Antoine VANDAL

(b. 18 April 1785 , Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada d. 17 December 1870 , Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada )

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Antoine VANDAL was born 18 April 1785 in Sorel, Province of Québec, Canada

Antoine VANDAL was the child of Antoine VANDAL and Charlotte MANDEVILLE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jacques VANDAL and Antoinette BEAUGRAND dite CHAMPAGNE (maternal) Alexis MANDEVILLE and Marie-Françoise HUS MILET (MILLET)

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

Antoine married Angelique SAULTEAUX abt. 1805 in Rivière Rouge, Manitoba, Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Angelique SAULTEAUX was born abt. 1780 in Sawyer County, Wisconsin, USA. Angelique died 7 May 1863 in La Barriere, Manitoba, Canada.

Antoine VANDAL died 17 December 1870 in Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 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.

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Antoine VANDAL married

Angelique SAULTEAUX-- Date: abt. 1805 Place: Rivière Rouge, Manitoba, Canada

Children of Antoine VANDAL and Angelique SAULTEAUX:

Elisabeth Isabelle VANDAL (b.abt. 1809, St Boniface, Red River Settlement, Ruperts Land, Canada d. 27 May 1896, Ste Rose Du Lac, Manitoba, Canada)
m. Salomon Leon HAMELIN 6 April 1826

Antoine VANDAL (b.December 1809, Red River Settlement, Manitoba, Canada d. 25 August 1882, Montcalm, Manitoba, Canada)
m. Marguerite BERTHELET dite SAVOYARD 28 January 1834 in Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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1785 Birth
18 April 1785
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)

1809 Birth of Child
Antoine VANDAL was born December 1809, Red River Settlement, Manitoba, Canada

Antoine was 24 years old.

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

1834 Marriage of Child
Antoine VANDAL married 28 January 1834, Saint Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada to Marguerite BERTHELET dite SAVOYARD

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.

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

1863 Death of Spouse/Partner
Angelique SAULTEAUX died 7 May 1863, La Barriere, Manitoba, Canada

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.