Jean-Baptiste PLOURDE

(b. 13 November 1791 , Saint-André, Kamouraska, Lower Canada d. 24 March 1873 , Nouvelle, Cte Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste PLOURDE was born 13 November 1791 in Saint-André, Kamouraska, Lower Canada

Jean-Baptiste PLOURDE was the child of Pierre PLOURDE and Marie-Dorothee LAVOIE and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre-François PLOURDE and Louise-Josephte HUDON dite BEAULIEU (maternal) Joseph LAVOIE and Marie-Madeleine MICHAUD

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

Jean-Baptiste married Marie Marguerite HARQUAIL 27 July 1819 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie Marguerite HARQUAIL was born 10 July 1800 in Eel River, Restigouche co., New Brunswick, Canada. Marie Marguerite died 14 January 1867 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer). Marie Marguerite was the child of Edouard HARQUAIL and Angélique-Rosalie ROBICHAUD.

Jean-Baptiste PLOURDE died 24 March 1873 in Nouvelle, Cte Bonaventure, Quebec, 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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Jean-Baptiste PLOURDE married

Marie Marguerite HARQUAIL-- Date: 27 July 1819 Place: Carleton-sur-Mer, Lower Canada
Marie Marguerite HARQUAIL was the child of Edouard HARQUAIL and Angélique-Rosalie ROBICHAUD

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Children of Jean-Baptiste PLOURDE and Marie Marguerite HARQUAIL:

Charlotte PLOURDE (b.abt. 1821, Miguasha, Bonaventure, Quebec, Canada d. 6 September 1854, , Québec Province, Canada )
m. Joseph DUGAS 26 July 1840 in Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer)

Jean Baptiste PLOURDE (b.2 November 1825, Eel River, New Brunswick, Canada d. 16 February 1905, Eel River, New Brunswick, Canada)
m. Genevieve "Jane" DOUCET 20 November 1849 in , New Brunswick, Canada

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1791 Birth
13 November 1791
Saint-André, Kamouraska, Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

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.

1819 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste PLOURDE and Marie Marguerite HARQUAIL 27 July 1819, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer)

He was 27 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)

1825 Birth of Child
Jean Baptiste PLOURDE was born 2 November 1825, Eel River, New Brunswick, Canada

Jean-Baptiste was 33 years old.

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

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1840 Marriage of Child
Charlotte PLOURDE married 26 July 1840, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer) to Joseph DUGAS

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)

1849 Marriage of Child
Jean Baptiste PLOURDE married 20 November 1849, , New Brunswick, Canada to Genevieve "Jane" DOUCET

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1854 Death of Child
Charlotte PLOURDE died 6 September 1854, , Québec Province, Canada (Quebec)

Jean-Baptiste was 62 years old.

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.

1867 Death of Spouse/Partner
Marie Marguerite HARQUAIL died 14 January 1867, Carleton-sur-Mer, Québec, Canada (Saint-Joseph-de-Carleton) (St-Omer)