Napoleon LAROCHELLE

Born

14 July 1831 , Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Died

23 July 1897 , Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Québec, Canada

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Joseph LAROCHELLE dit GAUTRON Angelique GUAY

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Born: 14 July 1831 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

Father: Joseph LAROCHELLE dit GAUTRON

Mother: Angelique GUAY

Paternal grandparents: Joseph GAUTRON dit LAROCHELLE , Josephe EMOND

Maternal grandparents: Joseph GUAY , Genevieve GUAY

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Napoleon married Clemence MARIER 8 January 1850 in Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Clemence MARIER was born 19 May 1833 in Iberville, Québec, Canada (Saint-Athanase-de-Bleury). Clemence died 12 February 1917 in N-D-des-Anges-de-Stanbridge, Quebec, Canada. Clemence was the child of Pierre MARIER and Marie-Celeste LAREAU.

Napoleon LAROCHELLE died 23 July 1897 in Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, 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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Napoleon LAROCHELLE married

Clemence MARIER
Marriage date: 8 January 1850
Marriage place: Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Québec, Canada
Clemence MARIER was the child of Pierre MARIER and Marie-Celeste LAREAU

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Children of Napoleon LAROCHELLE and Clemence MARIER

Paul LAROCHELLE

Born: 10 June 1852, Bonsecours, Canada East
Died: abt. 1926, , Nebraska, USA

Married: Martha HAUVER 12 February 1877

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Birth — 1831
14 July 1831
Saint-Hyacinthe, Lower Canada

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)

1850 Marriage / Partner
Napoleon LAROCHELLE and Clemence MARIER 8 January 1850, Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge, Québec, Canada

He was 18 years old.

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

1852 Birth of Child
Paul LAROCHELLE was born 10 June 1852, Bonsecours, Québec, Canada (Stukely-Nord) (Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours-de-Stukely)

Napoleon was 20 years old.

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.