Ignace MEUNIER

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9 December 1816 , Marieville, Rouville, Lower Canada

Died

2 October 1897 , St Paul d'Abbotsford, Quebec, Canada

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Ignace MEUNIER dit LAPIERRE Desanges VEILLEUX

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Born: 9 December 1816 in Marieville, Rouville, Lower Canada

Father: Ignace MEUNIER dit LAPIERRE

Mother: Desanges VEILLEUX

Paternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste MEUNIER dit LAPIERRE , Marie-Josephe DANSEREAU

Maternal grandparents: Pierre-Noel VEILLEUX , Françoise FORTIER

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Ignace married Emilie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME 15 February 1836 in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Emilie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME was born abt. 1815 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Emilie died abt. 1903 Emilie was the child of Pascal GABORIAULT dit LAPALME and Marie-Charles-Charlotte BERTRAND.

Ignace MEUNIER died 2 October 1897 in St Paul d'Abbotsford, Quebec, Canada.
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Emilie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME
Marriage date: 15 February 1836
Marriage place: Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Lower Canada
Emilie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME was the child of Pascal GABORIAULT dit LAPALME and Marie-Charles-Charlotte BERTRAND

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Children of Ignace MEUNIER and Emilie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME

Joseph MEUNIER

Born: 1 October 1852, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: 21 February 1936, Granby, Québec, Canada

Married: Mathilde CHARRON 9 April 1877

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Birth — 1816
9 December 1816
Marieville, Rouville, 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 Marriage / Partner
Ignace MEUNIER and Emilie GABORIAULT dite LAPALME 15 February 1836, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada (Saint-Hilaire)

He was 19 years old.

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.

1852 Birth of Child
Joseph MEUNIER was born 1 October 1852, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Ignace was 35 years old.

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.