Malvina LAFONTAINE

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Died

6 January 1890 , La Présentation, Québec, Canada

Malvina married Joseph L'HEREUX 12 October 1868 in Beloeil, Québec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph L'HEREUX was born 2 September 1844 in Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu, Canada East.

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Spouses, Marriages & Children of Malvina LAFONTAINE

Malvina LAFONTAINE married

Joseph L'HEREUX
Marriage date: 12 October 1868
Marriage place: Beloeil, Québec, Canada

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Joseph L'HEREUX and Malvina LAFONTAINE

Oglore L'HEUREUX

Born: abt. 1888, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: July 1974, Thompson, Connecticut, USA

Married: Wilfred RICHARD 9 July 1906 Place: Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA

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1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

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Birth — 1850
7 July 1850
Beloeil, Canada East

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.

1867 - July 1 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1868 Marriage / Partner
Malvina LAFONTAINE and Joseph L'HEREUX 12 October 1868, Beloeil, Québec, Canada (Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil)

She was 18 years old.

1868 - The typewriter is invented (Christopher Latham Sholes, United States)

Thomas Edison applies for his first patent, the electric vote recorder.

1873 - November 7 - Alexander Mackenzie becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1876 - March 7 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a United States patent for an invention he calls the telephone.

1877 - November 21 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1878 - October 17 - John A. Macdonald becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1879 - Incandescent light bulb is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, United States)

1884 - Photographic film is invented (George Eastman, United States)

The first gravity roller coaster amusement ride (LeMarcus A. Thompson, United States)

1885 - November 7 - Canadian Pacific railroad completed (Montreal to Vancouver)

1887 - June 23 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada, creating that nation's first national park, Banff National Park.

1889 - The automobile is invented (Gottlieb Daimler, Germany)