Jean-Baptiste HOUDE

(b. 4 October 1848 , Saint-Apollinaire, Canada East d. 27 December 1929 , Saint-Apollinaire, Québec, Canada )

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Jean-Baptiste HOUDE was born 4 October 1848 in Saint-Apollinaire, Canada East

Jean-Baptiste HOUDE was the child of Jean-Charles HOUDE and Marie-Angele BEDARD and the grandchild of: (paternal) Jean-Charles HOUDE and Marie-Charlotte DEMERS (maternal) Jean-Baptiste BEDARD and Angele CROTEAU

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Jean-Baptiste married Luce Victoire Alphonsine CAYER 16 October 1871 in St Apollinaire, Lotbiniere, Quebec, Canada . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Luce Victoire Alphonsine CAYER was born 19 December 1852 in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, Québec, Canada. Luce Victoire Alphonsine died 7 October 1898 in Dover, New Hampshire, USA. Luce Victoire Alphonsine was the child of Jean-Charles CAYER and Adelaide ROGNON dite LAROCHE.

Jean-Baptiste HOUDE died 27 December 1929 in Saint-Apollinaire, 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.
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Jean-Baptiste HOUDE married

Luce Victoire Alphonsine CAYER-- Date: 16 October 1871 Place: St Apollinaire, Lotbiniere, Quebec, Canada
Luce Victoire Alphonsine CAYER was the child of Jean-Charles CAYER and Adelaide ROGNON dite LAROCHE

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Children of Jean-Baptiste HOUDE and Luce Victoire Alphonsine CAYER:

Joseph Leger Victor HOUDE (b.15 November 1882, Saint-Apollinaire, Québec, Canada d. 13 December 1940, South Kingstown, Rhode Island, USA )
m. Marie Louise PELLETIER 18 November 1907 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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1848 Birth
4 October 1848
Saint-Apollinaire, Canada East

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.

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

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

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

1871 Marriage / Partner
Jean-Baptiste HOUDE and Luce Victoire Alphonsine CAYER 16 October 1871, St Apollinaire, Lotbiniere, Quebec, Canada

He was 23 years old.

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)

1882 Birth of Child
Joseph Leger Victor HOUDE was born 15 November 1882, Saint-Apollinaire, Québec, Canada

Jean-Baptiste was 34 years old.

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)

1891 - The zipper is invented (Whitcomb L. Judson, United States)

The motion picture camera is invented (Thomas Alva Edison, William K.L. Dickson, United States)

First Perforated Toilet Paper Roll is Patented

1891 - June 16 - John Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1892 - December 5 - John Sparrow David Thompson becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1894 - December 21 - Mackenzie Bowell becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - May 1 - Charles Tupper becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1896 - July 11 - Wilfrid Laurier becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1897 - Aspirin is invented (Felix Hoffmann (Bayer), Germany)

1898 Death of Spouse/Partner
Luce Victoire Alphonsine CAYER died 7 October 1898, Dover, New Hampshire, USA

1901 - King Camp Gillette and William Emery Nickerson invented the world's first disposable razor blade in 1901. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)

1901 - January 22 - Edward VII becomes King of England

1902 - July 17 - Willis Haviland Carrier designed the first modern air-conditioning system. (Buffalo, New York, USA)

1903 - The first engine-powered airplane is invented (Wilbur & Orville Wright, United States)

1906 - August 22 – The first Victor Victrola, a phonographic record player, was manufactured, revolutionizing the way people listened to music at home.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden made the first AM radio broadcast on December 24th. This event marked a significant advancement in radio technology, paving the way for the modern broadcasting industry.

1907-1908 - The electric washing machine is invented (Alva J. Fisher, United States)

1907 Marriage of Child
Joseph Leger Victor HOUDE married 18 November 1907, Providence, Rhode Island, USA to Marie Louise PELLETIER

1908 - First Model-T car is produced by Henry Ford (United States)

1910 - May 6 - George V becomes King of England

1911 - October 10 - Robert Borden becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1912 - April 15 - Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic

1913 - The assembly line is invented (Henry Ford, United States)

The bra is invented (Mary Phelps Jacob, United States)

1920 - July 10 - Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1921 - Charles Strite of Minnesota patents the pop-up toaster.

1921 - December 29 - William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes Prime Minister of Canada

1923 to 1927 - Television is invented (Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (Russia), Philo Taylor Farnsworth (United States))

1926 - June 29 - Arthur Meighen becomes Prime Minister of Canada