Marie-Opportune PARENT

(b. 30 March 1808 , Montréal, Lower Canada d. 12 April 1885 , Montréal, Québec, Canada )

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Marie-Opportune PARENT was born 30 March 1808 in Montréal, Lower Canada

Marie-Opportune PARENT was the child of Michel PARENT and Marie-Madeleine ISABEL (ISABELLE) and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre PARENT and Marie-Veronique DROLET (maternal) Joseph-Marie ISABEL (ISABELLE) and Madeleine GAGNE

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

Marie-Opportune married Etienne ROGER 12 September 1826 in Saint-Martin, Laval, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Etienne ROGER was born 25 December 1805 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Etienne died 08 November 1880 in Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul). Etienne was the child of François ROGER and Therese CHARBONNEAU.

Marie-Opportune PARENT died 12 April 1885 in Montréal, 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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Marie-Opportune PARENT married

Etienne ROGER-- Date: 12 September 1826 Place: Saint-Martin, Laval, Lower Canada

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Etienne ROGER was the child of François ROGER and Therese CHARBONNEAU

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Children of Etienne ROGER and Marie-Opportune PARENT:

Octave-Gregoire ROGER (b.07 March 1835, Saint-Martin, Laval, Lower Canada d. 21 April 1897, Montréal, Québec, Canada )

Leon ROGER (b.abt. 1844, , Québec Province, Canada d. , )

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1808 Birth
30 March 1808
Montréal, 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)

1826 Marriage / Partner
Marie-Opportune PARENT and Etienne ROGER 12 September 1826, Saint-Martin, Laval, Québec, Canada

She was 18 years old.

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
Octave-Gregoire ROGER was born 07 March 1835, Saint-Martin, Laval, Québec, Canada

Marie-Opportune was 26 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

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.