Marguerite HOULE

Born

30 January 1802 , Yamaska, Lower Canada

Died

3 May 1871 , Yamaska, Québec, Canada

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Joseph HOULE (PETRIN)Jeanne CARDIN dite LOISEAU

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Born: 30 January 1802 in Yamaska, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph HOULE (PETRIN)

Mother: Jeanne CARDIN dite LOISEAU

Paternal grandparents: Joseph HOULE dit PETRIN , Madeleine-Josephe PARENTEAU

Maternal grandparents: Jean-Baptiste LOISEAU dit CARDIN , Jeanne CARRÉ

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Marguerite married François VADNAIS 24 January 1820 in Yamaska, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
François VADNAIS was born 8 January 1798 in Saint-Cuthbert, Québec, Canada. François died 6 June 1881 in Saint-Théodore-d'Acton, Acton, Quebec, Canada. François was the child of François VADNAIS and Genevieve COULOMBE.

Marguerite HOULE died 3 May 1871 in Yamaska, 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
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Marguerite HOULE married

François VADNAIS
Marriage date: 24 January 1820
Marriage place: Yamaska, Lower Canada
François VADNAIS was the child of François VADNAIS and Genevieve COULOMBE

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Marie-Anne VADNAIS

Born: 6 May 1835, Yamaska, Lower Canada
Died: 17 October 1920, , Québec Province, Canada

Married: Norbert BERARD 13 August 1861 Place: Saint-Aimé, Québec, Canada (Massueville) (St-Aime)

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Birth — 1802
30 January 1802
Yamaska, 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 Marriage / Partner
Marguerite HOULE and François VADNAIS 24 January 1820, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

She was 17 years old.

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

1835 Birth of Child
Marie-Anne VADNAIS was born 6 May 1835, Yamaska, Québec, Canada (Saint-Michel-d'Yamaska)

Marguerite was 33 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.

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

1861 Marriage of Child
Marie-Anne VADNAIS married 13 August 1861, Saint-Aimé, Québec, Canada (Massueville) (St-Aime) to Norbert BERARD

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.