Jean-Victor DESBOIS

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21 October 1819 , Bonaventure, Lower Canada

Died

23 June 1889 , Newport, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada

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Born: 21 October 1819 in Bonaventure, Lower Canada

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Jean-Victor married Flavie PROVOST 26 January 1847 in Perce, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Flavie PROVOST was born abt. 1828 in Québec Province, Canada (Quebec). Flavie died 3 March 1898 in Newport, Quebec, Canada.

Jean-Victor DESBOIS died 23 June 1889 in Newport, Le Rocher-Percé, Quebec, Canada.
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Jean-Victor DESBOIS married

Flavie PROVOST
Marriage date: 26 January 1847
Marriage place: Perce, Quebec, Canada

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Children of Jean-Victor DESBOIS and Flavie PROVOST

Remi DESBOIS

Born: abt. 1877, Gaspé, Québec, Canada
Died: abt. 1939,

Married: Alda RENAUD 20 October 1903 Place: Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada

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Birth — 1819
21 October 1819
Bonaventure, Lower Canada

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

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)

1847 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Victor DESBOIS and Flavie PROVOST 26 January 1847, Perce, Quebec, Canada

He was 27 years old.

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.