Thérèse-Marie GIROUARD

(b. 21 October 1786 , Saint-Ours, Province of Québec, Canada d. 16 February 1873 , Saint-Jude, Québec, Canada )

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Thérèse-Marie GIROUARD was born 21 October 1786 in Saint-Ours, Province of Québec, Canada

Thérèse-Marie GIROUARD was the child of Jean Baptiste GIROUARD and Angelique BLOUIN and the grandchild of: (paternal) Pierre GIROUARD and Theotiste DUPUIS (maternal) Joseph BLOUIN and Madeleine TURCOT (TURCOTTE)

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Thérèse-Marie married Joseph CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE 22 September 1806 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Joseph CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE was born 7 September 1780 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception). Joseph died 24 December 1866 in Saint-Barnabé-Sud, St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Saint-Barnabé). Joseph was the child of François-Louis CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE and Thérèse CHEVALIER.

Thérèse-Marie GIROUARD died 16 February 1873 in Saint-Jude, 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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Thérèse-Marie GIROUARD married

Joseph CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE-- Date: 22 September 1806 Place: Saint-Ours, Lower Canada
Joseph CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE was the child of François-Louis CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE and Thérèse CHEVALIER

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Children of Joseph CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE and Thérèse-Marie GIROUARD:

Edouard CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE (b.31 December 1818, Saint-Ours, Lower Canada d. 28 January 1861, Saint-Barnabé-Sud, St-Hyacinthe, Canada East )
m. Catherine BLANCHET (BLANCHETTE) 14 January 1840 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur)

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1786 Birth
21 October 1786
Saint-Ours, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

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

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

1806 Marriage / Partner
Thérèse-Marie GIROUARD and Joseph CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE 22 September 1806, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

She was 19 years old.

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.

1818 Birth of Child
Edouard CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE was born 31 December 1818, Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception)

Thérèse-Marie was 32 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)

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
Edouard CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE married 14 January 1840, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire, Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur) to Catherine BLANCHET (BLANCHETTE)

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

1861 Death of Child
Edouard CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE died 28 January 1861, Saint-Barnabé-Sud, St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Saint-Barnabé)

Thérèse-Marie was 74 years old.

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1866 Death of Spouse/Partner
Joseph CHAPDELAINE dit LARIVIÈRE died 24 December 1866, Saint-Barnabé-Sud, St-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada (Saint-Barnabé)

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.