Pierre LAVOIE

Born

6 February 1813 , Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada

Died

6 January 1887 , Isle-aux-Grues, Québec, Canada

Parents & Family of Pierre LAVOIE

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Born: 6 February 1813 in Cap-St-Ignace, Lower Canada

Parents of Pierre LAVOIE

Father

Pierre-Zacharie LAVOIE

Mother

Archange RODRIGUE

Grandparents of Pierre LAVOIE

Paternal grandparents

Pierre-Dominique LAVOIE Charlotte LANGLOIS dite ST-JEAN

Maternal grandparents

Charles-Pierre RODRIGUE Marie-Thérèse NORMAND

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

Pierre married Marie-Elisabeth VEZINA 23 July 1839 in Isle-aux-Grues, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Marie-Elisabeth VEZINA was born 10 December 1815 in Isle-aux-Grues, Lower Canada . Marie-Elisabeth died 1 May 1886 in Isle-aux-Grues, Québec, Canada . Marie-Elisabeth was the child of Pierre-Michel VEZINA and Elisabeth BOURGAULT.

Pierre LAVOIE died 6 January 1887 in Isle-aux-Grues, Québec, Canada .
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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Pierre LAVOIE

Pierre LAVOIE married

Marie-Elisabeth VEZINA
Marriage date: 23 July 1839
Marriage place: Isle-aux-Grues, Lower Canada
Marie-Elisabeth VEZINA was the child of Pierre-Michel VEZINA and Elisabeth BOURGAULT

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Pierre LAVOIE and Marie-Elisabeth VEZINA

Aurelie LAVOIE

Born: 1 April 1840, Isle-aux-Grues, Lower Canada
Died: 18 November 1902, Isle-aux-Grues, Québec, Canada

Married: Wilfred-Jeremie VEZINA 9 November 1865 Place: Isle-aux-Grues, Canada East

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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 — 1813
6 February 1813
Cap-St-Ignace, 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

1839 Marriage / Partner
Pierre LAVOIE and Marie-Elisabeth VEZINA 23 July 1839, Isle-aux-Grues, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine)

He was 26 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

1840 Birth of Child
Aurelie LAVOIE was born 1 April 1840, Isle-aux-Grues, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine)

Pierre was 27 years old.

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)

1865 Marriage of Child
Aurelie LAVOIE married 9 November 1865, Isle-aux-Grues, Canada East to Wilfred-Jeremie VEZINA

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.