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

16 February 1870 , Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, Québec, Canada

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Joseph LAVALLÉE Marie-Françoise PELOQUIN FÉLIX

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Born: 15 May 1784 in Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada

Father: Joseph LAVALLÉE

Mother: Marie-Françoise PELOQUIN FÉLIX

Paternal grandparents: Gérémie (Jérémie) Pierre LAVALLÉE , Élisabeth DESROSIERS DU TREMBLE

Maternal grandparents: Emmanuel PELOQUIN dit FELIX (FELIX-CREDY) , Marie-Marguerite LAVALLEE

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Joseph married Amable HUS COURNOYER 14 October 1805 in Sorel, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Amable HUS COURNOYER was born abt. 1774 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Amable was the child of Joseph HUS COURNOYER and Marie-Louise COUTURIER dite LABONTÉ.

Joseph LAVALLÉE died 16 February 1870 in Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel, 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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Joseph LAVALLÉE married

Amable HUS COURNOYER
Marriage date: 14 October 1805
Marriage place: Sorel, Lower Canada
Amable HUS COURNOYER was the child of Joseph HUS COURNOYER and Marie-Louise COUTURIER dite LABONTÉ

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Children of Joseph LAVALLÉE and Amable HUS COURNOYER

Angelique LAVALLEE

Born: 19 June 1817, Sorel, Lower Canada
Died: 19 January 1895, Saint-Robert, Québec, Canada

Married: Maxime HUS COURNOYER 26 July 1836 Place: Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

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Birth — 1784
15 May 1784
Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

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

1805 Marriage / Partner
Joseph LAVALLÉE and Amable HUS COURNOYER 14 October 1805, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

He was 21 years old.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1817 Birth of Child
Angelique LAVALLEE was born 19 June 1817, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre)

Joseph was 33 years old.

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

1836 Marriage of Child
Angelique LAVALLEE married 26 July 1836, Sorel, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre) to Maxime HUS COURNOYER

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.