Joseph-William LANDRY

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abt. 1829 , Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada

Died

2 January 1889 , Québec Province, Canada

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Born: abt. 1829 in Saint-Cuthbert, Lower Canada

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Joseph-William married Marie Desiree COUTU 26 May 1862 in Berthierville, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie Desiree COUTU was born 23 August 1840 in Berthierville, Québec, Canada (Berthier-en-Haut) (Ste-Genevieve-de-Berthier). Marie Desiree died 10 January 1905 in Burrillville, Rhode Island, USA (Harrisville) (Pascoag) (Mapleville) (Oakland).

Joseph-William LANDRY died 2 January 1889 in Québec Province, Canada.

son of Pascal Landry and Marie Laprise

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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.

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

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Joseph-William LANDRY married

Marie Desiree COUTU
Marriage date: 26 May 1862
Marriage place: Berthierville, Canada East

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Children of Joseph-William LANDRY and Marie Desiree COUTU

Louis Henri LANDRY

Born: abt. 1863, Berthierville, Canada East
Died: abt. 1944, Uxbridge, Massachusetts, USA

Married: Angelina RONDEAU

Adolphus Henry LANDRY

Born: 12 June 1876, Burrillville, Rhode Island, USA
Died: 27 January 1960, North Miami Beach, Florida, USA

Married: Melina BOUCHER 18 October 1897 Place: Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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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

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

1862 Marriage / Partner
Joseph-William LANDRY and Marie Desiree COUTU 26 May 1862, Berthierville, Québec, Canada (Berthier-en-Haut) (Ste-Genevieve-de-Berthier)

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.