Sophie LAVOIE

(b. 17 August 1817 , Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada d. 5 July 1868 , Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )

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Sophie LAVOIE was born 17 August 1817 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

Sophie LAVOIE was the child of Jerome LAVOIE and Marie LEMIEUX and the grandchild of: (paternal) René LAVOIE and Marie-Agathe TREMBLAY (maternal) Joseph LEMIEUX and Marie-Felicite GAGNÉ

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

Sophie married Jeremie MENARD 4 September 1838 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Jeremie MENARD was born 28 July 1814 in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul). Jeremie died 21 July 1891 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay). Jeremie was the child of Pierre MENARD and Marie-Angélique GIRARD.

Sophie LAVOIE died 5 July 1868 in Chicoutimi, 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.

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Family and Children of Sophie LAVOIE

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Sophie LAVOIE married

Jeremie MENARD-- Date: 4 September 1838 Place: Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada
Jeremie MENARD was the child of Pierre MENARD and Marie-Angélique GIRARD

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Children of Jeremie MENARD and Sophie LAVOIE:

Seraphin MENARD (b.6 January 1844, Baie-Saint-Paul, Canada East d. 1 November 1928, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada )
m. Demerise TREMBLAY 30 January 1865 in Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay)

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1817 Birth
17 August 1817
Baie-Saint-Paul, Lower Canada

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

1838 Marriage / Partner
Sophie LAVOIE and Jeremie MENARD 4 September 1838, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

She was 21 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

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)

1844 Birth of Child
Seraphin MENARD was born 6 January 1844, Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec, Canada (Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul-de-Baie-Saint-Paul)

Sophie was 26 years old.

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
Seraphin MENARD married 30 January 1865, Chicoutimi, Québec, Canada (Arvida) (Saguenay) to Demerise TREMBLAY

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.