Josephte LAMOTHE

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29 June 1798 , Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

Died

14 March 1871 , St-Clet, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada

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Pierre LAMOTHE dit COCHON Genevieve MIGNEAULT (MIGNOT) (MIGNAULT)

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Born: 29 June 1798 in Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

Father: Pierre LAMOTHE dit COCHON

Mother: Genevieve MIGNEAULT (MIGNOT) (MIGNAULT)

Paternal grandparents: Paul COCHON (CAUCHON) dit LAMOTHE , Marie-Anne LEGARE

Maternal grandparents: Jean MIGNEAULT (MIGNOT) (MIGNAULT) , Marie-Louise BLAIS

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Josephte married Jean-Baptiste-Antoine BOURG (BOURQUE) 6 October 1818 in Montréal, Lower Canada . Jean-Baptiste-Antoine BOURG (BOURQUE) was born 19 August 1778 in Saint-Ours, Québec, Canada (Immaculée-Conception). Jean-Baptiste-Antoine died 11 August 1842 in Coteau-du-Lac, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-du-Coteau-du-Lac). Jean-Baptiste-Antoine was the child of Jacques BOURG and Marguerite CORMIER.

Josephte LAMOTHE died 14 March 1871 in St-Clet, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada.
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Josephte LAMOTHE married

Jean-Baptiste-Antoine BOURG (BOURQUE)
Marriage date: 6 October 1818
Marriage place: Montréal, Lower Canada

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Jean-Baptiste-Antoine BOURG (BOURQUE) was the child of Jacques BOURG and Marguerite CORMIER

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Birth — 1798
29 June 1798
Saint-Ours, Lower Canada

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.

1818 Marriage / Partner
Josephte LAMOTHE and Jean-Baptiste-Antoine BOURG (BOURQUE) 6 October 1818, Montréal, Québec, Canada (Sault-au-Récollet) (Côte-St-Michel) (Côte-St-Paul)

She was 20 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

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1842 Death of Spouse/Partner
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine BOURG (BOURQUE) died 11 August 1842, Coteau-du-Lac, Québec, Canada (Saint-Ignace-du-Coteau-du-Lac)

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

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.